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Using social media to communicate research:
Experiences of the International Livestock Research Institute
Tezira Lore
Communications Specialist
Agri-biotechnology and Biosafety Communications Conference (ABBC 2015)
Nairobi, Kenya
13-14 April 2015
“ILRI is creating and integrating knowledge to enable
diverse partners to find innovative solutions to make
livestock a sustainable pathway out of poverty”
ILRI’s value proposition
Licence to publish… licence to share
Creative commons licence
“Some rights reserved”
http://cgspace.cgiar.org
ILRI’s institutional repository
Wordpress blog for project news
http://aghealth.wordpress.com/news
• Write blog post to
publicize new report
• Ensure title is ‘tweetable’
(this one: 85 characters
with spaces)
• Add categories and tags
• Embed photo from Flickr
• Include ‘download’ link to
the item in the repository
• Include an excerpt
https://aghealth.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/new
-ilri-report-reviews-the-use-of-a-rift-valley-fever-
decision-support-tool-in-kenya
Use Delicious to aggregate, RSS to republish…
Facebook Twitter
Posters and presentations on Slideshare
Embed presentation
in a blog post
http://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/healthy-people-animals-and-ecosystems
Photos on Flickr
Videos on YouTube
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/
publications/focus20.pdf
http://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/aflatoxin-a-fungal-
toxin-infecting-the-food-chain
Some lessons on best practice
• Publish content under creative commons licensing
• Capture once, re-use often
• Tagging: the secret behind re-use across systems
• Develop usage guidelines to help ensure consistency
• Package messages to suit usage across different media
• Monitor feedback, respond, engage… social media
The presentation has a Creative Commons licence. You are free to re-use or distribute this work, provided credit is given to ILRI.
better lives through livestock
ilri.org
Unless indicated otherwise, all photos by ILRI
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilri

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