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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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WCG emails are always welcome and it's good to see them being used to communicate important news to members. The latest example being Now your Android smartphone or tablet can help advance humanitarian research!
----------------------------------------Two suggestions: 1. Careful thought needs to be given to the composition of the "Subject" line in the email. In the latest one it was "World Community Grid: Now on Android!". In a busy (OutLook) inbox this was displayed as "World Community Grid: Now...". Thus the impact of "Android" was lost. Putting "World Community Grid" in the subject line in full wastes important space and duplicates information already contained in the "Sender" details. Abbreviate to "WCG: Now on Android" is much more effective. 2. On behalf of an active team, which seeks to nurture its' members to maximise their crunching for WCG, we would very much appreciate a "My Team" box with a Go to My Team statistics link being added to the standard WCG email format. |
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ErikaT
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Post Count: 912 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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jonnieb-uk,
Thank you for these suggestions...we will take them in to account when we send out the next email (for the Subject comment) and when we redesign the email template (for the Team stats comment). Thanks! ErikaT |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Regarding the link to the user's team stats page, if the user doesn't belong to a team, use a link to the find a team page perhaps? I would suspect, and hope, that a user who joins a team would be more likely to remain an active cruncher!
----------------------------------------A bit more elaborate change, for users who belong to a team, would be to include a link to their team's current thread in the Teams forum. I would think that that would require a change to the team info page where the team captain would be responsible for including a link to the team's current thread in the Teams forum (like the link to any team home page). Perhaps that link should only be included in the emails if the thread has had a post in say the last 90 days? |
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ErikaT
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Post Count: 912 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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keithhenry,
Thank you for your suggestions, as well...when we work on updating the email template, we will take that into consideration. Thanks! ErikaT |
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