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Reflecting, evaluating and triple loop learning
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Better Evaluation is an international collaboration to improve evaluation practice and theory by sharing information about options (methods or tools) and approaches. They have just published the reflective account of the AfricaAdapt evaluation...
A Social Media Certificate for development organizations - An essential next step?
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I participated in a roundtable on social media as tool for engagement in international cooperation, organised this week by the Brussels Office of the World Bank. It gave us the opportunity to discuss and interact with Jim Rosenber...
Open Data Nepal
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Gilbert Sendugwa and Bibhusan Bista We first met Bibhusan Bista from YoungInnovations, Nepal, at the training workshop for the World Bank Institute’s Social Reporting for Procurement programme. Bibhusan is also a central figure in the burgeonin...
Third loop reflections or ‘go out and do some stuff’
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This is the second post on the Climate Change Knowledge Exchange - From Action to Learning - held at IDS in early March 2013. As laid out in the first post, Ewen Le Borgne, Carl Jackson and I co-facilitated the workshop as part of our work for the&nb...
Social Learning in an IDS Knowledge Exchange
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Carl Jackson, Ewen LeBorgne and I co-facilitated a knowledge exchange at IDS entitled, "Acting on what we know and how we learn for climate and development policy' Andy Newsham of the IDS Climate Change team, the lead organiser, blogged on the genesi...
Social reporting at ERF2013 annual conference
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Image credits: GDNet on Flickr I've just returned yesterday for Kuwait City where, together with colleagues from GDNet, I've supported the social reporting at the 2013 ERF Annual Conference. This is the third year I have attended this conference whic...
Research to Impact Hackathon ....and the winner was...
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Well, we were all winners, if truth be told, in the sense that we all learned a lot from the experience of the Hackathon at iHub Research in Nairobi last week. To begin with, the iHub itself is still under three years old yet has blossomed into an ex...
'Let me Hackathon that thing'
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'Every good piece of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch', says Eric Raymond, author of the fabulous book on Open Source software, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Hackathons evolved to harness that personal passion of software de...
Research to Impact Hackathon with iHub Research, Nairobi
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Open data on the web makes it possible to take information on research from many sources, and to generate ‘mash-ups’ that make it available in different places, on different platforms, and in ways that support action and impact. Open data...
Evaluation of CTA web2.0 and social media trainings 2008-2010
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One of the most interesting piece of work we carried out in 2012 was an evaluation for CTA of its web2.0 related capacity building events (2008-2012). The goal of this study was to learn from three years of this web2.0 and social media training progr...
Dgroups 2012 Annual Meeting and Online Peer Exchange
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As part of the management support services we are proving to the Dgroups Foundation, we're working with the its Board to organize the 2012 Annual Meeting. After having met in Rome last year during the ShareFair , this year Annual Meeting will b...
WBI Social Reporting Apprenticeship Programme on Innovative Procurement Reforms
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We're in South Africa this week for a new, exciting collaboration we have started with the World Bank Institute (WBI). It's about social media, ça va sans dire, but this time we'll be working with quite different types of development profession...
Using Feedly as your personal home page
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In his post about Top tips for more effective advocacy Duncan Green recently wrote about the importance of setting up a personal home page as a way to keep on top of recent news and resources - before diving into your mailbox. He also point...
Content Objects - nectar for busy social media bees
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Online content on its own, however interesting, informative or attractive, is as static as a poster on a wall. It will attract attention from people who pass, who might tell other people, but the impact of the work you have put into developing and po...
Two sides of the Evaluation Coin
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Evaluating projects is probably the most demanding of development roles. Good Development depends on learning, on knowledge sharing and on adapting projects to emerging issues and changes in the external environment. It sounds so easy put like that,...
Social media peer exchange session with FAO senior managers
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Social media and other collaborative web 2.0 tools are now firmly embedded in the mainstream of information, communication and knowledge sharing processes, both strategic and everyday. However, in our experience running social media training wor...
R4D Peer Exchange on Theories of Change - Videos and resources
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On July 31 2012 we organised a Peer Exchange session on Theories of Change (ToC). The event took place at DFID in London, was organised in the context of the R4D project with our colleagues from CABI and CommsConsult. The aim was to better...
Social reporting at KM Singapore 2012
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I've arrived today in Singapore where I'll be doing social reporting at the KM Singapore Annual Conference. After last year, this is the second time I attend this event and I very much look forward to the conference starting tomorrow. Organized by t...
Learning social media online - UNITAR ICfD course
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When Euforic Services approached me last year to facilitate an online course on social media, I didn’t imagine I would have so much fun. Last year I had participants from many different countries and regions as well as professional backgrounds and...
