National eXtension Initiative

Readers gathered to talk books at the Association for Communication Excellence June 15 in St. Louis.

#1 recommendation – The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity by Richard Florida, 2010

Other books recommended by the session leaders
Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today by Susan Scott, 2009
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin, 2010
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison, 2010
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, 2010
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida, 2003
Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business by Erik Qualman, 2009
World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories by David Meerman Scott, 2009

What those attending the session are reading or recommend
Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk, 2009
The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing our Lives by Frances Cairncross, 2001
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynn Truss, 2006
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland, 2009
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Revised and Expanded Edition by Oliver Sacks, 2008
The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig, 2006
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call, 2007
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell, 2002
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan, 2006

Looking forward to new books
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky, was released June 10. He is the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, 2009.

David Weinberger is working on a book. He is the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, 2000.

During the 2010 eXtension CoP Workshop, keynote speakers,  David Warlick and Meslissa Rach, were recorded (thank you Floyd Davenport and Robin Brekke) as well as many breakout sessions on following tracks: social media, content management, CoP Management, and Institutional.

We hope you enjoy viewing the following recorded sessions.  Please share any insight or comments you found in these sessions by commenting on this blog post or any other social network you may have picked up since the workshop!

Keynotes:

Title: Welcome and David Warlick ‘Networked Learning: the Buffet is Ready‘
URL for Viewing:  http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p39785564/
Duration:   01:18:19; Welcome (00:00:00-00:17:42) and David Warlick (00:17:42-01:18:19)

Title: Melissa Rach ‘Adventures in Online Content’
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p29894575/
Duration:  00:54:57

Breakout Sessions:

Social Media

Title:  Blogs, Blogs, and more Blogs
Presenters: Karen Jeannette, Emily Tepe, Henrietta Ritchie-Holbrook
URL for Viewing:  http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p34955081/
Duration: 00:53:59

Title: Twitter 1: Using Twitter for Outreach and Education
Presenters:Karen Jeannette, Chris Raines, Ashley Fondren
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p69598545/
Duration:  00:54:50

Title:  Twitter 2: Twitter it Up – A Twitter Management Lab
Presenters:Karen Jeannette, Chris Raines, Ashley Fondren
URL for Viewing:  http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p81669752/
Duration:  00:46:01

Title:  Social Media Tools Expand the Reach of eXtension
Presenters:Chris Raines, Ashley Fondren
URL for Viewing:  http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p51796765/
Duration:  00:53:53

Title:  Facebook: Beyond Your Personal Profile
Presenter: Amy Hays
URL for Viewing:  http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p94011987/
Duration: 00:59:13

Title:  Second Life for Newbies
Presenter: Luann Phillips
URL for Viewing:   http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p43995985/
Duration:  01:00:48

Title:  Second Life for Newbies Part II
Presenter: Luann Phillips
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p51126698/
Duration: 00:32:57

Title:  Second Life – Livability House (partial recording)
Presenters: Debra M. Sellers, Sarah Kirby, LuAnn Phillips
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p52142533/
Duration:  00:23:38

CoP Management

Title:  Marketing for the new Millennium
Presenter: Terry Meisenbach
URL for Viewing:  http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p93161902/
Duration: 00:52:46

Title: Developing Evaluation Markers for Success
Presenter: Mike Lambur
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p62133532/
Duration: 00:53:41

Title: Community Certification and Leadership
Presenter: Craig Wood
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p15257844/
Duration:  00:45:14

Title: Developing a CoP Tool Kit
Roundtable Discussion Leader: Betsy Greene
URL for Viewing:  http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p45461865/
Duration:  01:02:23

Title: Developing Partnerships
Presenter: Donna Amaral-Phillips
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p75099095/
Duration:  00:40:00

Title: Engaging and Integrating the Research Community
Presenters: Alex Stone, Debra Heleba
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p13832969/
Duration:  00:44:41

Title: Experiencing eXtension: This is a Course For You!
Presenter: Nancy Porter
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p20793665/
Duration: 00:52:50

Title:  TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More
Presenter: Marissa Stone
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p44836069/
Duration: 00:47:27

Content Management

Title:  Using Google Wave I
Presenters: Kevin Gamble, Beth Raney
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p21353721/
Duration: 00:54:06

Title: Using Google Wave Part 2
Presenters: Kevin Gamble, Beth Raney
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p82949880/
Duration: 00:54:47

Title: Google Knol for Article Creation
Presenter: Denise Attaway
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p56632982/
Duration: 00:41:16

Title: Mapping It Up
Presenter: Shane Brandt
URL for Viewing:  http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p60843403/
Duration: 00:37:29

Title: You Too Can be a Producer
Presenter: Eric Taylor
URL for Viewing:  http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p55962915/
Duration:  00:44:20

Institutional

Title:  MSUE Educators’ Perception of the Use of Digital Technology -a doctoral dissertation
Presenter:  Elizabeth Wells
URL for Viewing: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p15693155/
Duration: 00:45:11

“We are very excited to report that the 2010 National eXtension CoP Workshop was a great success,” said Craig Wood, eXtension associate director. “We had Communities of Practice represented from all stages of development: launched (many pioneer CoPs), to newly launched, to those developing content, to those most recently named. More seasoned CoP members were mentoring newer members; eXtension staff were training and advising; and all were engaged in an outstanding learning process.”

