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A Wednesday Workshop held at ODI on 21 November 2007 to share a few online tools and software for online dissemination of ODI's work.
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Online tools and software for dissemination
Nick Scott and Jeff Knezovich, ODI Wednesday Workshop21 November 2007
Agenda
1. Gapminder – visualisation of statistics2. Copyright – ‘Creative Commons’3. Presentations
– Material for use in presentations: images, maps
– Distributing presentations online
4. Blogs – ODI blog5. Wikis – Wikipedia
Gapminder – visualisation of statistics
One more online toolfor research
• http://www.gapminder.org • Powered by UN Division
of Statistics numbers• Powerful online
visualisation tool for statistics in a time series
• Currently can only be used with available UN stats
Copyright – ‘Creative Commons’
• What is a creative commons license?– CC is a “some rights
reserved” copyright– It helps you choose
what rights you’d like to reserve
Video from: http://revver.com/watch/108636/flv/creative-commons-wanna-work-together-remix/
Copyright – ‘Creative Commons’
• Attribution. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.
• Noncommercial. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.
• No Derivative Works. You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
• Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
• Maps– http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:
Maps
• Images– http://www.flickr.com
• Rember to check the license T&Cs for any resources you use.
Presentations - Materials for use in presentations
Presentations - Materials for use in presentations
• Example– Slide on potential
effects of biofuels discusses the corn protests in Mexico.
Protesters marching against high corn prices, Mexico,
2007Source: flickr/PHOTOLARTE
Source is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:LocationMexico.png
Presentations - Distributing
presentations online
• Once you have completed a presentation, it’s easily shared with others through Slideshare:– http://www.slideshare.net
• Can even ‘slidecast’ a presentation by adding sound and syncing slides
Presentations - Distributing presentations
online
• A recent example of a SlideShare slidecast from RAPID:– http://www.slideshare.
net/ODI_Webmaster/lines-of-argument-presentation-at-insights-to-impact-meeting
Blogs – ODI blogs
• ODI Blog– ‘commentary from leading
development experts’.
• Humanitarian Policy Network (HPN) Online Exchange– Centre for topical debate among
practicioners and policy makers in HPN.
• ODI Latin America and the Caribbean Group Blog– Blogs to raise profile of new ODI group
with commentary from researchers and guests.
Blogs – ODI blogs
• ODI Blogs offer an important channel for discussion and rapid dissemination of ODI research findings, especially for issues of topical interest.
• There has been policy impact from a few blogs.
• To write a blog, contact your communications officers.
Wikis – Wikipedia
• Video explaining basic concepts of Wikis– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
• Most famous Wiki site – Wikipedia– First point of reference on many subjects– ODI already has information there:– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Overseas_Development_Institute