The KM impact challenge - last chance to contribute your story

The USAID-supported 'Knowledge Management Impact Challenge" is looking for stories that illustrate ways to "effectively measure and demonstrate the results of our investments in knowledge and learning." The deadline to submit is less than a week away.

There are already several stimulating stories submitted from the agriculture sector (see them all):

Connecting Arid Lands Communities With Knowledge - shares how ALIN in Kanya assesses the work of its rural knowledge centers.

Agricultural Value chain development - describes how KIVA in Uganda assesses the impacts of its short messaging service linking farmers to markets.

Documenting the documentation processes - from ILEIA explains ways to monitor and asses the participation of rural communities in describing and sharing their own knowledge.

Check out these and other stories and submit yours!

Brasil: Software INOVA-Tec avalia impactos de inovações tecnológicas

A Embrapa Meio Ambiente disponibilizou em seu site a nova versão do software INOVA-Tec, que permite a avaliação dos impactos de inovações tecnológicas, fornecendo informações organizadas de acordo com critérios e indicadores nas diversas dimensões onde os impactos da tecnologia podem ser percebidos.

"O software consiste em um sistema que permite a análise do cenário no qual a tecnologia será introduzida e do desempenho da inovação, pela análise dos indicadores de impacto por meio de pesos e índices", explica a pesquisadora.

O produtor terá a possibilidade de monitorar quais são os indicadores que podem causar problemas e, consequentemente, agir de maneira adequada para cada caso, sem afetar o meio ambiente e a saúde humana.

O software INOVA-Te versão 2.0, está disponível gratuitamente no site da Embrapa Meio Ambiente.

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More on IAALD blog metrics and use

In September 2006, we published a posting on IAALD blog metrics and use. We were proud to record 7,851 unique visitors and 18,500 page loads in our first year. How are we doing now?

For this blog in 2007, 'StatCounter' recorded 36,000 page loads and 12,800 unique visitors (28,800 page loads and 10,800 visitors in 2006).

Our RSS feeds and email alerts (that combine the blog posts with del.icio.us tagged items) were viewed 78,800 times in 2007, generating 2,500 clickthroughs to news items (this is sure rise in 2008 as we already recorded 22,000 views and 3,000 clickthroughs!).

What are you reading? See the most viewed blog postings and feed items (at April 2008).

Where are visitors coming from?

ClusterMaps shows a truly global readership, except China, large chunks of Russia and Brazil, and some parts of Africa. Strong concentrations in North America, Europe, South Asia, Australia, and parts of Africa.

'Google Analytics' lists the top sources of visitors so far in 2008: USA (23%), Netherlands (8.5%), India (8.2%), UK (4.5%), France (3.5%), Italy (3.1%), Canada (2.9%), Philippines (2.7%), Kenya (1.8%), Colombia (1.7%), Germany (1.4%), Australia (1.4%), Nigeria (1.3%), Costa Rica (1.2%), Iran (1.1%), Ghana (1.1%), and Malaysia (1%).

This all seems to show steady, growing, interest in the issues covered, and an increasing willingness by some people to sign up to email alerts and RSS feeds. Another very noticeable trend is the massively increased visits to some blog stories that follow when an email message is sent out to IAALD members announcing recent postings.

IFPRI's Pete Shelton recently blogged on the impact of web sites, giving "a few potential indicators for measuring impact on the web while trying to provide my own impressions on their overall value and utility for measuring impact."

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