National eXtension Initiative

eXtension is excited to offer the National Community of Practice (CoP) Workshop this summer in Louisville, Kentucky, June 28-30. Review the agenda and register for the conference. Pre-registration ends June 1. So don’t delay get registered today!

Communities are encouraged to take advantage of their time together and schedule either pre or post meetings at the host hotel by contacting Carla Craycraft to schedule meeting space.

A Content Management Board (CMB) meeting is scheduled pre-conference on Monday at 2:30 p.m. If you are a member of the CMB please plan to attend.

Hotel accommodations should be reserved no later then May 27. If you have never attended an event in downtown Louisville we think you will find it convenient to the Louisville International Airport and ideal for walking off-site for dinner with your colleagues and friends.

Join us and submit an abstract for presentation June 28-30, 2011 at the National eXtension CoP Workshop in Louisville, Kentucky.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 8TH:
Abstract Deadline: March 8TH. Read more about it and Submit your Abstract.

Six target areas for presentation:

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

eXtension held an outstanding first National eXtension Conference in St. Louis, MO October 20-23, 2009.  Many breakout sessions were web cast nationwide and recorded for future viewing.  The following is a list of those breakout sessions and the URLs for the recordings.  Simply click on the URL and you will be able to view and hear the sessions:

Wednesday, October 21

How to Host Your Own Webinar and Why
Floyd Davenport
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p25052985/

Technologies for Creating Educational Content for Online Programs
Floyd Davenport
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p99441424/

Yes, a multi-state collaboration can produce success, plus more!
Jody Johnson
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p76983911/

How the Virtual News Room Works for You
Lynette Spicer
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p48401053/

Thursday, October 22

Sensemaking for Qualitative Research: The research methodologies used by the Ask an Expert Task force
Kevin Gamble
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p14656678/

Using eXtension Tools, Technologies, and Concepts to Improve Extension Work
Jerold R. Thomas
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p22517464/

Guidelines for Information Technology-based Promotion & Tenure Expectations and Metrics: A Proposal
Robert Hughes, Jr.
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p88595072/

Implementing the eXtension Widget on County web sites in Ohio: A case study
Jerry Thomas
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p42389451/

Evaluate Your Content with Google Analytics (by Category)
Ben MacNeill
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p33068519/

Be, Grow, Create Phase 2 @ Oregon State
Mark Anderson-Wilk, Alex Stone, and John McQueen
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p53661579/

Introducing ideas for establishing a social media strategy
Anne Adrian
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p97065919/

Assessing County Extension Program’s Readiness to Adopt Technology: They Don’t Know What They Don’t Know
Dana Martin and Jeff Hino
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p35128725/

Effective Review Standards: The Role of Authors, Editors, Reviewers, Users, and Communicators in Quality Control and Usability
Mark Anderson-Wilk
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p61842397/

A Creative Approach to Generating eXtension Publications in the Family Caregiving CoP
Amy F. Hosier
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p44999712/

eXtension held an outstanding first National eXtension Conference in St. Louis, MO October 20-23, 2009.  Many sessions were web cast nationwide and recorded for future viewing.  The following is a list of conference GENERAL sessions and the URLs for the recordings.  Simply click on the URL and you will be able to view and hear the sessions:

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Welcome

• Dan Cotton, Director, eXtension
• Karen Hinton, Dean and Director
• University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
• Chair of the eXtension Governing Committee
• Public Launch of the Extension Wildfire Information Network (EWIN)

Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present
Bob Johansen, Institute for the Future
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p53095789/

Ask an Expert Task Force Results
Kevin Gamble, eXtension Associate Director of Technology
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p12261706/

Institutionalization of eXtension Panel
Representatives from each Extension Region
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p20232503/

USDA Perspective
Roger N. Beachy, Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), United State Department of Agriculture
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p39714451/

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Embracing the Chaos (& other scary tales from the social web)
Tara Hunt, Author, The Whuffie Factor Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Citizen Agency
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p26037816/

