This week, ILRI’s Board of Trustees approved two policies to guide our future efforts: ILRI policy on open access and the ILRI policy on research data management and sharing Continue reading
Category Archives: ILRIComms
Need support for meetings? How ILRI’s engagement and collaboration team can assist
Everyone organizes or attends meetings all the time. But the vast majority of these are under-performing, under-delivering and leave us sooner empty than energized. The Engagement and Collaboration team of the ILRI communication and knowledge management unit can turn these meetings into successful, productive, long-lasting milestones. Here’s how. Continue reading
Dead beat meetings danger zone: Bring facilitation to the rescue!
How many meeting have you been to this week, month, year? How many of them left you feeling drained and under-utilized? Bring a facilitator as the answer to this dreadful ‘deadbeat meeting zone’. Continue reading
Capacity Strengthening / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / PIM / Social media / Training
Extending the use of social and multimedia in Somaliland’s IGAD Sheikh Technical and Veterinary School
Earlier this month, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)’s Communications and Knowledge Management (CKM) team led a five-day Communications and Knowledge Sharing training workshop with research and teaching staff at the IGAD Sheikh Technical Veterinary School and Reference Centre (ISTVS) in Somaliland. Continue reading
Overcoming the dangers of PowerPoint recitals
A lot of events end up being ‘Death-by-PowerPoint’ executions, by design and default. ILRI CKM support much more interactive events than those. But even with a PowerpPoint recital, a lot can be done to improve how they are run. This post presents such ideas, drawing from a recent example. Continue reading
Africa / Event / ILRI / ILRIComms / IPP / Knowledge and Information / South Africa / Southern Africa
Setting up a joint CGIAR exhibition booth at ‘Celebrating FARA’ in South Africa
These are highlights and lessons learnt from an event of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) known as ‘Celebrating FARA’, which was held 26-28 November 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Continue reading
What ILRI’s visitors are reading and viewing in 2014
Like our sister CGIAR centres, ILRI’s research publishing is now very diverse spanning images, video, posters, podcasts, blogposts, tweets, extension leaflets and much more. What are the most-read or viewed in the past year? We are lucky that all the channels we use provide metrics and stats of various sorts. Continue reading
ILRI comms – engagement and collaboration team under the microscope
Introducing the work of ILRI’s engagement and collaboration team in the communications and KM group. Continue reading
Open access; open facilitation: One week, two good ideas
This week is ‘Open Access Week’ with lots of activities happening worldwide. A good week to celebrate the freedom of information to circulate. This week is also ‘International Facilitation Week’; also a good opportunity to wonder how open facilitation helps knowledge circulate just as openly… Continue reading
Africa / Event / ILRIComms / LIVESTOCKFISH / PIM / Value chains
Creative (graphic) facilitation to support a dairy value chain seminar
The intention of the organizers of the ‘African Dairy Seminar’ (21-24 September 2014) was, from the start, to organize a ‘different kind of event’, realizing that a lot of workshops are run in a rather standard kind of way. The difference this time? Good content and questions, a good mix of participants, and useful (graphic) facilitation – with all that this encompasses… Continue reading
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