Transcript communications & knowledge sharing

communications
& knowledge sharing
Global Impact Study
Impact Indicators Workshop
Montpellier, France
March 2010
Christine Prefontaine
session goals
• share our strategy: outline role of
researchers in communications &
knowledge sharing
• get feedback & ideas from the group
• ensure everyone comfortable creating
updates & coming to Christine for help
• focus now on website, later on creating
publications
we’ll cover…
• overall approach
• selected tools & tactics
• a few practical tips
approach
communication goals
• position the project as a source of
rigorous, reliable research
• produce a consistent flow of information
about project activities and outputs
• make it easy for others to use and build
on our work
• create resources that can be used to
influence policy, practice, program
design, and investment decisions
open research
• privileging public communication
• working transparently public, named authorship
• using a creative commons license that
makes it easy for others to build on our
work for research outputs & communications content only, not raw data
over-arching strategy
• embed knowledge-sharing
& communications people closest to the work are the
best suited to document it
• get the basics right leaving traces, producing
documenting the project’s evolution and milestones, sharing internally
• create materials for others to use
• communicator as facilitator & curator
setting up and maintaining systems, supporting researchers,
highlighting “best of” project content, packaging and promoting
key findings
language
• communication materials will be
produced in english
• french, spanish, portuguese versions of
basic project information
• website in english, no language switcher
• others will localize to reach influentials
internal audiences
• research partners (research working
group, country-based researchers)
• project sponsors
• TASCHA team
internal sharing
• given our distributed approach we need
mechanisms to share internally
• adopt practice to read and publicly
comment on each other’s updates
external audiences
• library & telecentre communities
(practitioners, program designers)
• academic community
• funders & policymakers
selected tools & tactics
public project updates
• progress update once per quarter
• research output update one per intermediate output
• event update once per event
decision point: peer review
• researchers post interim content
(reports, working papers) directly,
no quality check
• there will be a review process for final
reports
static: basic about info
dynamic: categorized, tagged, featured
home page of website
follow, re-tweet!
quarterly e-newsletter
• “push” communication tool designed to
increase awareness and interest
• TASCHA team selects the top four or
five updates to feature in the newsletter
• title & teaser to entice people to go to
website to learn more
• micro-updates, latest publications
images & video
• flickr.com/groups/globalimpactstudy
(must request to join)
• metadata: descriptive title, tags with
"globalimpactstudy", photographer,
location, date, link to your URL
• need IRB approval
internal tools
• Dgroup list to broadcast messages to
research partners
• PBwiki for internal logistics
• Redmine for database development
and maintenance
• executive committee space on Global
Libraries toolkit (document repository)
• contacts database (CRM)
publications
• working papers interim documents with authoring institution
branding + plus standard global impact branding elements
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research reports final reports from individual components
instruments & methods TBD
final project report big analysis piece
advocacy materials
editing & formatting
• guidelines provided online but no
editorial or formatting support for
working papers or research reports
• TASCHA to package final project report,
instruments, advocacy materials
posting an update
custom URL
tags
teaser
category
Christine here to…
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answer questions
help you set up your account
help you post an update
create content about this event
[email protected]