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Nick Scott

Head of Communications (Interim), Communications

Nick focuses on ways digital tools can support the communications, research and management processes of think tanks. He developed ODI’s online communications strategy, awarded Online Strategy of the Year 2012 in the Digital Communications Awards. He is also the founder of WonkComms, a popular community of practice for think tank communications staff.

Nick has broad experience of all aspects of the marketing and communications mix and works across the organisation to communicate research, providing advice on strategic communications to a number of ODI's programmes.

Before ODI, Nick supported online projects at a range of organisations, including ODI, Guardian Unlimited (the UK’s largest and most internationally popular newspaper website), and The Metropolitan Police.

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Responding to digital disruption of traditional communications: 'cradle to grey content’

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 27 September 2011

This is the third in a series of blogs looking at the challenges of ‘digital disruption’ and ODI’s strategy in responding to them. The first blog set the scene, and second outlined in more detail one of three planks of ODI’s strategy: ‘being there communications’. If ‘being there’ outlines the channel the message is delivered through, this blog looks at the content of the message itself, and how the Internet is changing the format of the message and time horizons for which a message can be relevant.

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Responding to digital disruption of traditional communications: ‘being there’ communications

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 September 2011

In the second of a series of blogs introducing how ODI is responding to ‘digital disruption’ in its communications, Nick Scott discusses ‘being there communications’. This is an attempt to bring a more strategic vision to digital distribution of communications outputs by explicitly linking efforts to be heard and found.

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Responding to digital disruption of traditional communications: three planks to ODI’s digital strategy

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 12 September 2011

This blog introduces some of the issues ODI's digital strategy is responding to, and why this strategy is so important for a think tank like ODI. It discusses how communications is changing – and rapidly so - with ‘digital disruption’ breaking down barriers between the traditional functions of a communications team, and throwing up new challenges in all areas.

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Communication for impact: helping researchers influence policy

Projects - December 2010 to March 2013

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie, www.3ieimpact.org) is a new initiative dedicated to improving development outcomes through better use of evidence from quality impact evaluations. The main challenge for the organisation is to promote influential impact evaluations that will help improve policies and programs and ultimately affect many lives in developing countries.

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Communications for policy influence

Event - Workshop - 1 - 3 September 2010

This workshop is designed for researchers who are working with or on a research programme, project or organisation. It aims to introduce principles and tools to effectively communicate research to inform pro-poor policy.

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