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Economic Development Webinar News Release

The Webinar is Oct. 8 from Entrepreneurs and Their Communities. Topic is lessons from Littleton, Colo. using economic ‘gardening.’

Use the release, customize it for your own state Extension news. It’s at Oct. 8 Free Webinar Features Economic ‘Gardening’ to Grow Healthy Community

If you want a local (your state) angle in the article, try searching in People for Extension specialists from your state who are active in the Entrepreneurs and Their Communities community of practice.

I’ll be watching for your news releases coming into my feed!

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H1N1 Flu information on eXtension

This week, eXtension added many news releases and all kinds of resources such as experts lists for media folks, special pages and sites extension units across the country have posted.

We’ve got many angles, as you’d expect from land-grant universities. How to ease children’s concerns, how personal sanitation is a top priority, how the swine industry is suffering from misinformation…..and much more.

News and updates will keep going up as long as the virus has repercussions in this country. Send anything additional you have that eXtension folks have not posted.

http://www.extension.org/pages/Cooperative_Extension_Resources_for_Swine_Flu

–Lynette Spicer, news room manager

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RSS and Atom Feeds Provide Bulk of News for eXtension

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

Terry Meisenbach, communications and marketing leader, asked how many feeds I receive to find news for eXtension. My answer was 44 feeds, although perhaps half that number provide the bulk of the news posted on eXtension. I receive two and three feeds from several states—might be a special Web site or blog in addition to the extension news feed.

News feeds come from these states
Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
California
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Minnesota
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin

If you’ve added a news feed or want to make sure I’m getting a specific feed from your institution, please post a question comment or contact me.

Lynette Spicer, Virtual News Room

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280 news releases posted during March 2009

Source of news releases–sorted in descending order

U of Illinois    27
North Dakota State    26
U of Arkansas    24
U of Minnesota    16
Iowa State    16
Ohio State    13
Alabama Cooperative Extension    13
U of Kentucky    12
Purdue    12
Oklahoma State and Langston University    12
Kansas State    11
South Dakota State    10
U of Nebraska    8
U of Georgia    8
Texas Cooperative Extension     8
Oregon State    7
Penn State    6
New Mexico State    6
Utah State     5
Montana State    5
U of Missouri    4
Mississippi State    4
Clemson    4
U of California    3
Louisiana State    3
Florida Cooperative Extension     3
Virginia Cooperative Extension     2
Michigan State    2
Washington State    1
U of Rhode Island    1
U of Nevada    1
Alaska Sea Grant    1
other sources    5
original releases    1
Total     280

Sorted by resource area (community of practice)
Horticulture    41
Personal Finance    39
Corn, soybeans    25
Disasters    21
Beef Cattle    20
Entrepreneurship    19
Parenting     19
Horses    16
Dairy Cattle    14
Family Caregiving     12
Fitness    12
Ag energy    9
Science    6
Cotton Industry    5
Animal Manure Management    4
Wildfires    4
Organic production    3
Wildlife Damage M    2
Diversity    2
Geospatial    2
Fire Ants    1
Goats    1
Drinking water    1
Land use planning    1
Financial crisis 1 (typically these are counted in another category but this one didn’t get tagged for any other CoP—just in case that helps explain the lonely number.)

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News release you may use about Feb. 20 manure management Webcast

Use this release as is. Modify it by quoting an expert from your institution. The release is at the top of news releases in the animal manure management resource area.
The headline is ‘Nitrogen Conservation in Animal Housing is Free Webcast Topic Feb. 20