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The future of think tank communications

Event - Public event - 26 April 2013 10:30 - 12:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

How can think tanks adapt to an ever changing communications environment? How do we ensure that ideas continue to cut through despite stiff competition and scarce resources? This Social Market Foundation event hosted by ODI offers you a chance to share ideas and discuss how think tanks can develop and strengthen our output to adapt to an increasingly digital future.

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Using social media: research communications and the development dialogue

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 15 April 2013

'We know that we are reaching people through social media that we weren’t reaching a couple of years ago… That’s helping us to broaden the conversation and awareness of development issues.'

In this interview, Jim Rosenberg - Head of Online and Social Media at The World Bank, Jonathan Tanner – Media and Public Affairs Officer at ODI and Nick Scott, Digital Manager at ODI, discuss the use of social media channels in development and research communications.

The discussants explore the following issues:

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An introduction to digital research communications

Opinion - Films and videos - 21 February 2013

In this presentation, ODI's Digital Manager Nick Scott introduces digital research communications. He focuses on the challenges facing researchers trying to communicate their work in the face of digital disruption, and the opportunities digital tools offer for maximising research messages at low cost.

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Indonesia is growing fast, so is the demand for social welfare: but is evidence keeping pace?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 February 2013

'We often assume that policy and political decisions move fast and by instinct, while the research evidence moves slowly. Yet policy makers are under constant pressure to mange the agenda they have promised to implement. How does that fit with the time required to generate empirical evidence to inform the policies they put in place?'

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Technical assistance: how to get value for money

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 29 January 2013

'Until now much of the debate and action on TA has focused on the 'input' aspect of value for money... However, little has been said or done on the 'output' side: ensuring that TA can deliver the maximum possible developmental impact.'

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Research uptake and impact: are we in danger of overstating ourselves?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 24 January 2013

'Is the pressure to demonstrate concrete impacts on public policy encouraging researchers to overstate their claims about what we are likely to achieve?'

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The 2012 ODI online awards – and some insights they offer into ‘success’

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 8 January 2013

As inexorable as the New Year is the set of retrospectives on the year before that will accompany the calendar change. A new short-hand for the digital age in this arena seems to be the top 10 blog posts of the year, based on the number of views.

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Corporate websites are ‘in decline’: so why the refresh of the ODI site?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 2 January 2013

Back in May last year, I wrote a post for OnThinkTanks.org on the decline of the corporate website (and rise of a social internet).

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Altmetrics are the central way of measuring communication in the digital age but what do they miss?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 17 December 2012

'We shouldn’t be arguing that altmetrics are a better way to measure reach ... altmetrics are the central way to measure the more varied forms of scholarly communication of the digital age.'

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The politics of poverty research: learning from the practice of policy dialogue

Event - Conference - 19 - 20 November 2012

This international symposium looks at the politics of policy-oriented poverty research and pro-poor policymaking. ODI Digital Manager Nick Scott will be speaking on digital strategy and Fletcher Tembo a Research Fellow in the Research and Policy in Development Programme will be attending.

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