Talking Twitter
Last month, we hit a new digital milestone at DFID: we reached over 100,000 followers on Twitter. Frankly, my first reaction as a digital editor for DFID was a bit, well, "meh". So what? But much like Ira Glass said …
Photos in the age of the app: launching DFID on Instagram
Part of my job as the picture editor for DFID is to always be looking out for creative ways to tell our story in images. From reports and publications to humanitarian emergencies and ministerial visits overseas, I think DFID has …
Development through a lens
With news of Yahoo’s Yahoo's $1.1bn purchase of Tumblr still rumbling, I thought I’d seen the big social media story of the week. Then late that same night, surprise news of Flickr's revamp began to emerge. A radical, Pinterest-influenced new …
Welcome to digital communications
Hello and welcome again to the new Digital for Development blogging group. I am the head of the digital team here in DFID’s communications division in London. I work with a team of talented editors to produce and promote the …
Digital progress
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Julia Chandler, Digital Strategy Implementation, Posted on:
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Digital for Development
We’re starting a new group blog, Digital for Development, to introduce you to colleagues around DFID who will share how using digital communications and technology can help us achieve better results and value for money in our programmes. You will hear …
X Factor, Twitter and Ghana’s democracy
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Henry Donati, Programme Manager, Humanitarian Response Group, Posted on:
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Ghana, Governance, Technology
Late on Sunday evening, something happened for the first time ever. Whilst the UK public was frantically voting on X Factor, Ghanaians had been taking part in a democratic exercise of their own. All day Friday, and on Saturday in some delayed …
Mobile technology is helping Ghana decide its future
My name is Mac-Jordan Degadjor, a blogger from Ghana and a Technical Advisor on the Ghana Decides project. Ghana Decides is a non-partisan project, being funded by STAR Ghana, which is using social media tools (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc) …
Justin Beiber and election fever...
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Henry Donati, Programme Manager, Humanitarian Response Group, Posted on:
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Ghana, Governance, Technology
#Egypt was the most popular Twitter hashtag in 2011, edging out other less revolutionary contenders like #JustinBeiber. ‘The power of we’ is the theme of today’s Blog Action Day, and although ‘beliebers’ might not necessarily agree, there could hardly be …
A silent cheer
The social media room at last week's GAVI conference was quietly buzzing. People's faces were lit by the blue light of their lap top screens and, in one corner, a steady stream of influential people commented and reported into the …
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