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numbers, numbers, numbers

Posted on November 26, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

In a world consumed with quantitative evaluation, don’t forget the power of words and stories to demonstrate impact. In his book, The Power of Social Innovation, Stephen Goldsmith (@powerofsocinnov) has many good messages for social entrepreneurs and social innovators, but one message that sticks is that it is important to ensure that “excellent doesn’t become […]

O3 Celebrates its First Year with New Features

Posted on October 22, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

ResearchImpact wishes O3 a Happy First Birthday! We have been using O3 since its pilot phase in May 2009 and continue to grow our O3 community by supporting the KT/KB 2010workshop at the Canadian Science Policy Conference. Happy Birthday O3 and thanks for the shout out for Mobilizing Minds and York’s Saggitarius project. Ontario institutions […]

Posted in ArchivedTagged O3, Social media

Postcards from Congress Day 2: new ResearchImpact web features

Posted on May 30, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

What Happened: You have heard about KMb in Action. In response to one request from our web survey, we developed success stories of KMb in practice featuring stories of university researchers and their non-academic partners. Our online community also asked for greater access to KMb resources. We have expanded our web links section to become […]

Posted in ArchivedTagged Conference, Congress, delicious, Postcards, Social media

Teen Pregnancy and Teen Mothers: Meeting the Needs in York Region

Posted on May 14, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

In the summer of 2009, as part of the initial grant for York’s KMb pilot project and as part of a competitive, adjudicated process, the KMb Unit created Social Innovation Collaboration Grants to address research issues with relevant public policy and/or professional practice implications in the areas of Mental Health, as this was an identified […]

Posted in ArchivedTagged KMb, O3, Partnerships, Social media, Youth

Results from our Social Media Survey

Posted on April 30, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

ResearchImpact has had a web presence since 2006 when we first launched our site www.researchimpact.ca. Since then, we have made substantial changes to the site 2007 and 2009. We entered the Web 2.0 world with the launch of this blog in May of 2008 and then started using twitter (@researchimpact), delicious (delicious.com/ResearchImpact) and O3 (http://researchimpact.othree.ca), […]

Posted in ArchivedTagged Social media, Survey, twitter

The View from Here – KMb as an ecosystem

Posted on April 20, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

I just returned from 5 sunny days in Banff. While there, I enjoyed amazing weather and wonderful sights. I went up the Banff Gondola cable ride to the top of Sulpher Mountain. From the top I looked down on the town of Banff, the TransCanada Highway, the Banff Springs Hotel, The Banff Centre for the […]

GURU = Great University-Based Research Utilization

Posted on March 8, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Guru. That’s what we think of when we think of Carole Estabrooks and her more than two decades of research and teaching in KT, and we weren’t disappointed when she was the inaugural speaker for the Ontario KTE Community of Practice (CoP) 2010 season (see the presentation slides here). The event attracted 28 knowledge brokers, […]

Posted in ArchivedTagged Brokers, KMb, KT, Social media

Q. What sits at the intersection of political participation and community engagement? A. Knowledge Mobilization

Posted on January 25, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Hernando Rojas, H. and Puig-i-Abril, E. (2009) Mobilizers Mobilized: Information, Expression, Mobilization and Participation in the Digital Age. J. Computer-Mediated Communication, 14: 902–927. “We contend that through these mobilization efforts the mobilizer is ultimately mobilized.” Not even I could use the word mobilize or derivatives thereof that many times in a sentence. “We contend that […]

Posted in ArchivedTagged Community, Engagement, KMb, Politics, Social media, Technology

KM at York: How will it grow – from understanding to undergraduates?

Posted on December 17, 2009 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

The following is a guest blog posting from YorkU 4th year undergraduate student Andrei Sedoff. Andrei has worked in the YorkU KM Unit for the past 2 summers and throughout the academic year and has worked on the development of our clear language research summaries, which can be found on our web site here. I […]

Posted in ArchivedTagged KMb, Social media, Students

♫Let it Grow, Let it Grow, Let it Grow♫

Posted on December 4, 2009 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

ResearchImpact announces growth in research summaries, community access, outreach and new web tools. Three recent stories speak to the continued development of KM services at York: Research Summaries and Community Collaboration Stations As reported in YFile on December 4, 2009, York announced the release of 40 additional ResearchSnapshot research summaries. This effectively doubles the number […]

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