UCSF Profiles: incentive and promotion plans and results for this research networking tool
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Incentivize use of UCSF Profiles
1. Incentivize Usage & Understand Your Audience
Leslie Yuan*, Katja Reuter, Eric Meeks, Anirvan Chatterjee, Brian Turner, Maninder
Kahlon
*Presenter: Director, Web Products, Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), University of
California, San Francisco
Presented at AMIA, Oct 2011
2. We launched UCSF Profiles,
a Research Networking Tool for UCSF
Will they
Now what? come now
that weve
built it?
7. During 3 weeks of launch promotion,
we worked with 6 key communicators
across UCSF
Sept 17 Oct 5, 2010
8. UCSF UCSF UCSF Academic Affairs
News Office Media, Doc. & Mail Faculty Development Day
UCSF UCSF UCSF
EVC Office Library SOM UCSF Community
9. UCSF UCSF UCSF Academic Affairs
News Office Media, Doc. & Mail Faculty Development Day
UCSF UCSF UCSF
EVC Office Library SOM UCSF Community
10. UCSF UCSF UCSF Academic Affairs
News Office Media, Doc. & Mail Faculty Development Day
UCSF UCSF UCSF
EVC Office Library SOM UCSF Community
Direct Mailing to all ~2500 in UCSF Profiles,
promoting:
- UCSF Profiles: How it works.
- Sweepstakes
- CTSI Services Overview
11. UCSF Library Website
~32,000 pageviews/month
+ Newsletter
~8000 recipients
UCSF UCSF UCSF Academic Affairs
News Office Media, Doc. & Mail Faculty Development Day
UCSF UCSF UCSF
EVC Office Library SOM UCSF Community
12. UCSF UCSF UCSF Academic Affairs
News Office Media, Doc. & Mail Faculty Development Day
UCSF UCSF UCSF
EVC Office Library SOM UCSF Community
~130 attendees at the
luncheon/kiosk session
~50-80 attendees at each
workshop
13. News Link on SOM
Home page
~ 10,000 15,000 visits/day
+ Newsletter
~ 2000 faculty recipients
~ 5800 staff and academics
UCSF UCSF UCSF Academic Affairs
News Office Media, Doc. & Mail Faculty Development Day
UCSF UCSF UCSF
EVC Office Library SOM UCSF Community
15. UCSF.edu Faculty Sweepstakes SOM
Provost Email Direct Mailing
Article Dev. Day Deadline eNewsletter
UCSF Library HP CTSI Newsletter UCSF Library
2 visits/Sep20th eNewsletter
43
UCSF SOM HP visits/Sep28th
46 visits/Sep20th
1 visit = 1 session: users returning to the site within 30 minutes are counted as 1 visit.
16. Sustained Increase 5 Months after Initial Promotion
Number of Visits/Day
09/20/2010 03/10/2011
Dates
17. Traffic = Engagement
UCSF.edu Faculty Sweepstakes SOM
Provost Email Direct Mailing
Article Dev. Day Deadline eNewsletter
UCSF Library HP CTSI Newsletter UCSF Library
2 visits/Sep20th eNewsletter
43 visits/Sep28th
UCSF SOM HP
46 visits/Sep20th
1 visit = 1 session: Users returning to the site within 30 minutes are counted as 1 visit.
22. UCSF Profiles Everywhere!
Integrated into
campus directory: one
of the most heavily
trafficked sites at
UCSF
Place links
where ever
possible
UCSF.edu
News
Cross link
names to
UCSF Profile
24. Share the Wealth
... integrate UCSF Profiles data with other
major UCSF Department and Division websites.
Sharing 700+ campus
UCSF Profiles profiles updated
automatically
Data from UCSF
Profiles
26. Find the Vertical Targets
Targeted talks and
emails to address
specific groups and
sweet spots
26
27. Push out Relevant Info coming soon
Send emails
to people
when theres
action!
27
28. Where are we now?
3,840 Profiles in the system, with
88,000+ publications
28
29. Steady growth in usage
5,000+ Visits per week
130,000 Unique Visitors
371,000 Page Views
29
30. Who Edited their Profile since Launch
Sep 2010-March 2011
% of population
who edited their profile
(65)
(146)
(197)
(243)
(96)
(4)
Note: Total edited Profiles = 781 (20%)
32. We Used Multiple Strategies Over Time
Marketing and Outreach
Approaches
Vertical
Approaches
32
33. Top 5+ List
1. Leadership buy-in
2. Pre-populate
3. SEO (and use your
analytics!)
4. Friends and partners
5. Consistent messaging
34. To the Virtual Home team at CTSI, UCSF
especially to Katja Reuter, Anirvan Chatterjee, Mini Kahlon
Thanks To Our Friends and Partners:
Lisa Cisneros, Director of Web Communications, UCSF News Office
Jeff Bluestone, Exec. Vice Chancellor and Provost, UCSF EVC Office
Gail Persily, Director Education, Public Service, UCSF Library
Leslie Kleinberg, Web Coordinator, UCSF Library
Sarah Paris, Director of Communications, UCSF School of Medicine
Sarah Zins, UCSF Academic Affairs
Judy Flannery, Marco Sanchez, Reggie Sparks, UCSF Media, Doc. & Mail
Questions? Contact: leslie.yuan@ucsf.edu
Editor's Notes
Formally launched in Aug 2010,Just over a year ago This was after about a 10 month beta period, filled with presentations across campus to high level leadership to garner support, awareness, understanding, buy in
Engagement / Curation, where a person logs in and actually edits or contributes information onlinein this case, it would info about themselves (on their own profile) one big benefit of the Profiles product is automatic pre-population of researcher profiles with demog and publication data so when folks log in, they would likely see quite a bit of information already there not like starting from a blank page
PrintOnlineSweepstakes giving away an iPad for adding a Narrative
Ucsf.edu - the main ucsf web property - getting over half a million page views a month News Article on the home page
Buy in from the Exe VCSent an email announcing UCSF Profiles to 8000 people across campus
Created a direct mail piece that was sent to everyone in the system who had a profile at the time about 2500 individuals -- overview -- sweepstakes
Got on the agenda of UCSF Annual Faculty Development day, presented at workshops and had demos during lunch
News link on the home page of the UCSF School of Medicine web site the largest of the 4 schools Plus the School of Med sends out a newsletter to faculty, staff and other academics with a plug announcing the product
Tracked the traffic back with Google analytics, staggered the various promotions over time to see if we could see individual effects of each promotion
And heres what we saw .. By far the biggest impact was the Email from the Exec VC for Research
And we were happy to see sustained traffic 5 months after that initial 3 week period where the avg number of visits per weekday doubled
BUT . Traffic definitely does not equal engagement The red line shows the number of contributors against the traffic stats
Plotting the number of edited profiles over a longer period of time showed a nice steep adoption rate that levels off
In more detail, looking at specific behavior of editing your own profile people tended to do more than the minimum required for that sweepstakes entry --
But we wanted and did more!
We are on a mission to make UCSF Profiles ubiquitous across campus
We've made these changes to our profile pages:Improved headingsImproved page titleAdded more external links to alternate user profilesFacilitated addition of more keyword-rich narrative textAdded semantic microformats data
1000 visits per day on weekdays Web analytics help us evaluate how the site is being used, find gaps, and measure improvements.We look at pages (home, search results, profiles), audiences (on-campus, off-campus), referrers (Google, UCSF.edu, etc.), interactions (bounce rate, page depth).
Used a lot of strategies over time, continue to work through new ones to again, make it ubiquitous