CrowdSpotting: Who, what, why, where, and the when of your web audience

Join us for an IAALD Webinar on May 13, 2011

As the tools for statistics become more sophisticated we need to move away just from numbers of pageviews on our website and answer more questions on HOW our content is read by our audience. See WHO visits your website and the reach of the internet audience you have in their country. Measure the Height, Width and Depth of your readers behavior and find out WHAT interests them. See WHERE to put your effort in promoting your content…See exactly WHEN your visitors come and….. WHY do nearly all our visitors for one particular IFPRI publication come on a Thursday? Join us to find out.

Presenter: Chris Addison, Web Communications, International Food Policy Research Institute

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT check your time zone here

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

Space is limited.

Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/404439638

These tutorials are designed to showcase web tools and applications and how they are used to support your work and it is our hope that participants will come ready to explore and discuss these topics with their colleagues in further detail.

Social media guidelines for your organization - check these from IFAD

If your organization are using 'social media' like blogs, twitter and the like, then a set of 'social media guidelines' from IFAD will be a source of ideas and good practice.

The guidelines are for IFAD staff and consultants. The guidelines give practical advice on how to engage with social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Blip, Slideshare, Wikis, Blogs and others.

As well as information about how IFAD uses the various tools, it is very useful in showing how an organization keeps different tools active, deals with comments, and how individuals working for IFAD should engage online.

View or download the guidelines on slideshare:

L'édition française du New Agriculturist disponible en ligne !

L’édition française du New Agriculturist (www.new-ag.info) est désormais disponible en ligne. Au sommaire de ce numéro figurent une rubrique Focus sur des initiatives prises en faveur des jeunes d'Afrique et d'ailleurs pour les aider à réaliser leur potentiel en tant qu'entrepreneurs du monde rural.

Le Rapport sur la pauvreté 2011 du FIDA qui propose des stratégies et des mesures pour réduire la pauvreté fait aussi l'objet d'un compte-rendu.

Et Louis Amédé, coordinateur général des journalistes d'Afrique Centrale et de l'Ouest pour l'agriculture, livre son point de vue dans la rubrique Opinions.

Bien sûr, de nouveaux articles et d'autres rubriques en français feront leur apparition dans les mois à venir. Les prochaines éditions porteront notamment sur la création d'entreprises agricoles, les sources de revenus en milieu côtier et les forêts.

Si un des sujets abordés dans cette première édition du New Agriculturist en français vous intéresse ou vous donne envie de réagir, parlez-en autour de vous et partagez cette nouvelle source d'informations.

Rural knowledge networking in Asia - the ENRAP experience

ENRAP Knowledge Networking for Rural Development in Asia-Pacific Region was a network formed as a partnership between IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and IDRC (International Development Research Centre) to support knowledge sharing amongst the poverty alleviation projects and partners of IFAD located in the Asia-Pacific region.

Over the past ten years, ENRAP fostered links between communities, IFAD project and partner staff, policy makers, research institutions and innovators. In the process, it pioneered a number of methodologies and innovations to create a vibrant network of relationships and explored direct links between knowledge access and rural livelihoods.

ENRAP's work in motivating isolated communities and helping them to build capacity for knowledge sharing has important lessons for all those engaged in the development sector. A full account of the evolution of this network, and the challenges of bringing together remote communities across barriers of language, poor connectivity and resource constraints, is available on the ENRAP web site.

Download the report: Strengthening rural livelihoods : the impact of information and communication technologies in Asia

Using Mendeley: First IAALD webinar great success

On Friday, April 8th, Luz Marina Alvare (IFPRI) conducted a webinar on Mendeley on behalf of IAALD.

With a combination of PPT slides and live examples, Luz Marina provided more than 30 participants with an excellent introduction to Mendeley and how it can be used practically for research management on desktops and the web.

Mendeley provides powerful but easy to use capabilities to catalog, share, import, and manage academic papers. The software is free and facilitates collaborative research.

See the webinar presentation below; we plan to make the recorded session available, as well as the Spanish version of the PPT slides.

Almost Famous Boost your research profile, collaborate and share using Mendeley

New CTA strategy

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) recently issued its new strategy for the period 2011-2015.

For the next 5 years, CTA will focus its efforts on three priority areas: supporting regional agricultural and natural resource management policies and strategies; promoting priority agricultural value chains; and strengthening the information, communication and knowledge management capacities of ACP institutions and networks.

Interview with CTA Director Michael Hailu

Download the plan document

Almost famous: boost your research profile, collaborate and share using Mendeley

Join us for an IAALD Webinar on April 8, 2011

A brief introduction on uses of Mendeley, a research management tool for desktop & web, to organize research, collaborate with your peers, cite as you write and discover the latest research.

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT check your time zone here

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

Space is limited.

Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/647946934

These tutorials are designed to showcase web tools and applications and how they are used to support your work and it is our hope that participants will come ready to explore and discuss these topics with their colleagues in further detail.