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In this blog forest professionals around the world share their ideas and experiences on forest information management and sharing with the global forestry community. Besides the blog posts you can find GFIS workshop material here.
27 Aug · Fri 2010
And the winners of the GFIS Quiz are...
After two intense weeks of competition among IUFRO World Congress participants, the GFIS staff performed a random draw on Friday evening to select the three lucky winners among those who correctly answered six or more questions on the GFIS Quiz. By the end of the second week, the GFIS staff had received over 160 entries from interested participants.
When returning home and back to work, we are hopeful that the knowledge and experience gained from GFIS can be used by each and every IUFRO organization to enhance the promotion and dissemination of forestry information.
[Read More]26 Aug · Thu 2010
Side-event "Tweets for Forest Research ? Opportunity and Problems of Using Social Media in Forest Science"
Information on the Side-event "Tweets for Forest Research - Opportunity and Problems of
Using Social Media in Forest Science" which was given at the XXIII IUFRO World
Congress on August 25, 2010 in Seoul, Republic of Korea
The development of digital communication has rapidly accelerated over the past two decades and within this expansion, a vast range of social media channels have formed. The side-event, ?Tweets for Forest Research? presented and discussed the ways social media can be used to compliment global communication in the field of science.
Social media includes Internet and web-based technologies that enable individuals and communities to gather, communicate, share, and in some cases collaborate in a virtually instantaneous manner with the intention of disseminating information and encouraging the flow of new ideas and innovation through social interaction.
[Read More]24 Aug · Tue 2010
"Managing Forest Information" at IUFRO Pre-Congress Workshop Training
This training module is aimed at presenting and demonstrating state-of-the-art internet-based systems and tools that assist in the management and dissemination of forest-related information. One main objective was to introduce the new GFIS and provide information in terms how to utilize RSS feeds for sharing and searching information.
Overview
Five presenters delivered diverse presentations regarding information management.
Topics included
- Overviews of Internet based information delivery
- Global Forest Information Service (GFIS)
- Fundamentals of project management with workgroup assignments and reports
- Practical options for creating dynamic methods of syndicating information through RSS with specific information on becoming a GFIS Information provider.
- Successful methods of adopting these principles by IUFRO-SPDC member institutions(FORNIS and APAFRI)
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