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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...
Salma Patel at the LSE's blog Impact of Social Sciences has put together a quick and practical list of tips for academics who want to have a stronger online presence, particularly for their research. She first...
Cameron Neylon of the LSE blog Impact of Social Sciences has recently written a piece on the possibility of tracking research impact via Twitter. Monitoring the way how research influences policy and how...
Robert Ward has published a quick practical guide (in Spanish) on the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) on how academics and scientists can explain controversial issues to the...
USAID published a Monitoring and Evaluation guide for health information products and services in 2007. It sets to describe what and how to evaluate health information products and services...
Eoin Young and Lisa Quinn have published a guidebook on research based evidence advocacy. The guidebook is based on their work with the Open Society Foundations. The guidebook is an...
I often say that when it comes to communications, just like with any other activity, one should rely on professionals -or at least those who know and have the experience. It is often tempting to add 'capacity...
(Please note that in this post I am referring to policy research initiatives or programmes: initiatives that have explicit policy influencing objectives.) The RAPID Outcome Mapping...
Organisational advocacy capacity tools: Seeing Change Through: A collaborative approach to monitoring advocacy (CAFOD) Impact 2.0 iGuide - New mechanisms for linking research and policy. This guide is...
From previous discussion on organisational assessment on the EBPDN: Organizational Capacity Self-Assessment Tool Guidelines for Developing an Organizational Training Plan: This guide from the Academy...
From the LSE impact of social sciences blog: a guide to using twitter for researchers: Building your following and managing your profile Using Twitter to maximise the impact of your...
A Framework for Improving Performance: This book offers a clear-cut methodology to diagnose institutional strengths and weakness at the onset of development activities. The inability of development agencies to...