Showing posts with label success stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label success stories. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Web 2.0 and Social Media - Share Your Story

This initiative launched by CTA is intended to gather success stories from people who’ve benefitted from interactions with CTA in the domains of Web 2.0 and Social Media and used the acquired skills and networks to accomplish something that wouldn’t have been possible before.

In case a submission will be successful you will be contacted by a journalist who will interview you in order to prepare an article.

Should the case be exceptionally inspiring and innovative, and have had measurable impact beyond your personal development, CTA may organise the production of an on-site video-documentary to capture your story and gather feedback from your beneficiaries.

Read more ....

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Web 2.0 and Social Media Success Stories: Nawsheen Hosenally



Dubbed as the TwitterLady, Nawsheen Hosenally shares the story of her professional career and how skills acquired in mastering Web 2.0 and Social Media have played in a role in shaping it.

At present Nawsheen is working as CT4Ag Assistant at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) in the Netherlands.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Web 2.0 and Social Media Success Stories: New skills and lifelong changes



Husna Yagoub is from Sudan. She works at CTA as data assistant in the framework of the Knowledge Management & Communication Programme (KMC).

Likewise other CTA staff she has been following the Spring 2014 session of the online course "Innovative Collaboration for Development" run by UNITAR and co-funded by CTA. This is the first distance learning course she has ever attended.

Confronted with great challenges she has been perseverant and kept telling me that - while doing the course - she gained a lot in terms of self-confidence and that she is going to be much more effective on her work.

We decided to capture her thoughts on camera and it's worth listening to her story ...

Visit the Web2forDev Gateway for more information on face to face courses on Web 2.0 and Social Media.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Web 2.0 and Social Media Success Stories: from disseminating agri information to supporting drafting the new constitution



Mr Simunza S. Muyangana is Director at Digital ICE Interactive Media Ltd and founder of BongoHive in Lusaka, Zambia. He is specialised in website development, new media technologies, and web 2.0 and social media training.

On 24-26 March, 2014 a 3-day write-shop took place at CTA in Wageningen in the Netherlands. The purpose of the event was to update the curriculum which is used by CTA and partner organisations to run "Web 2.0 and Social Media Learning Opportunities" in ACP countries. The participants in the write-shop agreed on the need to identify and document success stories resulting from the adoption of Web 20 and Social Media solutions.

In this short video he briefly recalls three success stories. Let's hear his story ...

To know more about Web 2.0 and Social Media Learning Opportunities visit our site www.web2fordev.net