KS Toolkit

They say  ”a picture is worth a thousand words” and I have always been intrigued by pictures, images and visuals and their production as tools for knowledge sharing and learning. The field of ‘graphic facilitation’-in which the creation of graphics are a key part of the facilitation process- is a growing field.
According to the KS Toolkit: “Graphic recording at its core is visually capturing what is happening in a group or presentation. It is part of a large set of visual practices which use images as part of group processes, which includes graphic facilitation, collaborative graphics work, etc. ”

So like many of you out there reading these blog posts, I often travel and attend meetings and workshops, and need to document and share what happened and what I did for my Institute/Program on my return.
The usual format is a back-to-office report written in Word, with a fairly generic format—right?
It is usually done on return when most ideas are no longer fresh in the mind and the pressures of being back in your office are more than distracting—sound familiar?

When we began our blog series on Social Medial Tools two months ago, we had no idea how successful it would be. Feedback from readers has been positive and encouraging, so much so that Meena Arivananthan (who has written the series with input from Antonella Pastore and Simone Staiger-Rivas) finished the tenth post on these tools a few days ago. And there’s no stopping her.
For easy reference, we have assembled the various links to these mini tutorials below, so you can now tell at a glance where to get help on newsfeeds, wikis, microblogging, and much, much more:

Our work in Knowledge Sharing is featured in this month’s Making a difference edition.
Thanks to IFAD colleagues for making our work known!