THINKeEXTENSION

If you have been doing Extension for more that 2 weeks I have some news for you your audience is changing. They are changing the way they consume information and what they expect from information regarding the Internet and Social Media trends and a surrogate for eExtension trends the Forresters Social Technographics Report has just [...]

The Nature Conservancy is an organisation with conservation activities worldwide. They are good at conservation, they are good at fund raising, and as it happens they are quite good at eExtension. I was interested to read an article on their site entitled Big Ideas in Conservation - Harnessing Information Technology. The article was in a [...]

You may realise by now that I am a bit of a fan of blogging. A blog is the perfect platform for a Landcare Website, NRM Website, or any type of Extension Program Website. There are a stack of great (plus cheap or free) blog platforms around. They are dead simple to use and they [...]

There are 2 Million (well alot, if you have time to count them let me know) Social Media tools that make powerful eExtension tools. SlideShare is one of the simplest and you could be using it in less than 5 mins.

SlideShare allows you to create a free account (you’ll need a username, password and an [...]

It’s hard to say when it started, but it has. It’s not easy to say who is doing it, but people working in Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Watershed Management, Catchment Care, Landcare, and Environment are! And it’s not easily defined, but let’s try.
What is Extension?
To answer the question what is eExtension? We probably need to [...]

This morning Sustainablog has written a post about 10 Social Media applications that can change the world.
Ten (More) Ways to Change the World Through Social Media : Sustainablog
Is this a proposterus proposition? Universal McCann’s Wave 3 report tells us

that social media is persuasive. i.e. “36% think more positively about companies that have blogs”
22% visit a [...]

Don’t watch this video unless you have a spare hour
Don’t watch this video at work if you work for a state government department that blocks Youtube.
Don’t watch this video unless you want to consider that the world is significantly changing
and Don’t watch this video unless

Via eco2oh and THINKeEXTENSION I have promoted the use of Web2.0 [...]

While eExtension is an emerging discipline and at times hard to draw hard lines around, it is a sector that is set to explode.
At the turn of the century there were an estimated 360 Million people online worldwide, Internet Worldwide Stats estimates there are currently 1.463 Billion, predictions are that we will pass the 3 [...]

Landcare Australia Limited LAL, part of Australia’s Landcare leadership has stepped seriously into the world of eExtension with the launch of a new wordpress blog. Below is a quick video review of their new site.

Why is it important for LAL to use a blog?
As the video shows LAL’s existing website is an excellent resource, it [...]

One of the most powerful eExtension tools going is video. There are a raft of easy to use, easy to integrate video applications that make it simle for extension staff to share and receive video with landholders and stakeholders.
MobaTalk is a smoking hot new application, that like seesmic, qik, 12seconds.tv allows users to rapidly publish [...]