Promotional Materials for F@H

[sekramer10]

If I want to promote F@H are there available promotional materials such as posters, stickers, advertisements, and such?

Thanks,
Stephen

[iero]

Bump, would like some sort of forum banner too!

[JimboPalmer]

Call me cynical, but Folding@Home is the product of Biochemistry Majors, not Marketing Majors.

Their Marketing skills are not stressed in any phase of their life.

[ajm]

https://teespring.com/stores/foldingathome?page=1

[Joe_H]

There are some graphics and other items available, I don' have current links. I did send a message to a group member who may be able to give your some links.

[Anton Thynell]

Hello! Thanks for poking me Joe_H,
So what we have today is this media kit:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
If you create something that you want to donate to us you can email me at anton@foldingathome.org

What that what you were looking for?

[sekramer10]

Yes these products look pretty good. What I was thinking though was like a poster I could put up at local stores that says something like: "Join the World's Largest Supercomputer with Your Computers at Home and Work and Save the World!" to get someone's attention that normally wouldn't even have a clue what the colored blobs and Folding@Home are about at all. I'm talking about completely science illiterate people, the other hundreds of millions of people that have computers that could be working on these problems for humanity. How would you convince such a person to install this software on their computer? 1. They are skeptical! VERY skeptical! You have to convince them on their terms. I tried with my local neighborhood bulletin board and didn't get much response, but it seems to me it should be a No-Brainer, that every computer produced should have F@H pre-installed on it and it runs without users even knowing it's there. It should have been announced on CNN every day what you guys were doing! No offense but you need something bigger than the company logo to advertise what you're doing!

[bruce]

This discussion diverged from the original topic. I've split it. The new topic is now here:Subject: Thoughts on optimizing the assignment process

[sekramer10]

@ajm

FYI I ordered some things from the teespring shop, I don't know if you're involved with the store, but I was disappointed in the mask. It doesn't have a nose wire, and it doesn't have the pocket inside for a filter. Its not a good mask design functionally, but I'm wearing as a cover over another mask. I think you should source a better mask design, I recommend producing sevrrsl different styles but all with better functional qualities.

[ajm]

Thank you for the feedback! I'm not associated in any way with that offering or with FAH (apart from folding on my system), though, I just found that page online.
I think it should be addressed to Anton Thynell, who is chairman of the Communication Advisory Board and Head of Communication for FAH: https://foldingathome.org/communication-advisory-board/
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=23796

[ericmonroes]

That is really interesting promotional materials. Thanks. I researched and found Belkins for b2b leads the research. When a salesperson calls up a list of potential clients they are trying to determine if they are someone that will be interested in what you have to offer. If you do not have a way to measure whether or not a person is even likely to buy your product or service, you are leaving a huge opening for other people. This is why many organizations use lead tracking software.

[SJBreier]

A flyer pdf such as what they have at BOINC would be good. I would like to take promotional material with me to my Teaching job and my Library system, but I am not willing to pay for it. There should be a link to promotional material on the FAH home page.

[muziqaz]

A flyer pdf such as what they have at BOINC would be good. I would like to take promotional material with me to my Teaching job and my Library system, but I am not willing to pay for it. There should be a link to promotional material on the FAH home page.

FAH is a community. Any user with sufficient skills and time, can create any marketing material they want. Researchers are biochemistry researchers and not PR majors

[SJBreier]

A flyer pdf such as what they have at BOINC would be good. I would like to take promotional material with me to my Teaching job and my Library system, but I am not willing to pay for it. There should be a link to promotional material on the FAH home page.

FAH is a community. Any user with sufficient skills and time, can create any marketing material they want. Researchers are biochemistry researchers and not PR majors

I'll see what I can put together.
Biochenistry researchers may not be PR people, but that shouldn't stop them from paying a vist to the PR or Art department and recommending this as a project for them. They could even post a FAH PR design contest, with the winner getting a link to their flyer on the FAH page.

[muziqaz]

The amount of work researchers have to do for their own field is insane. I wouldn't expect them to be doing any extracurricular activities.