THINKeEXTENSION

Blog, Web Log, Blogging, Blogger. You have probably heard these terms before. If you’ve been online in the last 2 years you have most likely read one, you may be subscribed to one, you might even have one. What really is a blog and why should you care if you work in Sustainable Agriculture, Natural [...]

Yesterday at the AuSHS National and Trans-Tasman Horticultural Science Conference I presented a workshop on the use of Social Media and Web2.0 to enhance horticultural extension. Participants played with wordpress, flock, rss feeds and looked at seesmic, twitter, flickr and more. To demonstrate one more rather “rockstar” tool as I left the conference a recorded [...]

I just had the opportunity to present a workshop at the National and Trans-Tasman Horticultural Science Conference on eExtension i.e. the use of Social Media and Web2.0 in Sustainable Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, and the Environment.
After some explanations and introductions we had about 25 huddled around laptops creating wordpress blog, subscribing to rss feeds, blogging [...]

If you haven’t yet met Demo Girl you will definitely be glad you did. DemoGirl or Molly McDonald as her parents named her is the Editor in Chief of DemoGirl. Molly produces free screencasts as a great introduction to all sorts of web tools. Molly can also produce a screencast for you new application on [...]

If the human race is to thrive and prosper healthy food, fuel and fibre – agriculture and healthy air, water, soil, and landscape – environment, are not nice-to-haves but necessities. In order to have healthy agriculture and a healthy planet we require thinking at a whole new level (apologies Einstein). We need thinking, which is [...]