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eXtension is pleased to announce a new Community of Practice - Omega-3. Debrah M. Palmer, Rutgers University, provides leadership for ...

eXtension's professional development opportunities are open to all Cooperative Extension faculty, staff and employees. No pre-registration is required. Please share ...

In an effort to expand our approaches to identify appropriate Communities of Practice that are relevant to the Extension system, ...

CES directors/administrators are being asked to identify potential Communities of Practice that best match their top regional needs (excluding current ...

Last fall, CES directors/administrators were asked for feedback regarding whether non-CES institutions should be allowed to become members of eXtension ...

It's late but do use on your news site if you can. Jill Heemstra from the Livestock and Poultry Environmental ...

This past Spring eXtension created a task force to study opportunities and issues around the eXtension Ask an Expert service ...

To date, eXtension has been developing new Communities of Practice (CoP) through three approaches: 1) voluntary applications from content areas, ...

The eXtension Governing Committee has approved a draft policy to support the acceptance of non-CES institutions as state affiliate members ...

At the October 20-23, 2009 National eXtension Conference eXtension will recognize a high performing Community of Practice (CoP) and individuals ...

Few Americans are exempt from the stresses of the national financial and economic crisis. The Extension Committee on Organization and ...

eXtension's professional development opportunities are open to all Cooperative Extension faculty, staff and employees. No pre-registration. Please share this announcement ...

In May, 309 news releases from 33 states were posted for 31 communities of practice. This is the largest number ...

The purpose of the eXtension fellowship program is to provide opportunities for qualified individuals, within or outside of Cooperative Extension, ...

These reports are now available at: https://www.extension.org/wiki/eXtension_State_and_Institutional_Reports We will be updating them in July. We will also be generating an ...

Mark your calendars! The 2009 eXtension National Conference will be held in St. Louis MO October 20-23 and we are ...

As of June 4, 2009, more than 10,000 of all approximately 15,000 Cooperative Extension Service professionals had eXtension IDs. We’re ...

2009 eXtension National Conference Call for Abstracts/Presentations Mark your calendars! The 2009 eXtension National Conference will be held in St ...

As of May 5, 2009, nearly 9,700 of all approximately 15,000 Cooperative Extension Service professionals had eXtension IDs. We're working ...

eXtension's professional development opportunities are open to all Cooperative Extension faculty, staff and employees. No pre-registration. Please share this announcement ...

eXtension is pleased to announce a new Community of Practice on Companion Animals. The leader of this CoP is based ...

Once again the eXtension Virtual News Room has increased the number of releases available with 288 posted by 33 institutions ...

Students from six freshman soil science classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently visited the Smith-Lever Farm on one of ...

eXtension has recently distributed our first edition of state and institutional reports for eXtension. These reports are intended to keep ...

This week, eXtension added many news releases and all kinds of resources such as experts lists for media folks, special ...

On April 17, 2009, the eXtension staff decided to re-evaluate the future of the news.extension.org application in light of the ...

If you listened to last week's eXtension national conference, you know the staff is compiling reports for states and institutions ...

We've gotten several requests for a publishing short-cut button so that minor FAQ edits can go live to the Public ...

Please feel free to use, edit releases about two new communities of practice that are now public on the eXtension ...

As of April 3, 2009, nearly 9,400 of all approximately 15,000 Cooperative Extension Service professionals had eXtension IDs. We're working ...

As of today, eXtension released a youth specific design for youth content developed by Communities of Practice. Any content tagged ...

eXtension has recently approved four new “needs-based” Communities of Practice based upon a regional priority setting process. CoP names, lead ...

We are pleased to announce the approval of the first Professional Development Community of Practice. Led by Ben Silliman (NCSU) ...

eXtension will host the second of four national web conferences in 2009 on Wednesday April 15. All web conferences are ...

Need to learn about how to be more effective in conducting 4H & Youth Development programs? What about improving your ...

eXtension's professional development opportunities are open to all Cooperative Extension faculty, staff and employees. No pre-registration. Please share this announcement ...

eXtension is seeking a land grant university partner to develop and implement marketing for a new Online Investor Education component: ...

We are putting the finishing touches on our first set of eXtension state and institutional reports that we will share ...

eXtension has launched two Communities of Practice to the public this week: Goats and Small Meat Processors. The goat industry ...

eXtension participated in an Integrated Competitive Programs Grantsmanship Workshop, March 9-10, in Las Vegas, NV. The program, sponsored by the ...

Once again the eXtension Virtual News Room has increased the number of releases available with 280 posted by 32 institutions ...

Extension Directors and Administrators received copies of the 2008 eXtension Return on Investment document at the NEDA meeting in New ...

Source of news releases--sorted in descending order U of Illinois    27 North Dakota State    26 U of Arkansas    24 U ...

If you've been working in the Ask an Expert application, you've probably had a question assigned to you by either ...

As Extension professionals, we know that conversation and relationship building within our communities of practice and our communities of interest ...

The Financial Security of All community of practice wanted a news release on early retirement decisions. When an employee is ...

Releases that received some ratings by readers on the site: Back to Basics Horse Institute Planned at Auburn Slim Down ...

Use this release as is. Modify it by quoting an expert from your institution. The release is at the top ...

