THINKeEXTENSION

The Beat Sheet a pioneering eExtension blog by the Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries Entomology Department has a new home. Byron New Media – a boutique Social Media Agency from Byron Bay recently had the job of shifting the site from Blogspot (a free blogging platform owned by Google) to a self hosted Wordpress blog. [...]

A Free Alternative to Survey MonkeyView more presentations from Fred Rodriguez.
Fred Rodriguez from the Texas AgriLife Extension Service created this nice deck on  creating a online survey’s. A handy tool and a great way to get started in eExtension.

If Twitter was an animal it would be a honey bee.
i.e. shows up everywhere, busily pollinating as it goes.
Twitter is an extraordinary free Social Media service that allows use to share short messages (limited to 140 characters) from your computer or by SMS from your mobile phone. The platform allows you to follow or subscribe [...]

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In the future when Agricultural, Natural Resource Management, or Environmental extension will be one discipline. Equally balancing hard and soft science, cultural, social, economic and ecological dimensions.
Small, smart, svelte organisations and innovative individuals will provide Extension services to Governments, Universities, and others wanting to reach their audience.
Extension initiatives will appear in a [...]

A good eExtension Strategy has 3 pillars

Listening – using social media applications to listen to the content and conversations taking place in your industry/niche/specialty and listening to your audience.
Sharing – using a integrated mix of social media tools to share rich media with your audience and have them share with you and one another.
Connecting – [...]

Recently I have been searching for research regarding eExtension. While there is stacks of research about social media use or internet use. I have found almost none that relates to eExtension and how it is influencing onground change in Agriculture or Environment.

Since I believe a) that our survival and prosperity depends upon healthy food [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]