Day 0 sign-up
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We will use a framework guidance approach to help people choose tools that will work to achieve goals and serve needs they have. We plan to ask people to 'sign-up' for sessions they want to attend by thinking about their contexts, work and goals they want to achieve by using KS tools. They will be asked to give top 4 priorities and we will try to get them into their top two sessions
"How do I make my ag knowledge travel?"
Knowledge sharing isn't just for the sake of it, it is done for real reasons. The same is true then of the tools, methods and approaches which help to achieve knowledge sharing.
Where are you now? What phase gives you the most problems? Which phase do you need help with?
Phases
Phase 1. Prioritising and Strategising--identification of issues, needs; figuring out what to do (research questions, project concepts, etc) Some tools that can be used include:
- Need to find out ideas and opinions of others? Try online surveys, online discussion forums(DGroups, Google groups, etc), blogs, wikis
- Want to collect information on the topic? Try social bookmarking, wikis
- Want to discuss with others virtually? Try VoIP, video conferencing, web meeting tools
- Want to identify areas/places to work? Try Google ??
- Want to prepare a proposal, concept note, plan? try collaborative writing tools (wikis, Google docs, etc), mind mapping tools
Phase 2. Planning--deciding on what should be done Some tools that can be used include:
- Want to discuss ideas and plans with dispersed group of people? Try online discussion forums(DGroups, Google groups, etc), blogs, wikis, private microblogging sites (e.g Yammer), VoIP, video conferencing, web meeting tools
- Want to develop and document plans? Try blogs, collaborative writing tools (wikis, Google groups, etc)
- Want to figure out who to work with and target? Try social networking analysis
- Want to raise awareness of and share plans? Try blogging, microblogging, journalist reporting (press releases), newsletter
Phase 3. Carrying out activities (research, implementation, policy advocacy)
Some tools that can be used include:
- Want to interact, consult and share with communities you work with (external to org)? Try workshop activities, video, audio
- Want to collect information and document what you are doing? Try wikis, blogging
- Want to raise awareness and share information on activities? Try microblogging, blogging, photo sharing, video sharing, photo sharing, media reports, website, newsletter
- Want to make sure your internal team all knows what is going on? Try wikis, private microblogging (Yammer), website
- Need to monitor and evaluate your activities? Try workshop review activities, online surveys, online discussion forums, blogging,
Phase 4. Consolidating (developing results, writing reports,) Some tools that can be used include:
- Need to collect reference material and resources? Try social bookmarking
- Want to collaboratively write reports, documents etc? Try collaborative writing tools (wikis, Google docs, etc)
- Photo sharing, video
Phase 5. Communicating and sharing results, achievements, outputs
Some tools that can be used include:
- Microblogging, blogging, websites
- Audio files, video files, photographs
