Social Media: A Pathway to Make Research
Outputs Available and AccessibleSimone Staiger-Rivas
Our Partners are TwitteringOur donors are BloggingPolicy Makers are talking about usFarmers 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
CHAOS
Les Causeuse – Camille Claudel
• Social Media, Web 2.0, Participatory Web.
• It is not about technology.
It is about conversations enabled by
technology
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.
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/ksw_09/index.html
Listen!
Participate!
Engage!
Leave your footprint!
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