The recent merger between BRAC University and the Institute of Governance Studies (IGS), prompted the BIGD team to design and launch a new institutional website.
Maximising digital outreach in Bangladesh
24/10/2014
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CEDA reaches a wider community through radio
20/08/2014
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CEDA highlights one of three radio programmes co-produced with CORAPE and Anaité Vergas. The programmes helped CEDA to influence the wider community to engage in the policy processes, and also enabled CEDA staff to learn how to create policy-related communications in a radio format.
Grupo FARO: Facebook facilitates internal communication
19/08/2014
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The PEC Programme facilitated the analysis of internal communication strategies and resulted in the decision of using a Facebook closed group for supporting the organizations’ internal communication.
TTI PEC virtual write shop: Writing news releases that make an impact
14/08/2014
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The Think Tank Initiative’s Policy Engagement and Communications Program is hosting a Virtual Write Shop on “Writing News Releases that Make an Impact.”
ASIES: Enhancing audio-visual communication
11/08/2014
Vanesa Weyrauch shares a presentation she gave during a webinar aimed at think tank researchers in ASIES to provide them with practical tools and resources which encourage innovative communication of the organisation’s research.
ASIES: Social Network Strategy
11/08/2014
Guides & Tutorials
Developing a social network strategy is key to understanding and more effectively engaging with key audiences and making better use of social media tools. In this post, Latin American think tank ASIES shares a guide they produced to help them manage their social networks more strategically.
Q&A: Kudzai Makombe on Social Media (Regional Director, IPS Africa)
08/07/2014
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Betty Paton talks to the Regional Director of the Inter-Press Service (IPS) Africa, Kudzai Makombe, on her thoughts about the rise of social media and the smartphone across the continent.
Q&A: David Girling on social media (Director of Research Communication, UEA)
17/06/2014
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We love to gather new opinions and insights into approaches to research uptake and dissemination. This week, I was fortunate to grab a Q&A with David Girling on social media.
R2A Webinar Series: Twitter – Lessons learnt from managing @DFID_Research
16/06/2014
Guides & Tutorials
Join us for our first Research to Action free Webinar! Guest speaker, Social Media Consultant Betty Paton, will be presenting on her experience managing the @DFID_Research twitter account for the Department for International Development from 2010 to 2013.
Why low tech is sometimes better for virtual learning among African think tanks
10/06/2014
Blog Posts
David Olson discusses lessons learned from organizing the second peer virtual learning session for African think tanks in the Think Tank Policy Engagement and Communications Program.
IFTTT: What is it and why should you be using it?
02/06/2014
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IFTTT is a tool created to make your technology communicate better by using customised ‘recipes’. In this post, Ingvild Storm Stiland explores the ways in which this tool could revolutionise your day-to-day online working practices.
Kwame Owino on why he blogs for the Daily Nation, Kenya’s largest circulation paper
29/04/2014
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Kwame Owino is the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Economic Affairs – Kenya. In this Q&A interview, he discusses why he writes a weekly blog column in the Daily Nation.
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
Ajoy Datta
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