rednorlandextension2.0

Social networking is a big part of what makes extension successful. I think most program teams will tell you that and I know that is the case in most of my experiences 'selling' a program. It is always helpful to "know" the right people in the community who will help promote a program to make it work. Whether they are part of a public agency, committee, private business, commissioner, health field, education, their marketing is critical. Our work hinges on the connnections we have to people. I don't see facebook or my space helping us in this realm. It is more personal/private in nature. But hey, I could be wrong.

Posted by johns854 at 2:19 PM | Permalink

Again an eye opening session for me as I spend very little time exploring the web, using only the supplied by the University tech team. I am took a look at 'remember the milk," "doodle" and "slideshare" and all looked like tools that could be of value when used properly. I then signed up for google docs and found once I opened it up that there was actually a doc. in there from a mg group I work with. How that got there I don't know, it must have been placed there by one of the mg's that use google doc and it showed up on my account when I opened one up. (would that be correct?) I found the site to be very similar to microsoft word and downloaded a file from my word documents to check that out. It looked very similar to what it looked like in word.

Posted by johns854 at 3:59 PM | Permalink

The concept of creating a community knowledge base where information is exchanged by multiple people is an interesting one. I can see both the good and bad of it (who controls and what makes it in) and found it interesting how the various wikis controlled what made the page and what didn't. It ranged from the Jefferson one being controlled by scholars on the subject matter and allowing views to go to the discussion page for comment to the wookeepedie(sp) site where they called them spoilers and you had to wait 30 days for something written to become part of the material. Hard to keep up with how information is disseminated!

Posted by johns854 at 2:10 PM | Permalink

When you start to pay attention there are a lot of sites with podcast availability and subscribing was very easy to do.

Posted by johns854 at 3:53 PM | Permalink

I went to the Flicker site and was surprised and impressed by the quality found there. I am still not sure why people load pictures onto a site like that for all the world to see unless they are hoping to use it a pr tool for their own business. I get the idea of connectedness, people like to see how the "family has changed and grown" even when they don't live close enough to see each other on a regular basis. This tool certainly allows for that. I would just make certain it was locked and private.

Posted by johns854 at 12:14 PM | Permalink

just completed the rss feeder section and found it pretty informative for someone who is not a techy person. It was a little challenging get the blogline setup because I kept trying to add urls and they wouldn't accept. Then I went to outlook and found an email that said I need to accept what I had done. Once I did that I was able to load three urls. I just need to experiment more to get a better feel for this.

Posted by johns854 at 2:51 PM | Permalink