Jun 17
In this thoughtful post for the Supporting Think Tank Series, Ajoy Datta recalls and reflects on his experience in Vietnam. This think piece shows how even small misunderstandings can have critical consequences on the outcome of an intervention.
What is the future of think tank communications? IPPR, ODI, the Social Market Foundation and the Economist come together at an event in London to try to address this. The report of the event in itself is a perfect example of what can be done with very little effort -but careful planning.
In this interview, SMERU's Director, Dr Asep Suryahadi, describes his motivations for joining the think tank, the centre's history, and its current and future challenges. Pak Asep explains that as a think tank in Indonesia SMERU must balance a number of sometimes competing expectations from multiple stakeholders.
Almetrics are a new form of measuring research impact by adding on a wider set of metrics to traditional bibliographic rankings based on academic journal citation analysis. While they are a very useful initiative in measuring impact beyond traditional scholarly output, they still have to show progress in certain areas.
Nick Scott's analysis of ODI's web stats offers interesting insights into what seems to matter when it comes to think tanks' contribution to policy and debate. It also suggests that we should look for an alternative to metrics, says Kent Anderson for the Scholarly Kitchen.
In this post, Mallory Clyne, at The North-South Institute, directly challenges the idea that corporate websites may be on their way out. Instead, she argues that they are going through a renaissance and can even challenge the mighty social media.
Supply, demand and intermediaries are categories that fail to describe what goes on in the knowledge and policy communities. Still, they are used to inform interventions. Is there an alternative? This post argues that focusing on competencies may offer a simpler answer.
The Think Tank Initiative has just launched a call for expressions of interest to implement its Policy Engagement and Communications Support Program. It offers great opportunities for new relationships to be forged and new ideas to come into this sector.
I want to explore how to take your next steps into the realm of online film to develop something more elaborate: to produce an online ‘story’. Getting this right is almost as important as who you pick to do your filming and is not always an easy process.
The ODI digital strategy, first outlined in a series of blogs for onthinktanks.org, was awarded Online Strategy of the Year 2012 at the prestigious Digital Communications Awards, held in Berlin on Friday. ODI beat off competition from multinational corporations and specialist digital agencies to claim this major award. This post is based on the speech give to the jury and explains very succinctly what the strategy is and where/why it has worked.
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