Stories in the latest newsletter: Reinventing Agricultural Science Finding the Right Pathway Rice Science in the Digital Age Social Media Kick-off at CIAT Knowledge Sharing: Chapter Two Comes to a Close Social Media Workshop 2: Don’t Get Left Behind Social Media Tools Blog Series: And Then There...

You Mean Unfinished is Good? Yes! In the very recently released final Institutional KS Project report, one of the lessons I am sharing is the one about Facilitation: Facilitate: We are not experts, but facilitators for research for development. Hence, the effort to cultivate networks and relationships...

Social media workshop evaluation We, the workshop facilitators invited participants to review the activities through comments on the workshop platform, as well as through an online survey. We have set up surveys for all the workshops in the past. We did our own facilitator debrief as well. Here are some...

The web site is not the community: it’s the people The second and last call of the social media workshop was about strategies. How do we use social media tools effectively? How do we choose the tools according to our user groups, bandwidth constraints, and organisational culture? How do we plan...

The Challenge of introducing new tools: About attitudes and preferences Today we received some fundamental questions about social media practices. Getting social media into use is indeed a crucial issue and we got one question about possible ways to achieve staff adoption and involvement. I wrote this...

The 2nd Online Social Media workshop is well on its way, with the first week having gone by. Participants had their first tele-con session, organized on Skype and held on the 27th of May in two sessions. Telecon session B saw 14 enthusiastic participants raring to go: Helen Gillman, Margaret McEwan,...

This morning we had our first conference call with 14 social media workshop participants. Nancy's clock notes from the call We went around the clock (see the method described in our KS Toolkit http://www.kstoolkit.org/Teleconference+Clock) to have a chance to introduce us quickly and share the type...

After a successful pilot online event (See blog posts about the event), the CGIAR, through its ICT-KM Program, is pleased to offer an online Social Media Workshop from May 25 to June 12 2009. “Social media is using the Internet to instantly collaborate, share information, and have a conversation...