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Category Archives: Social media
The great wiki migration
Wikispaces is closing this September. The 80 wikis we have hosted on the platform will soon become unavailable there. We have thus secured the services of a tech firm, CiviHosting, to migrate our wikis from Wikispaces to a new platform. CiviHosting is a web development and hosting company with experience migrating Wikispaces wikis. They have … Continue reading
A one-stop shop doesn’t always work: Using different communication and sharing platforms at ILRI
Many colleagues are wondering why we use so many platforms at ILRI, for our projects or for corporate reasons. Continue reading
Agriculture / CCAFS / ILRIComms / Innovation Systems / Knowledge and Information / Opinion Piece / Social learning / Social media
Social learning – is there any other kind?
We’ve been exploring social learning in climate change for three years in the Climate Change and Social Learning (CCSL) project. But in the world wide web, social learning is much more closely related to social media. What to make of it? Continue reading
Agriculture / Communications / Ethiopia / Event / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Social media
AgKnowledge innovation process share fair: Processing the process of all processes
An AgKnowledge Innovation Process Share Fair recently took place (25-26 May 2015) at the Addis Ababa campus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) to discuss this central message. The fair focused on what too many people tend to forget often: the process (of innovation) and the need for process literacy. 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
Taking our communications to the next level? – Reflections from the Farming First and IFPRI workshop
Liya Dejene reflects on a one-day workshop for communicators organized by Farming First and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) prior to IFPRI’s 2020 conference on “Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Continue reading
Using ILRI wikis to communicate, collaborate and co-evolve
ILRI has been using wikis since at least 2009 and they have been used extensively in projects such as the Nile Basin Development Challenge, Africa RISING, and the Livestock and Fish research program. Continue reading
A4NH / AHH / ILRI / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Open access / Presentation / Social media
Workshop on discoverability of African scholarship features ILRI communication approaches
On 10-11 March 2014, Tezira Lore shared some examples of ways that ILRI has integrated social media in its communication strategy towards enhancing the discoverability of research outputs. Continue reading
Africa / East Africa / Event / ICT / ILRIComms / Kenya / Knowledge and Information / Social media
ICT and social media help engage youth in agriculture
Among many platforms and apps developed, my attention caught by a platform called Mkulima (a young farmer helping a young farmer) which is a social media platform to engage young farmers. Continue reading
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management 