The Communication Initiative Network

What Are You Saying About The Communication Initiative? 

 

A sample of comments received.

 

Please click here to send your comments to us. Many thanks.

 

 

April 2008

 

"I have been a fan of The Drum Beat for a long while now." - David Sasaki, Director of Outreach for Global Voices

 

"Thank you for including us as a part of this valuable resource." - Kids with Cameras, USA

 

"I am already a subscriber to the Drum Beat, which I read regularly.  Keep up the good work!" - Barbara Becker, StoryCorps, USA

 

"We've already seen a rise in the number of requests since it has been listed on your site. Once again, thanks for featuring the Toolkit." - Janet Gunter, CAFOD, UK

 

"Comminit.com is a well known and utilized portal in the development arena so we wanted to share the information with you and we would be grateful if you can post and share the announcement with your networks and audiences." - Nilgun Aydogan, Programme Officer, GAVI Alliance Secretariat

 

"We're pleased to have a summary of our article in The Communication Initiative." - Lauren B. Movius, Doctoral Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California

 

"In Peru, we trying to be better comunicators for the better society and "The Communication Initiative" is a very usefull tool to that. Thanks for your good work" - Claudio Zavala, Peru

 

"Thank you so much. As a keen follower of the CI material, I am sure that your inclusion will help promote the competition broadly. Thanks again." - Susan Jupp, Global Forum for Health Research, Switzerland

 

"Many thanks for yours and the update on the re-constitution of the Initiative, which for me comes as excellent news indeed because the work that you have done on this and continue to do is simply invaluable." - John Mukela

 

"This is excellent! And the timing couldn't be better. We are facing a number of media freedom issues at the moment. Thank you so much for your very good work. I'll circulate this among my network as best I can." - Linda Austin, Media Resource Coordinator, Media Centre, University of the South Pacific, FIJI

 

"Thanks for including the handbook on your website. I received a number of requests for copies of the handbook from Africa and Asia." - Peter Chen, United Nations Population Fund

 

"It's a double honour of having the article posted/published in The Communication Initiative AND having it placed as a strategic primer in the  Strategic Section." - Syed T.S. Hassan, Department of Community Health, Universiti Putra, Malaysia

 

March 2008

 

 "Congratulations for this on-line initiative! It's great!" - Andre Araujo, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

 

"I am a subscriber and regular reader of your outstanding site. Drum Beat is one of my favorite E-magazine. I referred your site to dozens of people. The news and information sources help me to gather knowledge and it also stimulates my thinking." - Mohammad Golam, NABI, Independent Consultant & Journalist, Bangladesh

 

"I'm doing some work for IDRC on impact assessment of ICT4D projects, and just wanted to write and say how very useful have been the ICT4D evaluation links and summaries provided by CI.  They've saved me hours and hours of work, and I've been able to find a really useful set of evaluations to work with.  Keep up the good work!" - Prof. Richard Heeks, Development Informatics Group, UK

 

"Today I had a look at the the website of your organisation, and was overwhelmed: lots of interesting information on a multitude of subjects." - Ulla Hoyer,Emmaus International, Finland

 

"my handover notes include a need to maintain a relationship with the wonderful resource that is the communications initiative." - Chris Parkinson, UNIFEM, Timor-Leste

 

"We look forward greatly to participating in your online educational outreach.  With support and admiration" - Lys Anzia, WNN - Women News Network, USA

 

"We have always appreciated your work and are happy to be featured in your publication." - Kavita Ratna, The Concerned for Working Children, India

 

February 2008

 

 

"It was nice to hear from you. I'm a great fan of CI and I'm always  encouraging others to subscribe. It is by far the best email networking letter that I subscribe to. Thanks again for the amazing work you folks are doing!!!" - Ross Kidd, Participatory Education Evaluation & Research, Botswana

 

"Your site looks great, and I am glad you have our Great Lakes work posted there." - Jennifer Browning, Executive Director, The Biodiversity Project, USA

 

"I enjoy the network a lot and get some great resources from it." - Deirdre Murray, Southern Regional Support and Gender Advisor, GOAL Ethiopia

 

"Thank you for giving place to my study on Tobaco Control in Turkey in your e-magazine. I am happy, many people could get information on the issue." - Nazmi Bilir MD, Prof. of Public Health, Turkey

 

"I am a mass media student and currently working on a topic realetd to women protagonist serials. This site got lots of information which i eagrly wanted to be part of my research. I would like to congratulate the site owner's and all the persons who are related to it. I also request them to please update it with more information, so that the students like me can take the benifit of that." - Spruha Deshpande

 

"Thanks for including the information about our project in Drum Beat. I'm a regular reader and really appreciate the work you do." - Michael Bosse, USA

 

"We've been receiving messages from friends and colleagues who say that they've seen that announcement. It's clear that they share our pride in being associated with you." - Daniel Enger,  Burkina Faso

 

"Thank you for the wonderful support you are giving us. We sincerely appreciate what Drum Beat is doing for our communities." - Warren Nebe

 

"I take this opportunity to thank you for this very useful newsletter and website. Extremely resourceful!" - Stephane P Rousseau, Vietnam

 

"Thank you very much - as well for this very good platform!" - Heidrun Schmitt, Germany

 

"I have always found your information very useful, particularly as related to AI." - Harsaran Pandey, India

 

"Thank you very much for your request to circulate this message to the senior officials. I will circulate this information to the Directors and division heads. In our institution most of our scientists and technicians find CI very useful and informative. As you well known I am the regular viewers of CI sites and it is really covered all sorts of communication activities going on in the each and every corner of the world. Again thanks for your interest and feel free for any kind of further cooperation." - Manoj Thakur, Communication Officer, Nepal Agri. Research Council, Nepal

 

"I have forwarded many of the very valuable materials I get from cominit to our past & current training participants. I'll keep doing it including this matter." - Cappia Taqueban, Thailand

 

"Many thanks for your mail. I will be pleased to receive comments from your readers!" - Jorge Chavez-Tafur, Netherlands

 

"I thank you more than 100* for your creative thinking bringing every thing from the world to my home, addis. Really am benefiting from this lovely site." - Philipos Petros, Ethiopia

 

"We have found this tool invaluable at the University of namibia for teaching both development communicaiton and health communication. Thank you and keep up your wonderful work." - Prof KingoMchombu, Namibia

 

"Great...! Keep up good work!" - Muhiuddin Haider

 

"This page is much much much better, the older look discouraged people I am sure. It looked so dated that it gave the impression that the information contained within would be dated too." - Mr. Agustin Alejandro Alcantara

 

"A great concept well-realized...love Drumbeat and Soul City...thanks" - Marsha McCoskrie

 

"I am one of the frequent visitors and ardent "fan" of the comminit domain.  Congratulation for the global utility success of the comminit web entity." - Syed Tsh

 

 

January 2008

 

 

"I think the new online platform looks great, well done!" - Anamika Nelson, Senior Program Associate, Internews Network, USA

 

"I take this opportunity to congratulate you and your team on developing and maintaining the Drum Beat. It is a useful, high quality resource." - Suzanne Simard, USA

 

"Many, many thanks for citing the article in your strategic resources section. The summary was very thorough and user-friendly. Best of luck with your future work" - Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD, Senior Associate, UPMC Center for Biosecurity, USA

 

"It is interesting to see how the site is developing - quite a feat of ICT engineering I imagine?" - Kate Mundle, Managing Director/Executive Producer, Founder ETN - Education Television Network

 

"Congratulations on your CI website, it is a tremendous resource. I also appreciate the Drum Beat emails which make it possible to see what is new at a glance." - Amy Mahan, IRNE.NET, Coordinator, Uruguay

 

"I am a fan of Drum Beat and have published several articles in your columns since 2005 concerning communications/outreach with/to street kids in Senegal, HIV/AIDS in high schools in Cameroon, etc... I really appreciate the work you do and would always participate in this great endeavor." - Helene Pieume, World Bank, Cameroon

 

"First of all, thank you so much for including us again -- it really helps!" - Dawn Ellen Carey, Awards Program Coordinator, Global Health Council, USA

 

"Congratulations on the CI Network - it's useful, very interesting and thought provoking. The updated website is great." - Andrée Poulin, Consultant, Canada

 

"Very much appreciated! In almost every alert of Communication Initiative we find relevant links, resources, events that are very useful to our work/website. Best wishes and keep up the good work." - Henk van Dam, Netherlands

 

"I have found the links to be very timely and useful actually." - Alicya Lloyd, Trinidad & Tobago

 

"heartfelt thanks for showcasing our award on the Drum Beat! This is a huge thing for our outreach efforts." - Estelle Fach, Programme officer, HIV/AIDS Group, Bureau for Development Policy United Nations Development Programme

 

"Thanks very much for the funding opportunities. I am very grateful for every information you send me. They have been very helpful to me." - Joshua Aluh, Cameroon

 

"Being featured in the Drum Beat will greatly enhance the visibility of the competition and allow many broadcasters to participate. That's fantastic!" - Sarah Bel, Publication Officer, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation ACP-EU, Netherlands

 

"I just took a look at your new web layout and I think it looks great!... Seems like Comminit is always growing in new directions--exciting to see!" - Stephanie Lepsoe, Canada

 

"Thank you for giving our piece your attention, and for featuring it on the Drum Beat website.  I continue to promote the site to my students and to a broad range of colleagues!" - Corinne L. Shefner-Rogers, Ph.D., University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Department of Family & Community Medicine/MPH Program

 

"i am one of the frequent visitors and ardent "fan" of the comminit domain congratulation for the global utility success of the comminit web entity it's almost a global village for dissemination, discussion, evaluation (to a certain extent), assessing challenges etc to help sort out suggestions a dn possible solution for human development, especially for those unfortunate peoples" - Syed Tsh

 

 

December 2007

 

 

"Many thanks for your email.  This all looks wonderful and it's great to have such coverage by The Communication Initiative." - Sophie Williamson, TVE, UK

 

"You have a wonderful and extremely informative website. I have used it for quite some time now in my research endeavors." - Edward House, ICT for Education & Development, USA

 

"Thanks for this message and for your strong synthesis of the background paper" - Thomas Scalway, Health Communication Consultant

 

"I must congratulate you for this issue of the Drum Beat on Human Rights. A great job of putting together some really interesting stories." - Silvia Balit, Italy

 

"Thank you for posting our call for entries on your site. I actually just subscribed to the Community Initiative site this evening and am awaiting approval. Thank you for providing a forum for us to reach filmmakers and others who may be interested in our event. Your organization gave us a nice mention in The Drum Beat last year. We really do appreciate your support. I'll make sure to send you any press releases that I think may interest you." - Linda Lopez, President, Media Communications Association - International, USA

 

"Thank you for making clearer what can be accessed.  The resources of the Communication Initiative are awesome and very useful." -  Joan M. Sakalas, Executive Director - Project Against Violent Encounters

 

"I find the new arrangement of the CI pages easier to handle. Very professional approach to design. Thanks." - K.P. Madhu, Malaysia

 

"I find your News letters very infomative keep up the good work. Since I have started browsing your newletters I have created a very good network aound the globe.Thank you." - Nokhuthula Tandinyama, Director, Tamamu Network, Zimbabwe

 

"You are doing a wonderful work. I admire at your websites and information that you provide." - John Joshva Raja, UK

 

 

November 2007

 

 

"Thank you, this is a wonderful opportunity!" - Chelsea Wieber, Associate Managing Editor, Global Envision, Mercy Corps

 

"Thank you so much for featuring the campaign on your site. I'm also subscribed to the Drum Beat, and have found the resources incredibly useful and provocative." - Jac sm Kee, Association of Progressive Communications, Women's Networking Support Programme

 

"you guys are vey wonderfull in your jobs you have eniched me greatly knowledge wise." - Samson Ikennaa, Deputy General Secretary, National Association of Nigeria nurses and midwives

 

"Thank you for your continued interest and support in our activities." - Chris Parkinson, UNIFEM

 

"I should congratulate you & the team for making & managing & posting the instantly available, 365/24 & free, gateway and repository of vast knowledge & info base. It is a highly commendable effort for world development, especially the 3rd world countries. There are no words enough to express my appreciation." - Syed Hassan, Malaysia

 

"Drum Beat is a very good e-newsletter and I follow it with interest." - Venka Simovska

 

"i appreciate the very good work done by your group, and have gotten your email newsletters for ages now." - Steve Smith

 

"what a great and useful initiative! I am the Education for Development Manager at UNICEF Canada and am particularly interested in youth involvement in the media. Thanks again and I always enjoy the news I receive through the Drum Beat." - Caroline Keenan, Canada

 

"The links you send me are excellent with great information on Pakistan. They will be a great help to us in our work." - Ms.Rose Gill, Researcher/Social Activist, Pakistan

 

"You are doing an excellent job to generate and disseminate evidence for development. It is really good to know so many good pages for Pakistan." - Shahzad Ali Khan, Pakistan

 

"You do a wonderful job with the vacancy listings. Unfortunately they are shared so infrequently that at least 1/3 to 1/2 are already dated and often no longer available. A weekly, ongoing sharing would be helpful to those using the listings. DevelomentEx.com does this, fully understanding the importance of timeliness and the need to act. Employment listings are significantly different in requiring timeliness. i.e., a time limit for responding from other develpment news and information that is posted. Strong recommendation that you seriously consider the audiences using these listings rather than be tied to the kind of schedule now being used." - Jesse Hackes, USA

 

"I am gratefull to you and the comminit team for showing such great concern for the users all around the globe." - Mehwish Batool, Pakistan

 

"This is great news, thanks so much. Since your email we've actually received numerous requests for the publication. The Communication Initiative's collaboration is a wonderful asset and very much valued." - Jeanne Lawler, Culture, HIV and AIDS, UNESCO, France

 

"Thank you for getting in touch. I have always benefited from the Drum Beat Network thus also disseminated information from Comminit to the ICT news and information networks I have been contributing including locally and international" - Fouad Riaz Bajwa, Independent Writer and Researcher, FOSS Advocate, Pakistan

 

"I really appreciate your website/use it lots" - Neil Poetschka, Manager, Sydney Hospital, Austalia

 

"We highly appreciate that you are spreading the news of the upcoming festival" - Anne Lassner, PRIX JEUNESSE INTERNATIONAL, Germany

 

"This is very well done. And I realize now that you actually have very interesting things on your Drum Beat." - Anatole Krattiger

 

"I am pleased to have Population Council efforts profiled in the Drumbeat, as I am a subscriber and regularly pass on the information that I read." - Diane M. Rubino, MA, Population Council, USA

 

"The CI website is educative, enlihghten and comprehensive espicially to organisations who are working on health related issues. Keep it up, thank you very much." - Muhammad Umar, Nigeria

 

"Thanks so much for this and for the incredible work you do with the Drum Beat. Phenomenal source of information!" - Jacqueline C. Patterson

 

"Thank you for helping to focus attention on this area of global need." - anonymous

 

"You need to be commended for a job well done. This page and all your efforts are helpful and will go a long way in helping people on the ground to have a bettwer skill and approcah in the global fight against this global treat." - anonymous

 

"The knowledge content of your website is commendable. It may be possible to commence value-adding in the future, by establishing an online journal or bulletin type e-publication within this knowledge repository. Then more researchers would be attracted to this website, hence multiplying and enhancing the knowledge content." - Syed Hassan

 

"I want to thank you so much for the wonderful work and effort to put this valuable information on the internet ,it so helful for me as a youth mobilizer to achieving the MDGs in my country Nigeria. Keep posting this kind of information for the youth for they are at the center of the Action to achieve the MDGS." - anonymous

 

 

October 2007

 

 

"Thank you for the brilliant summaries you wrote on our IFRP work." - Ineke Buskens, South Africa

 

"...looks like a very fine and interesting site, and I plan to spend more time brow[s]ing through it, and will certainly use it in future." - Dewald Roode

 

"I really appreciate receiving Drum Beat, and make major use of it when I'm teaching my course on electronic media and national development." - Donald Browne, Prof of Communication Studies, USA

 

"Thank you very much for your great work for us. I am really happy with your help to globalize our work and publication POTRET. You have made our dream happens. I have seen the information you made for POTRET. So, I deserve to thank very much for this. I believe that there will be more people know about our work and effort.." - Tabrani Yunis, Center for Community Development and Education, Indonesia

 

"We appreciate The Communication Initiative's interest in our development contribution on Telecenters and circulating it through your feature newsletter. Kindly include us on your email list. We will also look forward to other mutually beneficial ways of collaboration with Comminit as well in the near future. " - Fouad Riaz Bajwa, FOSS Advocate, International Free and Open Source Software Foundation, USA

 

"For us - the team of the Home Alone project, children, and parents, leaders of the community and the facilitators - would it be of a great honour and joy to count on the moral support and the indirect help by the Communication Initiative in the work to share the knowledge of this forgotten and invisible group of children." - Lena Wall, Director

 

"Many thanks for including the publication on your website and thereby helping us to disseminate it to a wider audience." - Ellie Meleisea, Editor and Project Officer, ICT in Education section, APEID, UNESCO Bangkok

 

"Thanks for these most succinct & brilliant summaries!" - Dr. Alan Jaffe, Infant Feeding Research Project, South Africa

 

"Thank you for choosing to include us in your huge number of noteworthy groups and individuals, interested in development and change. We are honored to be among you all, and to participate through your website, and look forward to The Drum Beat." - Ron Krate, Founding CEO, International Professors Project, USA

 

"I find the content of the two news letters intelectually stimulating. I have found many useful ideas for my teaching and research." - Eustace Muhondwa, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania

 

"All your help and assistance is very much appreciated" - Zeeshan Khan

 

"Communication Initiative is doing a great job in bringing together not only communication-minded people but everybody whose business is to "talk with" people in all levels in all sectors to exchange ideas and decide on the better alternative to improve one's situation. Carry on this great job!" - Ofelia Valdecanas, UNICEF, Philippines

 

"I appreciate the fact that Communication Initiative keeps us in their mix!" - Stephanie Guyer-stevens, USA

 

"Thank you for adding a summary of our program to the Communication Initiative website. We greatly appreciate your assistance in spreading the word about this fellowship opportunity among the international community!" - Jessica Martin, Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program, USA

 

"Thank you so much for putting such detailed information on the website." - Suria Lloyd, Suria Lloyd, Development Associate, Youth Venture - New England Region, USA

 

"Thanks again for the Communication Initiative's help in launching the ECiF series. I can happily tell you that the download activity from our website has been incredible... " - Alan Kikuchi-White, External Relations Officer, Bernard van Leer Foundation, The Netherlands