How can you make the most of the new BRACED website?

The Knowledge Manager’s BRACED website is live! Many thanks for all of your help in making that happen.The site - http://www.braced.org/ - has both English and French versions. It aims to bring together all the best of BRACED, including news, project descriptions and updates, contacts for key BRACED family members, blogs, photos, social media and resources such as reports and case studies. There’s a calendar of upcoming events, and our learning series of BRACED online discussions also have a home on the website.Have questions? If you’re wondering how the website might be of use to you, please join us for an online discussion on how to negotiate it – and make the most of it - on Tuesday, 19 May, at 2:30 pm.

Thanks so much to all of you for joining us today. I hope you learned a few things and got a few of your questions answered; we now have learned some things too and will go try to find out answers to some of your questions.

by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 3:31:58 PM

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Thank you Laurie

by Lancelot (IED Afrique) 5/19/2015 2:15:41 PM

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Hi all, I work with Laurie at Thomson Reuters Foundation, and am also here to try and answer your questions.

by Megan Rowling 5/19/2015 2:25:36 PM

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Hello everyone, I work as knowledge manager for the Live with water project in Senegal. We have looked at the BRACED website already and sent suggestions for changes to the website editor.

by Sabrina (Live with... 5/19/2015 2:32:13 PM

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We are hoping that we will have a good flow of articles and blogs from the BRACED partners on the website, so it would be interesting to know what sort of materials you may be planning already...

by Megan Rowling 5/19/2015 2:33:30 PM

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Hello Everyone, this is Atiq joining from BRACED KM Asia

by Atiq Ahmed 5/19/2015 2:34:59 PM

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Hi, I'm Lucile from IIED, I coordinate external communications for the Decentralising Climate Funds project in Mali and Senegal (working with Lancelot from IED-Afrique who's online here too). I've had a good poke around the website since you launched it - looks good.

by Lucile (IIED) 5/19/2015 2:35:00 PM

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If you've had a look at the website, you'll notice we have a range of different types of content on it. They include blogs, project updates, reports, guides, calendar events, photos, videos and (soon) case studies. If you produce any of those things, we'd be happy to have them on the website. Some of you have contributed already

by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 2:35:25 PM

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Welcome everyone to our discussion on how you can negotiate - and make the most of - the new BRACED website! To start, could we ask each of you to just put in a comment to say hello, if you haven't already, so we know who's joining us today? And would you let us know if you've had a chance to look at the website yet, or if you're about to take a look for the first time?

by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 2:44:01 PM

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Can I ask how you plan to publicise the website (including all of its materials and content) to the wider general public?

by mllenicolakelly 5/19/2015 2:46:28 PM

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And also if there are any particular questions you may have about how to get your content on to the website...

by Megan Rowling edited by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 2:52:31 PM

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Just to note for everyone: The BRACED website has an English version and a French version. Please feel free to submit content in either language - or ideally in both!

by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 2:53:55 PM

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In terms of content - are you only looking for content directly related to BRACED projects or on the wider thematic areas covered by BRACED but written/researched outside of BRACED?

by Lucile (IIED) 5/19/2015 2:58:18 PM

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One thing we'd love all of you from BRACED projects to do this week if you can is look at your project's entry under the "About the Project" page. Click on the links, look at your consortium members. Does it all work? Is the title for your project what you want? Is the description what you want? Is there any other problem you see? Let us know so we can get it all in top shape

by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 3:02:32 PM

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Any initial impressions on the website? I'd love to hear your first thoughts

by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 3:03:10 PM

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How do you find all the material on the website about a particular theme? If you click on the "news" tab at the top you can see news items - such as news reports, project updates, videos, photos or blogs - on a particular theme by clicking on that theme. If you want to see reports, guides or events on a particular theme, click on "Resources" at the top of the page.

by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 3:06:09 PM

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Another question - not so much the website directly, but linked in terms of content type - are you thinking of creating a common template/structure for case-studies?

by Lucile (IIED) 5/19/2015 3:19:04 PM

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We've got about 10 minutes left - any last burning questions? One thing I should point out about the website: The newsletter sign-up function on the homepage isn't working yet, but it should be in the next week or two. We'll send around a reminder then to sign up to get the BRACED KM newsletters

by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 3:22:38 PM

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One question regarding the section "Discussion" : Is it possible for any project to propose a theme for discussion? If yes how is it organized
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by Lancelot (IED Afrique) 5/19/2015 3:25:57 PM

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One final question, if you have time: How useful did you find this discussion?

by Laurie Goering @TR_Foundation 5/19/2015 3:32:34 PM

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