Publicity

[agbarnett]

Should we get publicity for the meeting via a blog or newspaper article? On the plus side, this would help show that this is a serious issue with national support. On the negative side it may scare away some attendees who would prefer to keep the issue "in-house".

Should we get support from REWARD? Approach Paul Glasziou about this.

Other places to advertise:

• ANZSTAT mailing list - don't bother now it's a sell-out
• Twitter, done on 12 December: https://twitter.com/aidybarnett/status/1074530616454987776
• LinkedIn, done on 12 December

[VBOz]

I think a Conversation piece would be good - but suggest wait until after NHMRC meeting at end of November. Just one thought - will "crisis" scare people away - there is a reason why REWARD uses positive terminology, rather than waste...

[agbarnett]

Event is now sold-out! 100 tickets gone!! So we need to scale back on advertising. We will have an extra +20 tickets for no shows and there will likely be people who cancel their tickets.

[VBOz]

If it’s free you probably want to have a waiting list - and or oversubscribe it a bit. There are always quite a few no shows for free events...

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[agbarnett]

I would like to write-up the day for a blog for the LSE impact blog. This would be a brief summary of what ideas were presented and what policies we focused on. Hopefully this will be a nice way of starting to promote the outcomes more widely.

[agbarnett]

Some nice text from this paper that we might use: "It is only after we all understand what the problems are and what solutions might look like that working together toward a collective solution becomes possible."

[agbarnett]

We need a hashtag for Twitter #researchqualityQUT #ImproveResearchQUT?

[SuzanneDixon-Suen]

If not too late to provide input here (I did a quick search and couldn't see that these hashtags had been used yet for promotion) - my thought is that it might be useful if the hashtag made the meeting sound more broadly relevant (improving Australian research, not just QUT research)? How about #AusResearchQualityQUT or #ImproveAustralianResearchQUT?

[SuzanneDixon-Suen]

And I think a hashtag including the word "improve/improving" would be good (more informative, and focusing on the outcome we want).

[agbarnett]

The recent NHMRC meeting used #valueinresearch18. The hashtag #improvingscience does get used, but not a lot; so we could use that and be fairly sure that there would not any conflicting traffic. There is an [https://evidencesynthesishackathon.com](Evidence Synthesis Hackathon) in Sydney on the same day, so we should probably avoid anything with "evidence".

Perhaps just the simple #improveresearch?

[SuzanneDixon-Suen]

I think #improveresearch sounds great.

[agbarnett]

Great, we will go with #improveresearch. I will close this issue now as the publicity has been done.