Organizing, Managing, Communicating and Leveraging Information and Knowledge to Support and Deliver CRP Results Knowledge Sharing for internal communications in CCAFS Vanessa Meadu
Dec 26, 2015
Organizing, Managing, Communicating and Leveraging Information and Knowledge to Support and Deliver CRP Results
Knowledge Sharing for internal communications in CCAFS
Vanessa Meadu
Key Purposes of the CCAFS Intranet
1. Make information and knowledge easily available and accessible to CCAFS internal team from a single point of access...
2. Central location for the CCAFS teams and Center collaborators to view forthcoming internal and international events, staff absences, institutional contact points directory, meeting agendas/minutes
3. Document collaboration and management
- Ability to check-in/check-out documents (one-author at a time)
- Manage version history
- Set final documents as records to ensure no one else modifies them
- Send document links by email (instead of attachments)
Email ‘plus’• Monthly director’s
bulletin with highlights/opportunities/admin to wide internal group
• Email distribution lists for key subgroups
• Monthly internal message w/ activity updates to core team members
Shared repositories
Standards, guidelines and trainings for publishing CCAFS outputs • Dspace• Flickr• YouTube• Slideshare • Blog
More approaches• Face-to-face including annual
science meetings• Monthly video telcos for
management team• Regular group calls to plan specific
activities• Very small Yammer group for
coordinating unit comms