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The Renaissance of the Corporate Website
Recently, many international development think tanks have revised their websites making them more accessible, simple and visually attractive. When I joined The North-South Institute as...
Corporate websites: do we need them?
Earlier in 2012, Nick Scott wrote about the decline of the corporate website. And then he went ahead to redesign and relaunch ODI's site. Later in the year, James Georgalakis, Head of...
Is it wrong to herald the death of the institutional website?
I recently facilitated a workshop for junior researchers on research uptake and communications. I stood before them espousing the kinds of views on e-communications often...
The decline of the corporate website (and rise of a social internet)
How are current and future developments on the Internet going to affect research communications? The Internet has served research well in helping get messages out into the...
How can we make research communications stickier? Reflections from the Institute of Development Studies
News or blogs on development research are highly unlikely to compete with viral YouTube sensations involving celebrities or pets that reach millions in hours. But a quick...
Zoom zoom zoom, capoeira mata um: communications in the age of austerity
‘Capoeira mata um’, or perhaps more accurately, ‘capoeira foi morto por um’ – at least on one sunny day last summer. Now if you’re like 99.9% of readers of...
How to organise and present a think tank’s research
I had a very interesting conversation with Andrea Ordonez from Grupo FARO today. We were talking about how to organise the research programmes of the think tank and it...