Talk:User group meeting agenda & minutes 28 May 2008

Involving more people in the user group meeting, not just the managers.

This was mentioned on 21 May, and it seems like it could work. But it can't just be all at once. What is needed is a way to break it in, where users would present things at the meetings, and not just the managers.

It might be best to start by asking if a user has something they would like to present something about that they have been doing in/related to the wiki. Once we had one or two, maybe a third week with something like that, try to up it to two user presentations, and so forth, until all that the managers need to do is give updates on system issues and other 'administrivia' related to the site, along with news items they need to share with us on the project generally. What does everyone think of that? JamesAnderson 16:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Turning lookers into users. How do we accomplish that, how do we make the case for them?

What I'm finding is there are alot of people interested in the wiki, and we're getting alot of hits. Probably ten visits for every one registered user. And even among the registered users, there are only a handful that are actively adding content. That's not totally bad, because many users will eventually find something useful in their research that they will want to share with others that no one knew about before, and add things then.

The forums are getting alot of hits from guests. Sometimes now as many as fifteen are on at any given time. How do we make a case for them to join up and post? Having a sizeable user base is what is going to drive the forums, as well as the wiki, towards the intended goal. Any ideas on both? JamesAnderson 16:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)