The organic production community of practice went live during January. If you've not checked out the content, see Organic Production ...

Noticed anything new today about signing into some of your favorite extension.org sites? Actually - we are hoping you didn't ...

If you are interested in forming a community of practice for eXtension the process is really straight forward and easy ...

On January 20, 2009, our Public Site ( www.extension.org ) will have an extended downtime. starting at 11:30pm Eastern Standard ...

We just rolled out a few new features in the FAQ/Ask an Expert application designed to help with signing-in and ...

Want to help people find answers to their questions? Work with your Extension colleagues from across the country? Help to ...

Today we released a new version of our identity and directory application (People - https://people.extension.org ). This version, the first ...

eXtension is very excited about our upcoming Community of Practice Conference to be held in Louisville, Kentucky June 24-27, 2008 ...

eXtension late last year launched a site to provide a one-stop-shop to aggregate news stories created by our partner institutions ...

Typically held the first and third Mondays of every month from 2-3:30pm ET, in the chat of the Moodle 101 ...

A tour of the Caledon group of SIMs in Second Life. Caledon is a SteamPunk (Think Juels Vern and Wild ...

Join the next meeting of planning for Extension in Second Life, using Web conferencing, on March 13th at http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/Learn at ...

eXtension will launch tomorrow, February 21, 2008 as a part of the USDA Ag Outlook Forum. Details of the launch ...

Google Presentation is a new tool introduced in September for the collaborative development of slide shows. It is cut from ...

Google Webmaster Tools is a system where you can get information about how Google sees your site and troubleshoot potential ...

Celebrate the launch of the eXtension with colleagues from across the country...and people from all over the world... at the ...

Are you tired of creating a new account on every web site you visit? Do you not sign-up for new ...

To visit Second Life, you must first sign up for a free account at www.secondlife.com, and create your personal avatar ...

This meet-up will feature a fashion exchange and appearance tutoring. Come get ideas for helping your avatar look its best ...

We'll cover the basics you need to get started working in an eXtension wiki. Whether you're part of a Community ...

It seems like everywhere you go on the Internet today someone is asking you to tag things. This session will ...

Learn how organizations are using prediction markets to chart their strategic future. Adam Siegel, co-founder of Inkling Markets (http://inklingmarkets.com/) will ...

Typically held the first and third Mondays of every month from 2-3:30pm ET, in the chat of the Moodle 101 ...

This session will show you how simple it is to use Google search technology to create a free Custom Search ...

A large percentage of the hits to your web site come from search engines. This session on search engine optimization ...

We will have our next Round Table to make plans for Cooperative Extension's areas in Second Life. Join us on ...

eXtension's Collaborate Wiki is the place for the whole Cooperative Extension System to work. This session will show you what ...

We're looking forward to a special one-hour presentation featuring attorneys Steve Wyatt and Amy Light Mills today, December 18, 2007, ...

We are very excited to announce major new features in the eXtension FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) application! This is the ...

Learn how to use the template buttons in the edit window of the CoP wiki to insert images and Flash ...

This session is an FAQ Orientation for agents/educators to find answers to your clients' questions, also how everyone can contribute ...

So you think you want to be a blogger? How you can use blogging to enhance your educational programming? What’s ...

This session will demonstrate major changes of the Updated FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) application for eXtension! We have introduced a ...

This session will show you how simple it is to use Google search technology to create a free Custom Search ...

In-MoodleMeet is held the first and third Mondays of every month from 2-3:30pm ET, in the chat of the Moodle ...

We will have the next meeting for planning for Extension in Second Life, using Web conferencing, on November 8th at ...

Come test out your audio capabiliites, learn, and share with others in an informal setting. Meet at 1 PM SLT ...

In-MoodleMeet is held the first and third Mondays of every month from 2-3:30pm ET, in the chat of the Moodle ...

This session will show you how simple it is to use Google search technology to create a free Custom Search ...

Google Presentation is a new tool introduced in September for the collaborative development of slideshows. It is cut from the ...

Do you need to understand how people read Web pages? Should you concentrate on style or format, structure, redundancy, how ...

Learn what all the excitement's about regarding Moodle. Hear what Moodle is, learn how eXtensin is making it available, and ...

Do you need to understand how people read Web pages? Should you concentrate on style or format, structure, redundancy, how ...

Help search engines find your information and ours! The basics of search engine optimization. Includes making good titles, good opening ...

Do you need to understand how people read Web pages? Should you concentrate on style or format, structure, redundancy, how ...

Yesterday, after two months of working on the redesign, we rolled out a completely new and rebuilt-from-the-ground-up About eXtension. The ...

eXtension's next iTeam meetings will be Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, September 17, 18, & 19, 2007. The sessions will run ...

TO PARTICIPATE in any of the 30 Minute sessions… Five minutes before the start time, go to the Adobe Connect ...

Multi-user virtual environments such as Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com/) are growing in popularity. Learn what Second Life is and how it ...

Many users today are preferring websites that provide information faster with a minimum amount of work necessary. Over the years, ...

Slideshare (slideshare.net) is sort of like a YouTube for sharing presentations. Agents and specialists are always looking for ways to ...

Learn about Social Bookmarking as a collaborative tool -- how to keep your work team on the same page without ...