Last week I had the great opportunity of attending the Technical Online Communicators workshop of the CGIAR Consortium that was held at the Bioversity International headquarters in Rome, Italy. As usual, I blogged, tweeted, live posted everywhere I could (from Facebook to LinkedIn and Storify) what was happening at this event. Continue reading “What I learned from the #TOCS2013 workshop at @BioversityIntl on technical online communications”
Tag: Social media
#TOCS2013 highlights: from #WebUsability to Revamps and #SocialMedia
From Day 1 the discussions at the Technical Online Communications Workshop (or #TOCS2013 as you can find us on Twitter) organized by the CGIAR Consortium and Bioversity International the discussions have been very intense. From social media strategies, tools we moved on to pliers, analytics, plugins and extensions, depending on the CMS-es (Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Liferay or, the preferred one: DroomlaPress-the only CMS that has it all) that each of us uses on a daily basis. Continue reading “#TOCS2013 highlights: from #WebUsability to Revamps and #SocialMedia”
How to find inspiration in your work?
I often find myself in front of a white screen, looking once in a while at my keyboard, at my monitor, with a bunch of data by my side. I have a lot of ideas circling around in my mind, but I don`t seem, in those moments, to be able to put them done on “paper” (or in my case in a Word document). Continue reading “How to find inspiration in your work?”
How #SocialMedia should be used in higher education for #FoodSecurity?
Ever since I attended the GCARD 2 and have been a part of the Social Reporting team deployed there by YPARD and the CGIAR, I have been wondering how can Social Media be best used to create the premises for global food security.
As a researcher on global food security policies and a social media geek, I realized that if you want to reach a big impact in either fields you have to first educate, then disseminate the knowledge you gained in order to increase its impact. Continue reading “How #SocialMedia should be used in higher education for #FoodSecurity?”
Food Politics & Policies in a time of Food Uncertainty
On April 27th I had the pleasure of attending the 2nd Annual Oxford Global Food Security Conference. Organized by the Oxford Global Food Security Forum, which is a student-led group interested in bringing together research on food security from across all disciplines and sponsored by the Oxford Martin Program on the Future of Food and St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, the conference brought together a small, dedicated group of researchers that lit up the room. Continue reading “Food Politics & Policies in a time of Food Uncertainty”
Dealing with epilepsy 