THINKeEXTENSION

The December edition of  Journal of Extension newsletter has two great eExtension articles. These articles are valuable insights into clever Extensionist’s getting leverage from simple eExtension Strategies.
How to Make a Multidisciplinary IPM Guide for Growers Using Adobe PageMaker® Templates
Auto-Responders: An E-Mail List Productivity Tool
I predict that 2009 is going to be the year of eExtension, [...]

On Friday, I was privileged to the guest speaker at a local Agforce branch meeting. We discussed Youth to Agriculture, peculiar regulation regarding the movement of B-doubles (cattle trucks), and  funding opportunities available in our part of the world. We talked about the difficulty Primary Producers often face in trying to understand the language of [...]

eXtension is an eExtension initiative with a bold vision and now it has a USDA Secretary’s Honor Award to prove it. The Nevada News reports that Dean Karen Hinton and 24 team members accepted the award at a ceremony in Washington.
Hinton said the goal of eXtension is to be a trusted source of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Extension is a social business. It is a business of sharing information, building networks, supporting decisions, and hopefully sharing victories. More and more businesses are developing Social Media strategies to do similar things, build networks, listen to customers, offer after sales support and so much more. Before long a business without a Social Media presence [...]

MobaTalk Multimedia Messaging | Video
A blog is a simple but powerful tool, it’s a partticular type of website that is;

easy to update (you don’t need a web designer)
it’s automatically files and archives content in an easy to search / find format
it serves up dates as a feed (i.e. readers can subscribe and get latest articles [...]