emmanuel anago codgo - the blog: riziculteurs du mono couffo

Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo

Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net



THE BLOGRIZICULTEURS DU MONO -

COUFFO

COMMUNICATION TOOL

Presented by :

Emmanuel S. ANAGO CODJOPhone : +229-22410445 Professional email : [email protected] email : [email protected] : http://crrmc.ilemi.net



OUT LINE

1. The blog owner

2. Communication tools

3. The blog : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

4. Objectives of your blog

5. Motivations to maintain/ update the blog

6. Perspectives

7. Challenges faced in developing and updating the blog

8. Impact of the blog

9. Visit and feedback from audience

10.Yobloco Awards incidence



Name : Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono-Couffo

Creation date : september 2006

Actors : 12 UCR, 3200 Producers

Production : about 2 800 ha/an and 5 000 tons of paddy

Type of organization: network of rice farmers which works for professionalism and defend their interests

Adress :

Lokossa, Republic of Benin

Email: [email protected]


THE BLOG OWNER



COMMUNICATION TOOLS

• Village meetings • Electronic journal ‘’Echos rizicoles’’• Blog • Web2.0 tools (facebook, twitter, …)



THE BLOG : HTTP://CRRMC.ILEMI.NET



OBJECTIVES OF YOUR BLOG

• Provide a window of visibility on the organization• Report on activities and experiences of the organization • Promote the rice sector and its actors• Develop an exchange interface with actors of rice value

chain

EDITORIAL GUIDELINE

Disseminate activities of rice farmers of Mono-Couffo and more widely news affecting rice in Benin



MOTIVATIONS TO MAINTAIN/ UPDATE THE BLOG• Free hosting• The pleasure of sharing information about our

experiences• Need of mobilization of free advises

CHALLENGES FACED IN DEVELOPING AND UPDATING THE BLOG• Mobilization of relevant information • Lack of human resources for animation of the blog• Convince colleagues in the production of articles• Control of spam and attacks



PERSPECTIVES

As institutional blogger•Develop a communication service for the benefit of rice cropping •Promote an information point on the marketing of rice

As individual blogger•I launched my personal blog •Mot de la faim : http://faimzero.ilemi.net•Sharing information about agriculture and action against hunger



IMPACT OF THE BLOG

On our activities

•Increased request of collaboration (call for papers, workshop, exchange visit, supervision of students, ...)

•proactivity in research of specific information

•Increased of our activities in network

On other agric actors •Restarting of 2 institutional websites previously abandoned

– CCR-B : http://www.ccrb.bj – FUPRO Bénin : http://www.fupro.org



VISIT AND FEEDBACK FROM AUDIENCE

• Too few comments and participation from readers (case of rubric ‘’Opinion’’)

• Responses received are requests for collaboration and congratulations

• Visitors use preferably the rubric ''Actors and actions'' and ''Library (capitalization paper in particular)’’

Statistics provided by SPIP



YOBLOCO AWARDS INCIDENCE

• On average 19 visits a day (16 before YoBloCo Awards)

• Nearly 2000 visitors since YoBloCo Awards started

• Ardyis.cta.int is the 3rd incoming link to the blog and 50% of the incoming link in one day

Statistics provided by SPIP



A VERY YOUNG RICE

FARMER TELLS YOU THANK

YOU!

emmanuel anago codgo - the blog: riziculteurs du mono couffo

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