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 [...]
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22 Jul, 2008
Can Social Media and Web2.0 save Agriculture and Environment?
Posted by: dean In: eExtension
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 [...]
If the human race is to thrive and prosper healthy food, fuel and fibre - agriculture and healthy air, water, soil, and landscape - environment, are not nice-to-haves but necessities. In order to have healthy agriculture and a healthy planet we require thinking at a whole new level (apologies Einstein). We need thinking, which is [...]
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- giulio: Thanks for sharing the article. I would also concur that the great promise in development 2.0 is about business models and strategies, not in tools pe
What is eExtension?
eExtension is the use of Web and Social Media tools to share and create Agricultural and Environmental knowledge...eExtension Rockstar Coming Soon!
