== Retention, Publicity, Teams, Help Publicise BOINC. Discussion 2. ==

This discussion was along similar lines to the earlier discussion with a similar heading.

 * Retaining users is as important as recruitment of new users.
 * Gathering info about why users stop.
 * Skype contacts to help.
 * Research reasons why users leave projects.
 * Ask new users how things are going?
 * Tooting horn v Buzz Marketing.
 * Old news Results/New angles, making it hard to get in.
 * BOINC logos and slogan might help with publicity; “Do you BOINC?”
 * Possible selective marketing to top users.
 * More tools to publicise BOINC.

 * Frequent news posts, revise project pages for this.
 * Separate Technical news. Science news/ Project news.
 * Problems with sharing news. Update RSS feed.
 * Get better data and stats on retention. Analyse it, deduce best practice, and experiment with best approaches.
 * Get companies to join BOINC (Very challenging, security!).
 * Monthly BOINC newsletter, Default ticked to “Opt in”. Example ISGTW.
 * Do publicity, list as many ways as possible on one page with links to more detailed ways for each method.
 * New opportunities, Myspace, Facebook, Web buttons.
 * Enthusiastic users will help if they have easy access to lots of ideas.
 * Learn from other grid computing; Folding@home.