Communications review for SAIIA
Project brief OTT reviews and reports on SAIIA’s communications products as part of Southern Hemisphere’s evaluation of SAIIA’s strategic plan (2017-2021) Dates January to February...
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Roundtable discussion: Narrative power & research
What’s the role of research, researchers and think tanks in contributing to narrative change? This session, organised by Oxfam and On Think Tanks, discussed key...
Change is all about the narrative
2020 feels like an intense novel – you’re desperate to get to the end of the story and hope it will all work out, but right now you’re not so sure. The 2020 narrative is jam packed with...
Strategy exploration and design support for the Open Society Foundations
Project brief OTT Consulting is working with the Economic Justice Program at the Open Society Foundations to support the development of a new strategy. OTT's support...
Why we finally need to face up to information fatigue in 2019 (and 3 ways to do it)
2018 was an intense year. On a personal level, I moved countries and became freelance, so that probably has a lot to do with it. But I don’t think it was simply...
Communication strategy for the Bernard van Leer Foundation
Project brief OTT Consulting is working with theBernard van Leer Foundation to help its team develop a new communication strategy and put it in practice in 2019. The...
Training on research communication for the University Nottingham
Project brief OTT Consulting is supporting two different target audiences at the University of Nottingham: its research beacons and a wider set of researchers and staff...
Communications monitoring, evaluating and learning toolkit
This toolkit provides a framework to think about communications monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), and provides example questions, indicators and tools to do...
How on earth do you measure the impact of your events?
Caroline Cassidy writes about a novel approach to measuring the impact of public events. The post provides practical advice on how to design and use M&E tools for events....
The Power of Film: Turning your talking head video into a story
Last time, I focused on the art of the talking head video. This time I want to explore how to take your next steps into the realm of online film to develop something more elaborate: to...
The Power of film Do it yourself: The Talking Head
Producing an online film could be one of the best small investments you make as part of a wider communications strategy for a think tank or organisation. In the first of a series of blogs on online videos, I...
Research communications support: why do donors, think tanks and consultants keep making the same mistakes?
Building capacity to develop research communications skills and competencies for policy influence is not a new thing. There are a multitude of players involved in the...