Data visualisation: A pen and cantaloupe may be enough
The other week I had the good fortune of participating in an excellent meeting in Prague hosted by the Open Society Foundations: Policy Research, Technology and Advocacy...
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Taking think tank communications to the next level: Determining what goes where (Part 1)
A “commsversation” between Jeff Knezovich, Melissa Julian and the communications team at ECDPM. Unless a think tank is comprised of only one person, it’s...
Taking think tank communications to the next level: Becoming fit for purpose (Part 3)
A “commsversation” between Jeff Knezovich, Melissa Julian and the communications team at ECDPM. In conducting a strategic review of communication activities,...
Think tanks and their key audiences: what do they have to say?
Last month, On Think Tanks organised two communication for think tanks events in Peru. The first one was with GRADE on the future of think tank communications. The second...
The future of think tank communications in Peru
On Monday 12th August, On Think Tanks and GRADE, a think tank based in Lima, held the first conference on the future of think tank communications in Latin America. The panelists were Enrique...
It’s not me, it’s you (understanding the roles of wonk and comms in digital content creation)
Jonathan Tanner of WonkComms has blogged about its event on research in the digital age. The event explored if there was greater convergence between the worlds of...
WonkComms: the future of think tank communications
Last week I attended an event organised by the Social Market Foundation and hosted by ODI on the future of think tank communications. If you are interested (and you should) you can find...
Promoting density: a few good examples from Britain, the US, and Australia
A few months ago I wrote about an alternative to the demand, supply and intermediary model: the density model. Crucial to this approach is the development of spaces...
The power of the ‘package’ in communicating forestry research
Packages are powerful. I’m talking about multimedia packages – a variety of digital media content brought together online and used to communicate a particular...
Social media and policy change: good practice from Indonesia
Social media has changed the way research reaches audiences by making its dissemination easier and quicker to interact with. Has it has the same impact on advocacy? The...
Journalism as research
A problem that emerges every time we take a look at the relationship between the media and research is that researchers can be wary of journalists, as the latter often oversimplifies research...
Communication as Organisation: Implications for Policy Research
In this post we hope to briefly introduce new ways of thinking about communication and working with it to understand human behavior, social change and policy reform. In...