By Nyasha Musandu Let’s face it, social media can be overwhelming. The pressure to engage, connect and share is intense. As researchers, communication professionals, content curators, you are not exempt from this endless need to share, share, share. To make … Continued
Last month CommsConsult was asked once again to provide communication training to the Japanese awards finalists at the annual GDN conference. This year the conference was held in Lima, Peru, and Nyasha, our training unit manager, winged her way over … Continued
Our Training Unit Manager, Nyasha Musandu, is in Ethiopia this week facilitating the December Biannual Research Workshop for the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). The workshop, held in Addis Ababa in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa … Continued
This week, CommsConsult has been part of a global group of research uptake professionals who attended the first ever Res Up Meet Up at the Southern Sun Mayfair in Nairobi Kenya. With close to 150 participants in attendance, the meeting … Continued
It’s important to explore different ways of telling a story. At CommsConsult we often use the online tool Prezi to create interesting and dynamic visual aids for learning or presentations. This photo blog is an experiment in visual storytelling and … Continued
Last month CommsConsult was very excited to hear that Kailash Satyarthi had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Malala Yousafzay. Satyarthi is the founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), a children’s rights organisation which works in India to eradicate … Continued
As part of our efforts to keep up with the trends in strategic communication, my wonderful organisation allowed me the pleasure of spending 3 fantastic days in beautiful Nairobi, Kenya for the first ever Net-Map Training held in Africa. Hosted … Continued
The buzz around social media training in Zimbabwe has definitely caught my attention. A combination of global organisations such as Web2forDev and Mercy Corps and local organisations such as; GetSocial and Techzim all have innovative social media training for people … Continued
My dad went through this crazy phase where he randomly used to say ‘mind the gap’ then laugh. Being rather young during this odd period, I never really paid much attention to it, something about baby boomers and generation x… … Continued
CommsConsult has worked with GDNet and Euforic Services for nearly four years to deliver a suite of policy engagement workshops for Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC) researchers. Currently in Nairobi, the team met a new cadre of African economics researchers from … Continued