Friday, October 23, 2009

Cultivating Partnerships and Resource Development Panel

• Michael Ouart, Vice Provost for Extension, University of Missouri Extension, Chair, eXtension Finance Committee
• James Wade, Executive Director, ECOP, and Director of Extension and Outreach, Association of Public and Land- grant Universities
• Deborah Sheely, Deputy Administrator, Competitive Programs, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Cathann Kress, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Military Community and Family Policy
• Randel Raub, Director of Research and New Product Development, Purina Mills
• Michael McGirr, National Program Leader, Sustainable Development, Global Engagement, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p29888201/

National eXtension Awards

• Community of Practice Partnership Award
• Community of Practice Individual Achievement Awards
• Outstanding Community of Practice
• eXtension Champion Award

http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p46899902/

eXtension 2010 and Beyond

• Expectations for 2010 including key milestones projected to occur
• Alternate Content Management System options
• New tools and technologies to be implemented in 2010
• Metrics task force report and reporting tools
• Report of Be, Grow, Create status and roll out
• Scholarship of eXtension
• New Partnerships

Closing Comments
Keith L. Smith, Director, Ohio State University ExtensionIncoming Chair of the eXtension Governing Committee
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p72493462/

12:00 (Central): Lunch Speaker: Embracing the Chaos (& other scary tales from the social web) Tara Hunt, Author, The Whuffie Factor, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Citizen Agency

Watch it here:
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/versailles

Tara Hunt

Tara Hunt is a leading authority on online communities—how they are changing our culture and how businesses must behave in order to succeed in the participatory web economy. She is one of the most respected and cited thought leaders in community marketing—how to delight and enchant the people in the communities your company serves with products, experiences and communications that honor an all-new set of expectations. The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business is Tara’s new breakthrough book on community marketing. It provides the strategic map and specific tactics for success in the new economy and its elusive, lucrative world of online communities.

2009 eXtension National Conference
Call for Abstracts/Presentations

Mark your calendars! The 2009 eXtension National Conference will be held in St. Louis MO. October 20-23 and we are looking for members of Institutional Teams and county staff, as well as CoP members to present abstracts about eXtension implementation at state and local level, effective use of eXtension tools and techniques, CoP successes and strategies, and other key topics for roundtable discussions.

General conference information can be found at:
http://about.extension.org/wiki/2009_eXtension_National_Meeting

Abstracts are due by JUNE 10, 2009 and information about submission and the submission forms can be found at:
http://about.extension.org/wiki/2009_Abstract_Submission

Please note that eXtension will reimburse the conference registration fee ($225) to the lead author/presenter of each presented abstract!

If you have questions please contact:
Carla Craycraft, Conference Planning Committee Co-Chair
carla.craycraft@uky.edu

As a CoP members you can now participate in a monthly Web conferences that is hosted by the Content team for eXtension. These Web conferences will be informal and you can join when your schedule permits. These are not required conferences but just a mechanism to share information, provide a discussion forum, answer questions, provide training (like maybe the Wiki tip of the month!), share products being developed by CoPs, etc.

The monthly web conferences will be every third Tuesday of the month at 2 PM (Eastern), 1 PM (Central), 12 PM (Mountain), and 11 AM (Pacific) and are scheduled for one hour. The first Web conference will be on May 16th. We will be posting information about the Web conferences on the About eXtension blog (http://about.extension.org) as well.

The National Equine Resource Team, known as HorseQuest, joined together last week in Lexington, Kentucky to focus on developing content. This hands on meeting facilitated member involvement in the eXtension Communities of Practice Wiki where they further developed material for four educational learning modules. The team was excited to accept new members who hit the ground running and quickly found their place in this ongoing content development.

Discussion also focused on what characteristics should exist to engage in partnerships with groups both in and outside the Cooperative Extension System. Team members brought some really exciting opportunities to HorseQuest and eXtension that can soon be shared with other CoPs.

Despite the fast approaching deadline for launching their equine resources, they still found time and enthusiasm in discussing next steps and began dialogue on how a more robust youth component should be included and the specific audience to targeted.

Additional topics of discussion included peer review guidelines, protocol for adding and recruiting new members to the team, evaluation tactics, graduate and undergraduate student funding for specific tasks, migration of HorseQuest’s existing FAQs to the eXtension FAQ system and identified key members to participate in system testing.

A regular conference call schedule has been established to keep HorseQuest Team members in touch and engaged to take advantage of momentum stimulated during this meeting.