Dear Colleagues I’m really pleased to inform you that we look forward to welcoming Michael Victor as our incoming head of CKM. Michael will start work with ILRI in early 2019 and will be based in Addis, although initially undertaking some work remotely (from Laos) for the first few months of the year. Michael … Continue reading
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Thursday links
A biweekly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other topics that may be of interest to ILRI staff, compiled by David Aronson. Continue reading
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Thursday clippings
A biweekly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid, and other topics that may be of interest to ILRI staff. Continue reading
Yammer Upgrade on 8 August
Since at least 2008, many CGIAR staff members have been using Yammer to share updates and discuss their work. Yammer is part of Office 365, and it is about to get upgraded. Our private enterprise social network is getting better! From 8 August, those of us using Office 365 will be able to access Yammer … Continue reading
Publishing and communications guidelines update
Some years ago, ILRI management approved an institutional strategy on research publishing with overall information on goals and channels we use. This is supplemented by several guidelines covering specific process and procedures on different aspects of this work. Below is a list of all these guidelines. Guidelines 2, 3 and 4 date from 2013 and … Continue reading
Nairobi Infocentre re-organization
Colleagues Some of you will/may notice some ongoing changes in the Nairobi infocentre space. We are re-organizing the space to provide better quiet areas and study space as well as working space for the CKM people located there. Most of this should be completed later this week. There are no engineering works at this time; … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Update on changes and developments in communications and knowledge management
In July last year, ILRI’s two teams – public awareness and knowledge management and information services – merged to form communications and knowledge management (CKM). As part of the re-grouping, we also strengthened links between the CKM team and the wider set of communications people embedded in projects and programs – as a community of … Continue reading
Making your research more visible – 5 tools for ILRI authors, scientists, staff
ILRI’s communications and KM group has put in place many institutional mechanisms and tools to make ILRI research visible on the Internet and beyond (CGSpace for example). Increasingly, individual authors and scientists can do a lot more of this themselves. Here are 5 things you can do to make your ILRI work more visible (it … Continue reading
Introducing James Stapleton, Managing Editor
Please join me in welcoming James Stapleton who from 1 June 2015 has joined ILRI as Team leader, publishing and curation in the communications and knowledge management team, based in Addis Ababa. Before joining ILRI, James spent more than 15 years working for various international and national NGOs in policy and communications roles. Between 2004 … Continue reading
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