Nairobi+comms

=**Nairobi Comms Days – Overview**=


 * 24-26 August 2011**

22 August – Peter arrives 23 August – Tsehay, Apollo, Liya, Zerihun arrive

24 August (all day) – Comms Exchange – update and sharing among campus comms people (Ndama lounge)

25 August (all day) – ‘Komms Klinics’ for staff (IT training room AND cybercafé and Infocenter?). 25 August (afternoon) – ‘AgKnowledge Café’: mini share fair for Kenya based people working with agknowledge (infocenter)

26 August (all day) – ‘Komms Klinics’ for staff (IT training room AND cybercafé and Infocenter?). 26 August (evening) / 27 August (morning) addis people leave


 * Comms Exchange**
 * 24 August, all day**
 * Ndama Lounge**

For ourselves, I want to cover how we use, and can improve using and supporting, various tools:
 * Dspace/mahider
 * Blogging
 * Slideshare
 * Flickr
 * Wiki’s
 * Ilri website
 * Yammer
 * Ilrinet
 * Google calendar
 * Delicious
 * Mendeley – can we make use of this?
 * Ilri-comms wiki
 * Ilri-comms yammer


 * Komms Klinics**
 * 25 and 26 August**
 * IT Training room, Cybercafe, Infocenter**

If possible, 90-minute ‘Komms Klinics’ to include the following. Most to be delivered twice. General intro for staff, so not too detailed and complicated.
 * Updating yourself on the ILRI web site (Liya, Tsehay)
 * Using Yammer (Tsehay, Zerihun, Liya)
 * Working with Wikispaces (Tsehay, Liya)
 * Sharing your photos; using the ILRI collection (Liya, Apollo, Susan)
 * Film and video at ILRI (Zerihun, Apollo, Clare)
 * Introducing social media at ILRI overview (Peter)
 * Making the most of Mahider (Peter)
 * Sharing powerpoints and posters on slideshare (Tsehay, Liya, Zerihun)
 * Social reporting your meeting (Peter, Tsehay)
 * A Comms toolkit for your ILRI project (Peter)
 * Publishing news with blogs (Susan, Paul, Tezira, Evelyn)

Rough schedule (each session 90 minutes max):
 * || **Infocenter** || **Cybercafe** || **IT Training room** ||
 * Thursday 9.00 – 10.15 || Introducing social media - peter || Film and video - apollo || Ilri website - liya ||
 * Thursday 10.45- 12.00 || Publishing with blogs - susan || Mahider - peter || Yammer - zerihun ||
 * Thursday 13.30 – 14.15 ||  || Photo sharing – liya || Wikispaces - tsehay ||
 * Thursday 14.00 – 16.30 || Agknowledge Café ||  ||   ||
 * Friday 9.00 – 10.15 || Social reporting your meeting - peter || Film and video - apollo || Ilri website - liya ||
 * Friday 10.45 – 12.00 || Publishing with blogs - susan || Mahider - peter || Yammer - zerihun ||
 * Friday 13.30 – 14.45 || Comms toolkit for your project - peter || Photo sharing - liya || Wikispaces - tsehay ||