Antonella Pastore

Blogging in real life: an interview with...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in ICT-KM Program, Social Media on 17 November 2009 | No Comments

Peter Casier, the relentless mastermind behind Blogtips.org, interviewed Enrica and myself about our Website revamp. The history, the team, the decisions, the challenges… it’s all in there. And it was great to have the opportunity to reflect on the project and how we went about it. So enjoy...

Social media for science: an interview w...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in Featured Articles, ICT-KM Program, Interviews, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Sharing in Research, Social Media on 7 October 2009 | 7 Comments

During the recent World Congress of Agroforestry (WCA2009) in Nairobi, Kenya, the Congress reporting team plunged headlong into social media in a bid to maximize the event’s communications, which was achieved via the Congress blog, the @icraf Twitter account, pictures on Flickr and bookmarks on...

The Social Web at WCA2009: monitoring th...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in ICT-KM Program, Social Media on 26 August 2009 | 5 Comments

Chantal and Vanessa tweeting from the plenary on Day 1, WCA2009 We’re past midway through the Congress, it’s end of Day 3. The WCA2009 blog is up and running with a variety of posts, lots of photos are available on the ICRAF Flickr photostream, and the @icraf on Twitter has 300 tweets from the plenary...

Tweeting live from WCA2009 opening addre...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in ICT-KM Program, Social Media on 24 August 2009 | No Comments

Follow the Congress opening keynotes on @icraf. We’re covering the keynotes (have a look at the speakers’ lineup) in turn. Connection is not helping us: working off mobile phone internet. It’s exciting, though. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Laureate, Green Belt Movement, closed her session...

Social media at the 2nd World Congress o...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in Events, ICT-KM Program, Social Media on 22 August 2009 | 1 Comment

The 2nd World Congress on Agroforestry starts Monday and preparations are hectic here at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi. The reporting team is getting ready to make some buzz about the Congress. We’ll do our best to leverage social media to increase reach, participation and sharing during...

Good to see you…...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in CG-Map, CGXchange, ICT-KM Program on 20 August 2009 | 5 Comments

… at final last. This morning I was at ILRI Headquarters in Nairobi to meet with a few people that I had only met virtually, via email or skype or phone. With some we carry out common work so it’s a steady relationship. It was so good to finally have the opportunity to meet them in person. First,...

Watching blog traffic: the top 5 lessons...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in ICT-KM Program, Social Media on 12 August 2009 | 7 Comments

Source: IMDb - © 2003 - Disney Enterprises, Inc. / Pixar Animation Studios When I started drafting this post about our traffic trends for the first two quarters of 2009, I thought I’d call it: Six months of social media and how are we doing? But, as I was writing it, I realized that the story...

More science blogs on the block...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in CG-Map, ICT-KM Program, Social Media on 8 July 2009 | 4 Comments

Three CGIAR-related blogs we’ve come across recently: Rural Climate Exchange: Connecting agricultural and environmental science to the climate change agenda “The Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and their partners generate a wealth...

Social Media: how do you know it's ...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in CGXchange, ICT-KM Program, KS Course, KS Toolkit, KS Workshop, Knowledge Sharing, Social Media Tools Series on 4 May 2009 | No Comments

If you are responsible for communications in your organization, you will know the value of having a clear strategy and a way of evaluating it. This post will discuss some social media tools and give you ideas on how to include social media appropriately in your communications plan and measure its effectiveness. ...

Enabling the mobile Web beyond the phat ...

Posted by Antonella Pastore in CGXchange, ICT-KM Program on 30 March 2009 | No Comments

Yesterday, TechCrunch published a guest post by Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products, with the title: Follow the Mobile User. Kudos to the editor for combining in one short title the three very keywords that made all ring bells go off in my monday-morning-challenged...