The International Aid Transparency Initiative is a new initiative which aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand. IDML or International Development Markup Language is an emerging XML standard for aid information. The Development Gateway's AiDA project is the largest online directory of development activities, and provides information about who is doing what in international Forum One co-sponsored the Open Development Barcamp at the World Bank on Friday. Over 100 people showed up to talk about how we can make aid more transparent and

Kinda cool that companies are now posting internal policies publicly . Drat the internal search  Do you have internal guidelines available to the public????  Technorati Tags: behavior , blogging policy , Code of Conduct , Corporate , guidelines , internal , policies , social media , staff ...Tags: Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on.

A colleague of Chris, Jacobien Ritsema worked with Riny Heijdendael to introduce wikis in the organisation in November 2005, and right now Chris can hardly recall how he used to organize his work before there were wikis in his life… Milieukontakt uses wikis for internal communication, but also started to use it with partners in Central and Eastern Europe. For instance: ‘we had a new member from Moldova in the international training group. I interviewed Chris van de Sanden (in the picture) by Skype about Milieukontakt ’s use of wikis and how the use of wikis support their work.

Tags: collaboration international development knowledge sharing non profits/ngos online interaction social media CGIAR FAO kstoolki I’ve been co-designing and c0-facilitating a number of workshops for the CGIAR and FAO over the past few years about knowledge sharing, and more recently, this phenomenon people call “social media.” 8221; Part of this work has been to  comb through resources and create some launch pads that are relevant to NGOs and non profits.

The Society for International Development has done it again! Earlier this month, I attended their tremendous annual conference with notable and unforgettable speakers that make you leave the glimmering chandeliers in DC's Omni Shoreham ballroom thinking to yourself, what more needs to be done in international development? The conference convened approximately 600 leaders and advocates for international development. How can the end goals be achieved? The Above the clattering of China plates covered with hot stuffed chicken and long grain rice were conversations rich in

I interviewed him about the use of Yammer as an internal microblogging tool. At our department with 50 people there was a need for more knowledge and news to share. Yammer is a internal sort of Twitter. Yammer has been played the role of an internal Twitter. Godfried Knipscheer works as digital communications advisor to the Flemish government in Belgium and is project leader of a social media project. There are many meetings, meetings and seminars, but knowledge was not structurally shared.

In an internal survey respondents felt they were better connected and saw more potential for cooperation. Christian Kreutz worked for two years at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit ( GTZ ) in Egypt. The German Technical Cooperation works quite decentralized having country offices in most partner countries. Projects are mostly located throughout

Tags: Amnesty International British Airways Made by Many opinion digital measurement social medi I’ve been thinking of how to measure engagement in the digital space for a while now, so I wanted to aggregate my thoughts and put them in one place. This post is intended to be provocative and get people thinking about how the current thinking of measurement of social media should change.

Tags: international development non profits/ngos online interaction social media technology stewardship identit My friend and colleague, Shirley Williams, pointed me to a great resource on digital identity (DI) that she and her colleagues created for their students at Reading University in the UK.  It is called “ This Is Me .”

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