THINKeEXTENSION

I have written about Slideshare as an eExtension tool before, it’s free, it’s wonderful, and you should try it.  Scratchpads is a very interesting Web2.0 application that incorporates Social Media and Biodiversity Informatics.
Below is a Slideshare presentation about Scratchpads by Vincent Smith, a cybertaxonomist from the Natural History Museum, in London. The presentation was [...]

You might be looking at eExtension and looking at THINKeEXTENSION and thinking it looks good but how do I get started? It might be that you work for an organisation that bans employees for using Social Media sites like Youtube, Facebook, and MySpace. It might be that blogging, podcasting, and the thought of online video [...]

For most of my adult life I have loved a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What If?”. It’s a poem that jolts you to consider an unexpected possibility, what if?
I was speaking to a friend of mine on Monday, he works for a government department. It’s not important who or where, but like many government [...]

Roderic Page is a very clever man. We’ve never met, but I know he’s clever, because sometimes I can almost see his brain working. I see the fruit of Roderic’s significant grey matter via his considerable eExtension output. I’ll give you a quicklist so you know I’m not pulling your leg.
Blogs

bioGUID – an attempt to [...]

MobaTalk Multimedia Messaging | Video
An Integrated eExtension Strategy has 3 pillars; Listening, Sharing, and Connecting. A clever eExtensionist uses a range of tools under each of the pillars and connects content between tools to create an web of Extension that is easy to access. This post is a good example.
The video is created on Mobatalk [...]

There are many reasons people working in Agriculture, Natural Resource Management or Environment (hopefully people not working in any of these fields removed from the others) should THINKeEXTENSION. This morning, I was reminded of another when I read this report on Hunger in the Philippines.
Extension is a business of reaching out, of enabling, a business [...]

After two blog posts yesterday on  RSS and Google Reader for the listening component of an eExtension Strategy, I thought twice about this post. However this story does illustrate perfectly why RSS and a good RSS Feed Reader are fundamental to good eExtension Strategy. If you didn’t read yesterday’s posts here’s a quick explanation.
RSS stands [...]

MobaTalk Multimedia Messaging | Video
Google Reader is a free RSS Feed Reader that will allow you to stay on top of your industry and your niche. When used in tandem with Google Alerts to track key words in your niche and tools like Social Media Firehose, Icerocket, and Board Tracker
it becomes a power users [...]

Over the last 2 to 3 years (in some cases longer) more and more smart Extension Websites have been growing funny looking icons, like the one on the right. There are many variations of the image, but all these symbols mean one thing, RSS. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and true to it’s name [...]

I’ve never met Nalaka Gunawardene, however I expect when I do we’ll have plenty to talk about.
Nalaka is CEO and Director at Television for Education – Asia Pacific, an organisation “dedicated to communicating sustainable development, humanitarian and social justice issues through the audio-visual and new media”.
A mission quite parallel to the role [...]