Reminder on ILRI communications, templates, etc.

This message aims to remind staff where powerpoint and letterhead and document templates – and some other useful communication resources – can be found:

We use ILRI announcements as the primary mechanism to broadcast (and remember) updates to all staff. This was decided late in 2014 as a way to reduce the number of messages sent to all staff. Read this message for information. Of course, essential messages necessary for all staff are still distributed to all of us. [450 messages have been posted to announcements since late 2014]
Information on updated letterhead and powerpoint templates is here If your computer is not auto-updating the various templates, make sure you have re-started it once. Then contact ICT for help. Similarly, you can find information about getting an ILRI business card on this platform – and Iain Wright posts regular monthly updates for all staff.
The basis for this approach is that staff members choose what information and communications they want to get. Just as we ‘follow’ people on facebook, twitter and other platforms, we have set up all our communication so you can follow them, generally by email: Click this link for information
Colleagues often say they have trouble keeping up with what’s happening at ILRI. This is bound to happen in such a diverse and productive place! Aside from the internal announcements mentioned above, there are several key places and platforms you need to be following: ILRI News and ILRI Clippings are our main corporate news channels. Each has an option on the right side called ‘subscribe to updates’ where you can get updates by email. We also run several other web sites for different programs and projects – see a list at ilri.org/ring.
You can ask Susan MacMillan or any of the embedded communications folks (Tezira, Dorine, Ethel, Muthoni, Brian, Mercy, Simret, Beamlak or Jules) for more information. It is up to you to choose what you want to follow and get in your email box – we will not send you everything!
If you want to get much more than just news and updates – you want to read the reports and outputs – then CGSpace is the place to go. This has all ILRI’s research publications; it also has content from several other CGIAR centres and CRPs (Livestock and Fish, CCAFS, etc.). You can search in many ways; you can also get email alerts for specific types of information, just like on a blog. Abenet Yabowork is the best person to ask for help.
Similarly, we make ILRI’s data accessible via data.ilri.org. Jane Poole has all the answers about this resource.
ILRI’s learning courses (on livestock) are published at learning.ilri.org and indexed in CGSpace (Iddo Dror has information).
There’s MUCH more of course. Many people use Yammer as a sort of ILRI/CGIAR internal facebook. We also have Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Pinterest, Storify, Slideshare, Youtube, Twitter and several other account where we post specific information and resources (photos, video, etc). Many people catch up in coffee mornings and townhalls and different teams hold science seminars (they are listed on our online events calendars and digital signage).
ILRI’s website is a front door to what we produce and do (ILRInet is a back door for staff only). Both link to everything we do.

To find out more about ILRI communications team and activities and services, check out https://maarifa.ilri.org/; we also have a wiki with all sorts of details and guidelines on what we do: http://ilri-comms.wikispaces.com/

Please do contact anyone in the communications and knowledge management team for any help – or to give us feedback. The key contacts are: