What Are You Saying About The Communication Initiative?

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2010 Comments

"It is a great honor to be featured on the Media Development Theme of The Communication Initiative. Many thanks for your kind cooperation and great support." - Raghu Mainali, Coordinator, Community Radio Support Centre/NEFEJ, Nepal

"Thanks for the regulr drumbeat news, in a world where I stay is pretty remote, this news keeps me connected to the fast changing world I happy to receive the DRUMBEAT  & keep me on the mailing list." - Danesh Kumar, India

"The setting up of the CI Stories section is a good idea, hopefully we also will be able to add our success story to it." - Anna Fischer, Program Coordinator, Open Society Justice Initiative, Budapest

"You guys did a nice write-up of Dana Alikhani's project to promote social networking for migrant workers in the Gulf.  I'm very pleased to report that the project just made the finals of the Knight News Challenge." - Anne Nelson

"Last year many of the entrants for the Special Award had first learned about it through your site and we really hope that many more will have the opportunity in 2010." - Leanne Dmyterko, One World Media, UK

"The information looks good and thank you for spreading the purpose and mission of the website. Already several UN cluster groups have contacted us and have found it useful and some plan to use the site for their mapping activities." - Lisa M. Hilmi, Senior Public Health Consultant, HaitiVOICES

"Thank you very much for this honor. I appreciate your interest in our initiative and believe that it will greatly help in our cause of creating a comprehensive platform where women can raise and address issues." - Nilanjana Bhowmick, Managing Editor, India

"I have logged on to your English website and it is great. So I have bookmarked it for future reference. Your network seems to be doing some great work. All the very best. Hope the little we do makes a difference collectively." - Pri Fernando, Australia

"Just thought, I'd drop in a line & commend the excellent work done by yor team..." - Rakesh Chand, Fiji

"Thanks for your email and for bringing your web site to my attention.  I expect it will be a useful resource for many of the stories I do for cbcnews.ca" - Daniel Schwartz, CBC, Canada

"Of course we know the Drum Beat and we do read this excellent newsletter regularly as well as The Communication Initiative website." - Hartfried Schmid, UNESCO, Bangkok

"Thank you so much for including a summary of the Community Tool Box on The Communication Initiative's site. We deeply appreciate this, as it helps us achieve our mission by disseminating our freely available capacity-building materials to a broader audience." - Christina Holt, USA

"We are most grateful for all your work.  In fact, we have seen a number of visitors follow your site's links to our site as a result.  We are also seeing web traffic from other countries where we have not had visitors before.  Again, please accept our warmest thanks." - James and Ava Kramer, India

"Love the drumbeat love CI." - Franklin Apfel, Managing Director, World Health Communication Associates, UK

"The article was educative as well as informative especially to individuals like us who are practicing in the field of journalism to know the effects of globalization and understand why developing nations have been backward In the media section i found the article educative indeed and in truth." - Latwell Nyangu, Journalist, Zimbabwe

"Thanks for all the valuable information and stimulation over the  years.  I have followed and been inspired by the information you gather and share." - Jack Byrne, Ireland

"Thanks for your email, and thanks so much for including us in your e-magazine! It looks like you have an expansive and active community, and we're excited to reach them." - William Poor, Link TV, USA

"I am written to say well-done for all the in-depth publications, experience sharing, funding opportunities, trend analysis, among other details in your global website, your website contain all the information needed to learn, & improve our work for better program outcome, eventually your team is indeed the best among others with high level of team spirit." - Umar Muhammad, State M&E Specialist & Strategic Information,Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Nigeria

"I have visited the CI website and it has a wealth of information."  -  Sithembile Ndema, South Africa

"I must congratulate you for this excellent issue [The Drum Beat]. It   has very useful articles and interesting experiences shared." -   Dr.Sarita anand, Head and Associate Professor, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi

"This is Amie, Exec. Director of GlobalGirl Media...thanks for mentioning us. Love your online mag. should you have any more response or know of any other girl-related media/journalism and peer to peer websites, please let me know!" - USA 

"A PLEASURE to appear on Drum Beat. Of course I will be sharing possible outcomes in CI Stories if there are interactions after the publication." - Jordi de Miguel, Spain

"Thanks very much for updating the YTS posting. It looks very good. Appreciate the effort you put into making it read so well." - Bardolf Paul, Yayasan Tabuhak Sinta, Indonesia

"Many thanks for including our article in your website. We are happy to have this piece reach a larger audience." - Elizabeth Westley, Coordinator, International Consortium for Emergency Contraception, USA

"APCICT is happy to hear that The Communication Initiative will be featuring our case study publications.  The Communication Initiative is a valuable resource which I frequently utilize." - Daniel Munoz-Smith, Research Associate, UN-APCICT, South Korea

"Thank you very much for this excellent and rich email, full of important information and links. I will look at it with more time this week end. In the meantime, I want to let you know that the comminit.com site is one of my preferred link to communicate to colleagues, students and people interested in social evelopment. All my congratulations for this excellent and unique work of yours." - Bérengère de Negri, Chief of Party, C-Change Family Planning in Albania

"You’ve been supremely helping in advertising the Guardian International Achievements in Development Award for us which has resulted in an increasing number of nominations and votes." - Nicole Brown, Marie Stopes International, UK

"Your newsletter is a very prestigious and informative bulletin with a wide outreach base to many researchers and organizations all over the world." - Surabhi Tandon

"Appreciate the exposure and I'd love to hear about any feedback you may get." - Michael Shipler, Senior Programme Advisor, Search for Common Ground, USA

"We are happy to see our project linked to other sites.... we will have new and exciting stuff going online over the next few months so keep a watch on our page..." - Nemat Hajeebhoy, Country Director, Viet Nam

"Thank you so much for the information. And thank you for featuring our work on your website. I have shared it with all the team members at Phela and we are all in agreement in that you have covered it so well that we enjoyed reading every word and sent it to our stakeholders who are also sending positive messages. It has also been a good reminder to us to always visit the site and to share more information.  Thank you very much." - Hope Dolo Serobanyane (Director), Save the Children Fund Building - Industrial Area, Lesotho

"getting a much better response on here than any other social network. facebook be blasted !!"  - Jason Brown

"Thanks again for including us this year -- it is such a great service for us!" - Dawn Ellen Carey, Awards Coordinator, Global Health Council, USA

"As a health promoter and a trainer in TfD,  find this page very important. However as a institution which champions cmmunicton for social change, I wouldrather love if the whole information package was made available to the readers. We have the information, yes but that may not be enough in itself henc we ned to cement it with other peoples experiences likethe one potrayed here. Next time consider putting it in PDF format so that readers may download and use it somewhere fo the same common benfit. Otherwise its a nice page." - Raymond Kaway, Ministry of Health, Malawi

"I have read the summary, and I thought it was fantastic. The image is great, too. I look forward to seeing it on the website." - Eluned Gramich, UK

"We've just seen you issue on theatre for development and it looks very interesting." - Analia Lavin, Association for Progressive Communications

"I looked up early childhood development and found a great article about childhood resilience in Australia.  Your work will be incredibly helpful to me at AMTP but also in my academic work." - Donna

"Your summary of the paper is on mark. I particularly like that you stressed the complementary nature of the two theories, and your mentioning of defining a target behavior. The importance and implications of the latter still are not well understood by many in the field." - Marco Yzer, University of Minnesota School of Journalism, USA

"HEALTH  is important there fore must be handled with care.You have done create job to create a link of communicating the public about their views. Keep it up as we identify what may bring solution to up coming problems long live" - Gladys Lebohang, Student, Uganda

"Thank you so much for the update and for promoting the VOT on your very valuable and highly respected wesbite." - Raphael Ogar Oko

"We find the Communication Initiative very relevant and use resources here to upload on our website for our members to use, please keep up the good work." - Jean, Senor Program Officer, GBV Prevention Network, Uganda

"many thanks for the updated email on reearch finidings and initiatives. Am eager now to engage in participatory research in the field of Media Literacy/Africa" - Dr. Alan Taylor, U.K. EU and Africa