[CED/CD/EAT] FW: [EXT][wedadirectors] Fwd: Extension Directors & Administrators: eXtension Update

[Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto)]

FYI…

Jeffrey C. Silvertooth, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
Director of Extension and Economic Development
Division of Agriculture, Life, & Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension
Forbes 301
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona          85721-0036
520-621-7205

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Dear Extension Directors & Administrators,

The eXtension Foundation has mobilized to support the entire Cooperative Extension System with professional development, technology, and tools to assist during this challenging situation:


Extension Response to COVID-10 & Resources for Extension Professionals Working Online

Found at virtual.eXtension.org<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/846769092295/silver/cals.arizona.edu/>. The purpose of this website is to provide a means through which Extension educators and administrators can share with their Cooperative Extension colleagues various resources and guides about teaching and working virtually, and provide a listing of current institutional responses to COVID-19. To add resources, please send them to contact-us at eXtension.org<mailto:contact-us at extension.org?subject=Resources%20for%20virtual.extension.org>

Connect Extension: A Hub For Learning, Professional Development, and Collaboration

Available to the entire Cooperative Extension System. The eXtension Foundation has obtained a commercially available technology solution, Connect Extension. Its features - forums, blogs, a way to share media clips, surveys, calendars, chat features and more - are specifically designed to elicit engagement, foster learning and support community building. It is an interactive and “living” virtual space, as opposed to being simply an online resource page.

On behalf of the eXtension Foundation, we invite the entire system to use Connect Extension to create collaboration groups. Groups need to be focused, multi-institutional collaborations. For example, one region is exploring the use of Connect Extension to connect all program leaders. With group leaders and members, we will assess the use of groups in August 2020 and determine the path forward.

eXtension members have access through Connect Extension to exclusive learning and professional development opportunities via our Impact Collaborative program.

To take the next step and create a group or for a quick video demo, contact Aaron Weibe at aaronweibe at eXtension.org<mailto:aaronweibe at eXtension.org>.


Upcoming Opportunities for All Cooperative Extension Professionals

National Action Dialogue
March 26th & April 1st, 2020
3 PM - 4 PM ET
Available to: All Cooperative Extension Professionals


eXtension has been mobilized to support Cooperative Extension System (CES) during this tough time of social distancing and in response we have started a webinar series to address working virtually and connecting with your audiences through digital technology. You will also find more information at virtual.extension.org<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/094620177436/silver/cals.arizona.edu/> and in the Connect Extension Group: Extension Response & Resources for Extension Professionals Working Online<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/298955349681/silver/cals.arizona.edu/> you might consider joining.

WHAT NEXT?

To take this all one step further, we will be hosting a National Action Dialogue around Community Based Programming (CBP) in the Digital Networked COVID-19 Age as a two-session online event starting next week available for all CES professionals across the country regardless of eXtension Foundation, Inc. membership. Registration is Open<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/009793840838/silver/cals.arizona.edu/>

Online Event: Community Based Programming (CBP) in the Digital Networked COVID-19 Age

  *   Part 1: Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 3-4:30 PM ET
  *   Part 2: Date/Time: Wednesday, April 1, 3-4:30 PM ET

Purpose/Outcome: The purpose of this National Action Dialogue is to position our universities to rapidly respond to CBP in the Digital networked COVID-19 issue by delving in, capturing collective wisdom, inspiring innovative thinking, and focusing on new opportunities, partnerships, solutions, tangible actions and collaborations on issues for farms, families, businesses, and communities that will exist long beyond this public health crisis. This is open to all Cooperative Extension professionals.

  *   The first day in Part 1, this event will offer a speaker(s)/panel to seed the conversations around the topic and time will be allowed for small breakout groups to discuss the issues and groups will report back the main outcomes of their conversations to the entire attendance.
  *   The second day in Part 2, the top issues will be explored more deeply by breakout groups to share strategies for addressing these issues and potential needs to address the issues.

