CommsKM_AAR

//The Nile Basin Development Challenges was a test bed for comms & KM approaches for other ILRI/CGIAR projects. At the end of the Challenge, Peter Ballantyne and Ewen Le Borgne (both having driven comms/KM work in NBDC) sat together to review lessons from NBDC for other projects.// //These reflections are related to a prezi on the KM and Comms history of NBDC:// @http://prezi.com/yplgpujf6khv/nile-basin-development-challenge-comms-km/

- Yammer: Hmmm. No easy alternative. - Wiki: Working quite well - Web: Simple site, with regular stories. Good to have a home URL. Simple to update. - Slideshare: Nesting was good for the whole program – good to have this explicitly part of CPWF - FlickR: - YouTube: Good. - CG Space:
 * What to keep / use again:**
 * Support to coordination role (e.g. monthly meetings);
 * National platform to continue supporting;
 * Push the ‘comms’ envelope / get it as the norm of all projects;
 * Much more facilitation of events and meetings;
 * What to change/adapt:**
 * Get comms more involved in IP process;
 * Upfront preparing checklist of comms activities;
 * Strengthen production of reflections from the activities/events/trips // guidance;
 * Policy engagement – have more attention to it, with the right people;
 * Too much online / not enough email work?
 * Not enough stats and use of these;
 * Improve management of contacts and mailing lists + SNA à Salesforce + combine it better with other lists of CG events etc.
 * Radio, mobile phone etc.
 * Review of the specific comms channels**:
 * o Refresher courses for staff?
 * o Put more efforts into synthesis of events and activities?
 * o Structure to improve?
 * o Not enough stories from the field
 * o But needs proper tagging to track specific NBDC items (e.g. NBDC)
 * o Needs more regular efforts to capture pix from staff.

- Yammer: Hmmm. No easy alternative. - Wiki: Working quite well - Web: Simple site, with regular stories. Good to have a home URL. Simple to update. - Slideshare: Nesting was good for the whole program – good to have this explicitly part of CPWF - FlickR: - YouTube: Good. - CG Space:
 * What to keep / use again:**
 * Support to coordination role (e.g. monthly meetings);
 * National platform to continue supporting;
 * Push the ‘comms’ envelope / get it as the norm of all projects;
 * Much more facilitation of events and meetings;
 * What to change/adapt:**
 * Get comms more involved in IP process;
 * Upfront preparing checklist of comms activities;
 * Strengthen production of reflections from the activities/events/trips // guidance;
 * Policy engagement – have more attention to it, with the right people;
 * Too much online / not enough email work?
 * Not enough stats and use of these;
 * Improve management of contacts and mailing lists + SNA à Salesforce + combine it better with other lists of CG events etc.
 * Radio, mobile phone etc.
 * Review of the specific comms channels**:
 * o Refresher courses for staff?
 * o Put more efforts into synthesis of events and activities?
 * o Structure to improve?
 * o Not enough stories from the field
 * o But needs proper tagging to track specific NBDC items (e.g. NBDC)
 * o Needs more regular efforts to capture pix from staff.