Social Media: A Pathway to Make Research Outputs Available and Accessible

Social Media: A Pathway to Make Research Outputs Available and Accessible Simone Staiger-Rivas

Our Partners are Twittering Our donors are Blogging Policy Makers are talking about us Farmers get online ….

Social Media Boom
Mobile phones: 64 % of subscription in developing world
Social Networking sites: Total amount of time spent increased 600% in 2008. User age switched to 35-39.
Blogs: Climax at 250,000 new blogs per day
Twitter: 3 Million messages / day

Social Media, Web 2.0, Participatory Web.
It is not about technology.
It is about conversations enabled by technology
Les Causeuse – Camille Claudel

Examples

Events
Research processes
Field trips
Varieties
Partners
Posters

Success Stories
Research processes
Interviews

Power points
Pdf files
Documents

Events
Project Web sites
Personal blogs
News
Blogs allow integration of text, video, photo, slides

Allow next users to follow your news updates

Promote your social media activity

Listen to your peers

Share your resources

Key Messages
Social Media has a huge potential to raise organizational, project and personal profiles.
Organizational control over information can slow down the outreach and impact.
We are all responsible for reaching our next and end-users
Social Media can help you to achieve your impact pathway by increasing your network and reaching out to more next users of your research.
CIAT could have a more strategic approach and start a series of pilot projects for experimentation and learning.

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