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Publicize VIVO - In addition to regular meetings with primary stakeholders, materials can be posted or mailed to those with potential interest. Marketing materials are listed listed here.
Hold Training Sessions - Training sessions are essential to community engagement. Don't be shy about offering training early and often. Not only is training a great way to meet and talk to users, announcing training makes people ask, "What's VIVO?" and it makes your team look more responsive to users needs.Training sessions can demonstrate not only how to login, enter data and navigate but also show which kinds of questions can be answered by your VIVO. When your VIVO aggregates data from other systems, training explains to users how to update the data on their profile.
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Hold User Meetings - User meetings are a good way to receive feedback from your VIVO and to tweak design and structure according to local needs. Users can be defined as end-user/searchers or as those who contribute data. Ideally a good part of your data will be imported into your VIVO automatically, in bulk or from an institutional source rather than manually entered. Therefore it might be useful to include not only end users who edit their personal profiles, but data providers who can answer questions about where the data comes from and how it might better be filtered or displayed. Another group who might be interested in user meetings is anyone interested or active in semantic web technology since VIVO uses linked data/RDF.
See also: VIVO Community resources.Pages