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What are you doing for viral growth? Like, why should I tell my friends to sign up? Have you thought about setting up some type of system to automatically crea
by gee_totes 13y ago
What are you doing for viral growth? Like, why should I tell my friends to sign up?
Have you thought about setting up some type of system to automatically create profiles for people? You could scan in the front page of a printed thesis (where it lists the advisers), extract the names, and then add pages if they don't exist for those professors and PHD people. Then, when a PHD student googled themselves, the phdtree link would show up.
- phdtree 13y agoYes, we are actually thinking about that idea. The problem is, how to encourage more user participation?
- gee_totes 13y agoNot sure. Maybe a fully-fleshed out profile could be visually appealing? Or the website could announce that the profile is only 80% complete (like how OKCupid and LinkedIn do it). Or a big "claim my profile" link?
- gee_totes 13y agoI have another idea. What about finding a small group of colleges that compete with each other, filling out the profiles for those phd people, and then writing a blog post about it and sending it to the colleges? Maybe the colleges will use it in marketing material or a blog post. Free publicity for everyone involved! Then, whomever is reading the college's blog because they care about that kind of stuff will be compelled to claim their profile.