THINKeEXTENSION

Steve Song is a big thinker, he recently spoke at a Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) workshop the Knowledge, Education, and Learning Workshop. The CGIAR ICT KM gang have been doing a great job of sharing their activity through thier Blip.tv channel.

A couple of days ago I recorded a video review of the Become a Blogger Premium Coaching offered by Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick.

In the video I spoke about the great value I have received from Yaro Starak over the last 3 years. I have done a coaching course with Yaro and found his material [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]