Concrete Tactics Organized by Audience

Faculty

• Public Sakai Web Site
• IT Times Spring 2006
• Faculty Profiles
• Short Testimonials Podcasts and Transcripts
• Advertise the Faculty Mentoring Faculty program
• Promote excitement about Breeze to open the door for Sakai.
• Focus groups
• Pilot Projects
• Spotlight effective professor worksites to inspire others.
  • FMFP: We don't want to be forced to join. Just let us view the sites, visit, steal code, etc.
• Advertise IT Express
• Organize a "Sakai Day" (open house, with presentations, demos, interactions with faculty participants, access to computers, etc.)
• Faculty Classes

Students

• Public Sakai Web Site
• Hyper Text Spring 2006
• Summer Advising
• Facebook as an advertising tool
  • 10,000 Flyers = $5/day
  • 20,000 Flyers = $10/day
  • 30,000 Flyers = $15/day
  • 40,000 Flyers = $20/day
  • Also consider a macro to add "Sakai" as a "Friend" to all UC Davis students.
• MU Display Boards
• Contribute to the Sakai page on DavisWiki
• Focus groups
• Create a MySpace-entity for Sakai after public site is released.
  **Also consider a macro to add Sakai as a friend to all students.
• Involve the Davis Honors Challenge
• Advertise IT Express
• Organize a "Sakai Day"
• Student Questions

Researchers.

• Public Sakai Web Site
• Focus groups
• Advertise IT Express
• Organize a "Sakai Research Day"
• Network with Vet Med and Med to encourage acadaemic research uses of Sakai.

Departments

• Public Sakai Web Site
• Provide open opportunities for representatives to experiment with the system.
• Identify Departments and provide Demonstrations/Demos.
• Design a PowerPoint presentation that can be customized for each department.
• Focus groups
• Advertise IT Express
• Locate/identify e-learning/collaborative-friendly departments and get them on board first.
• Develop departmental liaisons who can sell the vision to and train their own faculty. This includes working closely with TIF and TSP members in academic departments, as well as with the FMFP.