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January 6, 2010
SPECIAL TOPIC: Social Media and Agriculture
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 3:30 - 5:00 Eastern http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/Learn
The purpose of this conference is to provide examples of how social media is being used in agriculture. Ag Extension agents, specialists and others who attend will become familiar and begin to understand how social media is being used in agriculture and begin to use the tools themselves.
Presenters are:
Arlan Suderman, Market Analyst, www.twitter.com/arlanff101, will discuss the use of Twitter and mobile applications in sharing information that affects commodity markets.
Will Gilmer, Alabama dairy farmer, www.twitter.com/gilmerdairy, will discuss his use of blogging, Twitter, and video to educate others and serve as an ag advocate, by using contests, videos, blogging and Twitter.
Carrie Oliver, Oliver Ranch Company, www.twitter.com/carrieoliver & www.twitter.com/meatcamp, will discuss her use of Twitter and blogging in support of her business and in educating other about the speciality meat industry, Artisan Meat. She will also discuss an open Twitter forum called #meatcamp that focuses on issues pertaining to producing and consumer use of meat. This forum is a collaborative effort among Carrie, www.twitter.com/KYFarmersMatter (cattle producer and livestock processor), and Penn State meat scientist, Chris Raines, www.twitter.com/iTweetMeat.
Dan Toland, Ohio Farm Bureau www.twitter.com/OhioFarmBureau and www.twitter.com/d_toland, will discuss how Farm Bureau's success in using social media as way to educate and communicate about issues of agriculture. He will also discuss briefly Ohio Farm Bureau's social media policies.
Andy Kleinschmidt, Ohio State Ag Extension educator, www.twitter.com/akleinschmidt, will describe his success in blogging and Twitter as an Extension educator.
November 12, 2009
An hour long webinar recording from Classroom 2.0 Live. The speaker, Steve Hargadon is the creater of Classroom 2.0 a great place for education and technology webinars.
October 23, 2009
Watch and/or listen to a 1hr and 21 minute webinar on copyright at Classroom. 2.0
October 14, 2009
eXtension is offering a variety of 30-minute sessions during the month of October. Topics range from using Google and embedding the eXtension widget, to Moodle and Second Life. For a listing, see the eXtension October Professional Development Listings.
October 8, 2009
What is Online Engagement? - Anne Adrian, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Wednesday, October 7, 2009
While I talk to various groups about the value of social media, I try to help them think about using social media for their own learning, for collaboration, and for engagement.Almost always in these discussions, participants think of using these tools to broadcast information. "We can use Twitter to publicize a new blog post." These suggestions are great, and absolutely can be used.
But then, I try to move the conversation to how social media brings many other benefits that we have not been able to capture in typical web pages. One power of social media tools is the ability to engage others.
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Here's an excerpt from the PEW Internet study on the social life of health information (June 2009):
Overview
Americans' pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online and offline sources. Whereas someone may have in the past called a health professional, their Mom, or a good friend, they now are also reading blogs, listening to podcasts, updating their social network profile, and posting comments. And many people, once they find health information online, talk with someone about it offline.
This Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation survey finds that technology is not an end, but a means to accelerate the pace of discovery, widen social networks, and sharpen the questions someone might ask when they do get to talk to a health professional. Technology can help to enable the human connection in health care and the internet is turning up the information network's volume.
About the Survey
The findings in this report come from a national phone survey done by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project in partnership with the California HealthCare Foundation. Some 2,253 adults, age 18 and older, were interviewed in December 2008 about the social impact of the internet on health care. The interviews were conducted in English or Spanish and included 502 cell-phone interviews.
Read the full report online or download the PDF.