On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@au-kbc.org> wrote:
On Friday 25 June 2010 11:47:36 Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
I've set up Google analytics for the site I think the site advertisement needs work.
if we want people to revisit our site, we need to have things happening on it - if nothing changes, there is no point in visiting it again. CFP is there - but no news on the talks submitted. Not even a tweet.
We'll remedy this once we get the logo. You're right though. What the heck is the point of visiting a site when there's nothing changing on it. However, I'm interested in new people coming to the site rather than old visitors coming again.
Over a period of years we have found that community conferences in India follow a different flow from those in the US. There registration of delegates takes place after talk registration - here we have found that the best way is to open delegate registration at the first stage itself and widely publicise the list of people who say they are going to attend - this itself makes people revisit the site to see who is coming.
This makes sense. shall we open up the registrations?
As for early bird registration, it makes sense in the US where there is a substantial saving in early bird - and no sense here where the saving is a token one. So open the the delegate registration, publicise the talks submitted and permit discussion of the same on site - buzz will be generated. And make the landing page either the list of delegates or the submitted talks.
Perfect! Anand/Abhishek, How many of these are implementable on the site right away? The twitter integration should be possible right? As for registrations, how soon can we open them up? Thanks -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in