• Background info about "Viral"
• Background about the Tiki software
• Why
• Ideas
  • Who to connect? Tiki users by
    • Geography
    • Language
    • Common interest
    • Use Cases
  • How to connect?
    • Live Chat
    • Forums, etc
    • Local meeting
    • Microblogging
• Reporting back to the mothership
• Share translations
• What else?
• Tiki community members expressing support
  • Ad serving
• Other ideas
• Related links
• Related links

• Alistair Croll's presention on Viral marketing (link to slides soon I hope). Alistair switches from French to English at the 3rd minute.
• What Is Your Most Valuable Business Asset? Tiki is a free source community project (and not a business) so read this in this light but the idea is the same.

Tiki is downloaded over 8000 times a month. There are probably even more (no way to know) installs via Fantastico installer (or others). Tiki is used in tens of thousands of web sites/projects/communities/companies. And many more are used behind the Firewall. Again, we have no reliable way to know.

Yet, only a tiny fraction of these installations result in active contributions to the Tiki community. How can we increase this? If we increase from .01% to .03% (for example), we just tripled the size of the community!

We already have a way for people to register their Tiki powered site to tikiwiki.org (not sure how well it works). While people may want to see others at the early stages, they may not want to share at first because the site is not ready. They should be reminded periodically.

A first step is the new "version check" added to 1.9.9 So Tiki admins are now informed via their admin panel when their Tiki install needs an upgrade.

What else could we do? (Everything would be optional)

Things should be peer-to-peer and scalable. Keep in mind that some people are responsible for many Tiki installations AND some Tiki installations would have several users which would be interested/interesting for viral initiatives.

• To grow the community
• For users to help each other
• To facilitate the creation of local Tiki user groups which are positive assets to their local open knowledge / free source software community.

Geography

Think http://geourl.org/
Tiki installs can enter a geolocalisation and can find out about other Tiki installs/admins within their area, and to encourage the formation of local user groups. Let's make a map of Tiki users to help support Tiki Local User Groups

Language

Tiki is translated in 30+ languages.

Common interest

Have topics/tags/keywords/categories for Tiki-powered sites and permit users to connect with related/similar sites/users. Maybe offer an automagic webring module?

• Stéphane Daury suggests Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML)
• Lorinc brought up Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities, or SIOC

Use Cases

There are over 30 Use Cases for Tiki (and people often use a Tiki for more than 1 use case. Community members could connect with people which share a Use Case.

Live Chat

http://live.tiki.org or http://irc.tiki.org

Forums, etc

Forums, wiki pages, etc.

Local meeting

If someone organizes a local Tiki user group, it should appear in the Tiki admin panel of all people within x km.

Microblogging

OpenMicroBlogging

• Since 1.9.10, Tiki instances check with tw.o for news of new releases
• Reporting errors (to tikiwiki.org) system (like Firefox Talkback)
• optional reporting of anonymized usage stats & patterns (which features are used, how many accounts, etc)

If you make a translation, have a one-click procedure to share back this translation. Related: Translation branching strategy and Translation Server

It was noted at the www.Blitzweekend.com

• To be successful, Tiki needs to be easier to use. Done in Tiki3 and Tiki4
• Older fashion better promotion via "powered by Tiki" (instead of the obtrusive one at the top) Done in Tiki3

How could Tiki users be invited to vote for Tiki in awards like the ones monitored by the Communications Team? This could be a box fed by RSS in tiki-admin.php?

• http://pascal.vanhecke.info/2007/11/21/making-money-with-adsense-without-annoying-the-community-wordpresscom/

Have something like planet Tiki where we aggregate blogs from various community members.

http://www.epolitics.com/2009/01/14/what-does-viral-mean/

Update
For the month April 2009, 37% of incoming links to http://tikiwiki.org were from http://support.mozilla.com. This is obviously due to the "Powered by Tiki" link at the bottom of every SUMO page. This represents a huge potential mindshare for Tiki.

What I (ricks99) propose:

1. Update tiki-bot_bar.tpl to include:
   
   tiki-bot_bar.tpl
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   {if $prefs.feature_bot_bar_power_by_tw ne 'n'}
    {tr}Powered by{/tr} The website you were viewing somehow display the originating URL uses Tiki to power its content. 
    Tiki is.... etc. 
    
   
   

2. For high profile site (such as SUMO) we could a specific page detailing why that particular organization selected Tiki.
3. On info.tw.o, enable the If page does not exist, display similar page option. This way, referrals from http://support.mozilla.com will go directly to the http://info.tiki.org/Powered+http://support.mozilla.com page, but a referral from http://someotherdomain.com will simply go to http://info.tiki.org/Powered

What are your ideas/comments/suggestions?

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