{"id":933,"date":"2012-07-17T14:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/dmptool\/?p=87"},"modified":"2013-05-15T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:07:08","slug":"the-medium-is-the-message-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/dmptool-content\/the-medium-is-the-message-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medium is the Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 17, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Week 6: A Move Towards Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brief Recap:<\/strong><\/p>\n

After last week’s mid-point review, it became clear that I need to really focus on marketing, especially now that the user survey is drafted, and sent out.\u00a0 A quick update on that side…I have now sent out the survey to 8 people total.\u00a0 At the review, there was talk of posting the survey on this blog, or sending out the survey en masse to everyone who has used the tool in order to get quantifiable data.<\/p>\n

My ideal would be that if every one of these 8 people returns the survey within the week, I can make changes to the survey next week and then we take it from there in terms of disseminating wider.\u00a0 However, if our participants are are not able to get the survey back to us this quickly, as I’m sure they are very busy.. should we think about plan B? Further thoughts on that?<\/p>\n

Marketing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moving towards marketing… I have decided to focus on the NSF biology template (NSF-BIO).\u00a0 Thanks to Perry Willet, we found out that since October 2011, the template has been used 339 times. In order to make a nice round and concrete goal, I have decided to focus on breaking 400 as my goal for the duration of this internship. \u00a0 NSF’s DEB (Environmental Biology) has a dedline set for August 2, which means a huge influx of new and return users will be scrambling to get their DMPs in.\u00a0 I need to come up with a message and the medium quickly!<\/p>\n

Brainstorm yesterday yielded the following key ideas and concepts:<\/p>\n

Message:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– I thought about what researchers and their students need out of the DMPtool:<\/p>\n

– efficiency (time saving)
\n-accuracy (answering all of the questions correctly)
\n-clarity (in making the questions more clear, and helping to make the researcher’s answer clear)
\n-effectiveness (in being awarded the grant)<\/p>\n

I decided I want to stay away from “help” or “guidelines” I feel like too much people are getting emails blasts and seeing flyers with the words “get extra help” as the main focus and I think this is not the message we want to send.<\/p>\n

I started conceptualizing the DMPtool as the “Turbo Tax” for hte DMP… obviously we can’t use that language…but its a step-by-step, one-stop, beacon of light through the confusing forest that is the DMP…correct?<\/p>\n

Medium<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Though emails are often piled high and then subsequently deleted… I think an email blast would be a useful device.<\/p>\n

– Flyers (posted in biology departments for participating institutions): both virtual and physical<\/p>\n

– Blog post…. on the DMP blog, and on my blog, DataONE blog?, ESIP Twitter feed?\/blog?<\/p>\n

– Endorsement from major organizations?\u00a0 I was able to send out an email on the OBFS list-serv letting subscribers know that the tool exists… perhaps to remind them that the deadline for DEB is coming up and the DMP tool can be of assistance?<\/p>\n

I am currently working on crafting a flyer…. to get the brain juices flowin’, let me know if you have any ideas! Will send soon!<\/p>\n

Thanks All!<\/p>\n

-r<\/p>\n

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July 17, 2012 Week 6: A Move Towards Marketing Brief Recap: After last week’s mid-point review, it became clear that I need to really focus on marketing, especially now that the user survey is drafted, and sent out.\u00a0 A quick update on that side…I have now sent out the survey Continue reading The Medium is the Message<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notebooks.dataone.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}