Finding and managing information
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Finding and managing information
Under this broad communication area, Komms Klinics zooms in on the following aspects, among others:
- Using search engines effectively;
- Managing and filtering information;
- Using social media and RSS feeds to manage information;
- Getting effective at personal information and knowledge management for yourself and your teams;
- Tags and categories;
Awareness raising session: "Finding and managing information”
28 August, 11.00-12.30, Information centre break out room, ILRI Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.
List of registered participants for this session
Results
Read the blog post 'Finding and managing information in a research environment – an ILRI KommsKlinics session'
Results to the question: "What are your personal tips and tricks to find and manage information individually?" Finding information individually - their sources are:
- Google search engine (using different key words), Google scholar
- Bi-lateral conversation with colleagues, asking questions (face to face meetings)
- Social media (Yammer, blogs Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds, Flickr, Slideshare)
- From news media
On Managing information:
- We need a hands-on session with some specific tools to manage information
- Usually we manage information in our computer by having different folder structure (this is feedback from almost all people)
- Mendeley or Mahider
Materials
- Advert: File:KK_Managing_finding_information Advert.pdf
- Presentation: Finding and managing information
- Outline sheet for this event: upcoming :File:KommsKlinic-Awareness_raising-finding_and_ managing_information_outline.pdf
Evaluation
| Content | Process | ||
| Awesome! I learned so much! | 3 | 3 | Superb! It went like a dream |
| Great! I learned quite a bit | 11 | 16 | Nice! I liked how it was organized |
| It was ok | 7 | 4 | Not bad |
| Mwaah... nothing really new | 3 | - | Duh! Too chaotic! |
| Terrible! I could have been the instructor | 1 | 1 | ??!? This was a complete waste of my time |
Additional comments and suggestions (Addis):
- I found it very useful and gained lots
- The trainers are well equipped
- The Komms people need to organize a similar session to discuss on standardizing quality information to be shared on the various medias
- I really appreciate the effort of komms team to bring most staff to the knowledge of modern information finding and managing
- It would be great to have a more focused session on giving example and scenarios showing on finding specific information
- I learned about delicious and will check it right now
Feedback from Nairobi Group:
- The group expressed a collective agreement that finding and managing information is a problem especially when there is too much information available. The training offered them tips and tricks on how to narrow down their search for specific information.
- The PKM session was too technical but very important.The time allocated to this presentation was short but they promised to further discuss it with the organizers.
- Make it more practical rather than theoretical
- The discussions were superb, the Nairobi team discussed so many issues and even had short presentation on tools like Mendley, Delicious,google drives etc
- At a point the sound was distorted which affected the participants concentration
- Aquestion on ILRI data management policy was raised; do we have one in place? Where can staff access it? Who handles the raw data and how can raw research data be accessed for secondary use? Is there a central database for all ILRI research projects that stores everything. This information should be available to ILRI staff and students…..
