This document outlines essential e-competencies for diplomats, including how to curate, collaborate, create, critique, and communicate online. It discusses skills like searching for information, filtering resources, collaborating through wikis and social networks, making digital content, monitoring online media, and sharing information. The document emphasizes the importance of curating content to find and filter resources, collaborating through online tools, critiquing information sources and one's own work, and communicating digitally to disseminate ideas.

1. essential e-competencies
for diplomats
Geneva November 2012

2. “Everyone tells me I should be on Twitter, should I?”

3. Policy actors - Ethiopia, Nepal, India,
Kenya & Ghana
Simon Batchelor – IDS Impact and Learning Blog

4. Brian Solis – The conversation prism
http://www.theconversationprism.com/

5. create communicate
audiences
collaborate curate
critique

6. Curate
 Find - Internet search, Wikipedia,
Google scholar, e-resources,
image textbook, etc
 Filter - RSS feeds,
 Collate/collect: social and
personal bookmarking, mind-
mapping, online storage
 Public curation

7. search
bias

8. Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles“
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu
bbles.html

9. curate
RSS - netvibes

14. collaborate
 Wikis, Google tools
 Blogs
 Online social networks
– Twitter & Yammer
 Integrated portals (mobile
accessible websites)

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19. Create
 make digital content including
audio, image, text, website, blog,
video, wikis
 Protect - copyright, privacy,
digital footprint

23. Ushahidi

25. Critique
 Monitor online media
 Assess the validity/authenticity of
sites/information
 Reflect on one’s own practice and
that of one's peers - blogs, forums
etc
 Beware filter bubbles…

29. Communicate
 Share /disseminate/ distribute - wiki,
blog, discussion forum, email,
Google+, twitter, online social
networks
 Promote - twitter, blog, online social
networks, and email

33. Horticulturalist - communicator
 Flower
– Make it attractive: titles, structure, visual,
location
– Advertise it – share buttons, use social media to
promote and advertise
 Bee
– Engage with and encourage the bees: weed the
‘garden’, RT, follow, comment, thank those who
promote your content
 Pollen
– Expect their to be random connections, look out
for them, acknowledge them

34.  Make it pretty and shareable
 Engage
 Anticipate and react

35. Content objects drive traffic

37. essential e-competencies
for diplomats
Geneva November 2012