Animations: A how-to guide for think tanks
Are animations something you’ve wanted to try in your organisation for a while, but have been unsure how to approach? No two projects are ever the same, but working as an animation producer...
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Monitoring your communications: try this
Monitoring and evaluation – M&E, or MEL as it has come to be known, the ‘L’ standing for learning – has a bad reputation. It’s difficult. It’s boring. Pulling all the...
Four questions to assess your research communications impact
Research can have an impact. But only if we get our research to the right people, at the right time, and in a way they can relate to. Considering how vital...
Five ways to be successful in long-form: Examples to inspire think tanks and research organisations
For us comms types, the world of digital long-form publishing feels like a veritable playground. The PDF dims in comparison to parallax scrolling, looped background videos...
Beyond the artifact: rethinking the research output
Many interventions to increase research impact have received a lot of attention recently, including: Liberating research from PDFs; Changing the writing style from...
The role of narrative change in influencing policy
‘Narrative change’ seems to be a catch-phrase at present. A number of foundations – including the Open Society Foundations - have engaged in narrative change work and a number of...
Long-form: Choosing a digital platform for policy organisations
Mike Connery was right: digital long-form for think tanks has taken off. And from the Brookings Institute to the King’s Fund, policy communicators are publishing fine...
Think tanks and videos: are they an effective tool to communicate research?
I (very) recently joined the On Think Tanks team as an editorial manager. One of my first set of tasks was to create a series about Think Tanks and Videos from content...
What does it mean to be influential? The Institute for Fiscal Studies
Last year, Semana Económica, a Peruvian magazine, asked me to write a short article on what it meant to be an influential think tank -as part of a series of opinion...
Video for think tanks: shooting like a pro (on a shoestring)
As On Think Tanks has argued before, events should never be produced without some kind of recording. They should always be registered, not only because it is good to...
What does the future of think tanks communications hold? A conversation with John Schwartz, Managing Director at Soapbox
John Schwartz, Managing Director at Soapbox, talks about the future of think tank communications. He outlines three trends: digital first, the rise of narratives, and...
Bill Dugan of the World Resources Institute
Bill Dugan is WRI’s Visual Communications Manager at the World Resources Institute, USA, and also the winner of the second round of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation competition. We...
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