The Global Guide to Research Impact
19/08/2014
Blog Posts
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.
14/08/2014
Blog Posts
The Think Tank Initiative’s Policy Engagement and Communications Program is hosting a Virtual Write Shop on “Writing News Releases that Make an Impact.”
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.
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.
08/07/2014
Blog Posts
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.
17/06/2014
Blog Posts
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.
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.
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.
02/06/2014
Blog Posts
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.
29/04/2014
Blog Posts
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.
17/04/2014
Blog Posts
Zilper Audi, Communications Officer at IEA Kenya, summarizes IEA Kenya’s positive experience with social media as well as outlines a number of reasons why think tanks need to get on social media.
03/04/2014
Guides & Tutorials
This guide to Twitter takes you from setting up an account, through building Twitter relationships, to creating and managing lists. It also focuses on policies and procedures, style and tone-of-voice and strategic Twitter goals.
Paula Fray
Shubha Jayaram
Sue Martin
Maria Balarin
James Harvey
Emily Hayter
Susan Koshy
Ronald Munatsi
Ajoy Datta
Social Media