Evolving the “FAO in emergency” website

Since the publication of the new FAO in emergency website, we tried to understand what people want to know about Emergency and how to show it in the best way.

As a result of this enquiry, we just launched the first big evolution of the site, most of which is visible in the home page:

The main changes are:

1. The all new Project Highlights & Contributions section.
2. The possibility to find all the content about a Country/Region/Crisis immediately in the Country/Region/Crisis page: check the Lesotho page or the Madagascar locust crisis page, for examples.
3. The addition of new tools in the homepage:
   • A “Multimedia” box which shows the latest 3 videos/photo-galleries uploaded, and
   • The “Latest Documents” box which shows the latest 5 documents uploaded.

It is out!

It took long but now it is out! The new FAO in emergencies website has been published and is available at www.fao.org/emergencies/

I think this is a very good step ahead: complete reorganization, much more content, much more usability, social features and a new approach in the content creation with the site ready to host every new content produced in the “field”.

Have a look at all the main changes we made.

More is in preparation and you will see before summer.

Next objective is…

Long long time, no see!

It has been long time ago I wrote my last post and now I hope to be back, able to write more about what I’m actually doing as manager of the online communication of FAO in emergencies.

The next big objective is the launch of the new website which is scheduled early next October. The Team has been working hardly on it both on the technical and the content side. Changes do not involve only technical aspects but mainly the way the Division is communicating about its activities, getting people from the field more and more involved in it.

We are working on three main directions:

• present a RESTYLED website,
• increase the VISIBILITY, and
• propose more CONTENT from the field

Interaction and dynamism will be key to get the users involved and interested in the content. Images will help posts in giving a clear description of what FAO is doing in the management of emergency situations all over the world. Contributions from the officers in the field will highlight the engagement of the organization in emergency and devolopment activities.

Good news: I’ll take care of the FAO Emergency web activities

This week I have a very good news!

I’m  going to take care of the FAO Emergency Division website together with the related social media and the internet communication.

This is a very important news!

And now let’s  start working on the open issues.

First question is: how many people do browse the website and who are they?

Km4Dev has a new house on the Web!

I’m very happy to announce that the KM4Dev list has a pretty new house on the Web:

Thanks Lucie and Michael for setting it up!