A Capacity building and Web 2.0 training focused on empowering participants with collaborative skills and tools was held in two batches between from 4th August – 11th August 2020 in Abuja for all staff of the Communication Unit and other selected staff of L-PRES.
Organised by Net Endeavours Ltd in collaboration with The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, (CTA) Netherlands, participants were trained on the use of social media and collaborative tools to create content share information online among themselves and other groups.
The training course was participatory, and participants learned how to use Remote Collaboration tools, Online Conversation applications, Web 2.0 Intranet application, Social bookmarking tools and Social Networking Sites.
The general objective of the course with respect to the various tools that were introduced in the context of collaboration was to enhance efficiency in the field and office. Practical uses for remote collaborative tools such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc, were demonstrated to enable staff to engage in online real-time collaboration on field work, farmers support, linkages with extension workers and policy makers. Other tools such as advanced searches using Google search engine, google translate, personalised searches using different types of search engines and RSS feeds for learning and group curation of research materials were part of the practical assignments participants were excited about.
The training also introduced participants to microblogging tools like Twitter for live field tweets or survey information, proper use of hashtags for research, using tweets to share notes.
Web 2.0 tools are powerful instruments in a collaborative setting to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in the field and office. In a way, it is the gold standard for working within groups and with other groups of collaborators wherever they may be.Johnson Opigo, MD Net Endeavours Ltd.
Participants were introduced to Blogs and blogging as a veritable tool for collaboration and information dissemination. There were several practical sessions using blogs. Each participant created their own blog during the training and the critiquing session was very helpful for them to learn the best practices in blogging.
The Managing Director of Net Endeavours Ltd, Mr. Johnson Opigo conducted the training and was ably assisted by Mr. Yomi Abe.