THINKeEXTENSION

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the business of extension whether Sustainable Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, or Environmental extension, classic moments are created. If you have been working in the industry for more than 10 minutes, you will no doubt have some of your own.
It might have been a larrakin landholder who had a spectular way of cutting to [...]

The world is changing rapidly, exponentially. If you have been working in Natural Resource Management, Agriculture or the Environment for more than 10 mins you know well that the way business is done in our fields is also changing rapidly. Thing is if we are still doing extension the way we did three years ago, [...]

This video was made simply and cheaply, and is a good example of eExtension. It captures the knowledge of this extension officer rapidly and richly.
No doubt there is a need to share information about this disease widely, and no doubt this extension officer needs to repeat much of the content in this message again [...]

Today I tryed out 12seconds.tv the latest in a wide range of video blogging application. You guessed it the video can only last 12 seconds. It clarifies your thinking, cuts the waffle and captures your first impluse. For my madien voyage a asked the same question that I asked on seesmic and qik (also video [...]

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 [...]