More than 180 Extension professionals participated in the 2010 National eXtension CoP Workshop held June 6-8, 2010 in Austin, Texas. Participants attended 55 concurrent sessions on topics like Moodle, Google Wave, Using the Wiki, Google Knol, Facebook & Twitter, marketing, evaluation, social media strategies, development, collaboration and more. Two outstanding keynote speakers, David Warlick of the Landmark Project and Melissa Rach of Brain Traffic were featured. The group was welcomed to Texas by Texas Agrilife Extension Director Ed Smith.

More than 23 concurrent sessions as well as both keynote addresses were recorded and web cast during the meeting. The recording URLs for these sessions will be posted to the conference web site: http://about.extension.org/the-2010national-cop-workshop/ as soon as they are available.

By popular demand, Ask an Expert now supports image upload. This brand new feature allows people to submit up to three images with their question. They can also submit additional images in any AaE follow-up responses. Image upload is live on the Ask an Expert form on the Public Site (with a new, cleaner design) at extension.org/ask.

It’s also available for the Ask an Expert Widgets (only one photo can initially be uploaded with widgets). To get image upload for your widget, you need to opt-in to the feature on your widget admin page: http://www.extension.org/widgets/aae/list (login required)

We hope this new feature makes it easier to answer questions that have a visual component. If you’ve got comments or questions about image upload you can comment here on this post or drop us an email to feedback@extension.org. thanks!

Plans are underway for a National eXtension Virtual Conference to be held October 18-20, 2010. The conference program will feature nationally recognized speakers, interaction between speakers and attendees, multiple presentation formats and technologies, and more. The NeVC2010 will build on the National eXtension Conference held in October 2009 and involve participants in topics related to collaboration, social media trends and issues, future thinking and trending, and more. Please mark your calendars and look for more information as conference plans progress.

eXtension is pleased to announce that Dr. Kyle Kostelecky, a State Extension Specialist in Intergenerational Programs with Iowa State University Extension, has agreed to become the new Project Leader of the eXtension Supporting Military Families Partnership. Kyle is scheduled to being his new duties June 7, 2010. He will be responsible for helping to design and lead eXtension efforts in support of educational programming for military families and youth helping professionals. He will help to establish a new Military Families Community of Practice, establish new CoPs in topical areas that will support military helping professionals and engage audiences using appropriate social media.

Kyle brings a wealth of experience to his new position as he has served in the US Navy working in the Chaplains Corps as a Religious Program Specialist and later as a Medical Service Corps officer in the US Army. His Bachelors degree is in Sociology from Washington State University, while his Masters and PhD are in Human Development and Family Studies from Iowa State University. He has held tenure-track/tenured faculty positions at the University of Arizona South Sierra Vista, Arizona, the University of Northern Iowa and the University of Wyoming, and in his faculty role with Iowa State University. Also, Kyle has served as an important member of the Family Caregiving Community of Practice.

We are very fortunate to have attracted Kyle to the Project Leader role. We look forward to working with Kyle in support of the Military Families Partnership with the Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Military Community and Family Policy (MC & FP), and the United States Department of Agriculture – National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA – NIFA).

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Anne Adrian, State Extension Technology Specialist, Alabama Cooperative Extension, Auburn University, as eXtension’s new Social Media Strategist for the eXtension – Military Families Partnership. Anne started her new duties May 1. Already, she is at work developing and implementing social media strategies to engage military family helping professionals and in building the new Military Families Community of Practice.

Anne is recognized as a national technology leader and someone who has been helping Cooperative Extension understand the importance and advantages of using social media to network and engage with clientele. Her Bachelors and Masters degrees are in Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, while her Ph.D. is in Management, all her degrees are from Auburn University.

Anne adds an exciting new dimension to the eXtension program and we look forward to her energy and excitement in helping to build the eXtension – Military Families Partnership supported by the Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Military Community and Family Policy (MC & FP), and the United States Department of Agriculture – National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA – NIFA).

Five new eXtension Communities of Practice are now being formed. Lead institutions are also listed:

•Apple-Root Stock Varieties-University of Minnesota
•Precision Agriculture-North Dakota State University & Purdue University
•Teen Leadership-Prairie View A & M University
•Invasive Species-University of Georgia
•Community Health-Auburn University

For information on joining these CoPs and getting involved in collaboration and developing content contact Craig Wood, craig.wood@extension.org.

Next week, June 7 and 8, eXtension will host a National CoP Workshop in Austin, TX. A number of the sessions from the conference will be web cast and recorded and available in real time for persons who cannot be in Austin. Keynote speakers David Warlick of the Landmark Project and Melissa Rach of Brain Traffic as well as more than 20 concurrent sessions are available.

For more information and how to join these web casts go to: http://about.extension.org/the-2010national-cop-workshop/watch-online/

An “Ask an Expert” partnership of the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (ACES), eXtension, and Bonnie Plants is now operational. A new ACES position, Outreach Programs Administrator, funded by Bonnie Plants was filled earlier this month to handle incoming questions. The Ask an Expert widget is now up and running on the Bonnie Plants home page and on their other pages with how-to-grow content: http://www.bonnieplants.com/

As reported on May 20, fifteen questions have already been received in the last few days (a dozen in the last 24 hours) from nine states.

Both eXtension and ACES are gaining visibility from this unique partnership. Thanks go especially to the eXtension application development team for their cooperation, hard work, and patience in helping to make this project a reality.