Register Here<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/009793840838/silver/cals.arizona.edu/>


eXtension Social Café
Every Thursday from March 26th - April 30th, 2020
1 PM - 2 PM ET
Available to All Cooperative Extension Professionals


The eXtension Social Café will provide a weekly opportunity for informal, drop-in conversations and questions about the effective use of social media and communications in Extension work. Each Social Café will open with a 5-15 minute “tutorial” of a tool or feature on commonly used social platforms, or a brief showcase of a Cooperative Extension employee who is using digital communications in innovative and effective ways. The remainder of the time will be devoted to sharing, discussion and Q&A.

Hosted by Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD, Technology in Extension Education Fellow

Dr. Hayden-Smith has most recently served as a Cooperative Extension advisor in Digital Communications in Food Systems & Extension for the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources. She’s the editor of the UC Food Observer, a communications platform in support of UC’s Global Food Initiative.[https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1175945809830891521/lMogLUvY_400x400.jpg]

She previously led the 4-H and Master Gardener programs in Ventura County, where she also served as the first female director of Extension. Hayden-Smith was also the leader for UC ANR’s statewide initiative in sustainable food systems. She is a practicing historian and has published extensively about gardens as a civic enterprise in America.  She was a Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow, advocating for a new Victory Garden movement.

Her book, “Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War 1”, published by McFarland, was released in spring 2014.

Zoom Room Info Available On Connect Extension<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/905714955203/silver/cals.arizona.edu/>


Upcoming Opportunities for eXtension Member Institutions

Virtual Culture: The Way We Work Doesn’t Work Anymore, How to Embrace the Virtual Culture In Your Team

March 24th, 3 – 4 PM ET
Available to eXtension Members<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/390458137791/silver/cals.arizona.edu/> Only

Christine Geith, CEO, eXtension Foundation, and Beverly Coberly, COO, eXtension Foundation, will be interviewing Lisa Zeeveld of BELAY Solutions about virtual culture. eXtension has been working with BELAY Solutions since 2016 to provide virtual assistants for the organization.

According to Christine Geith, “BELAY Solutions’ CEO, Bryan Miles, wrote the best book on virtual organizations that I’ve ever read.” The eXtension Foundation will be giving away free books to the first 20 registrants that participate in this webinar.

Description

‘How do you know someone is actually working when everything is virtual?’ It’s a question that, as a 100-percent remote company since 2010, we get asked a lot.

Additionally, brick-and-mortar organizations struggle to understand what virtual offices look like, how to overcome the inherent challenges of a virtual workforce, the benefits of going remote, and how to establish and foster a rich remote culture to maintain engagement.

Thankfully, BELAY COO Lisa Zeeveld knows a thing – or million – about organizational perspectives regarding an online workforce and will share her insights with us!

About BELAY Solutions

At BELAY, we’re a 100-percent virtual company with 10 years of experience providing virtual specialists to help your organization grow. Whether our clients need a Virtual Assistant, Bookkeeper, or Web Specialist, we have the right team member ready to help any organization excel without the added stress of having to do everything on their own. We search the entire country to find the right contractor to meet every client’s needs so that they can get back to what only they can do: growing their organization.

About Lisa Zeeveld

“I’m the COO and original culture cultivator at BELAY, the leading virtual staffing solutions company. I ensure that the optimum people and processes are in place to allow BELAY to realize maximum profitability since the success of an organization begins and ends with its people.

I thrive in creating dynamic and healthy cultures by developing recruiting strategies for hiring ideal team players, launching programs to increase team member engagement, creating initiatives that cultivate over 95-percent retention, and leveraging technology for innovative solutions.

With my Series-6 Limited Securities and Health and Life Insurance licenses, and prior experience in corporate finance and personal wealth management for several Fortune 500 companies, including Arthur Andersen and Weber Shandwick, I’m uniquely equipped to drive strategic initiative success by focusing on the company goals holistically.

I am fanatical about people and numbers, the utilization of agile methodologies, bottom-line profitability, and creating opportunities for professional and personal growth. I’m also a lifelong learner as an avid reader, history buff, and architecture geek.”

eXtension Members Register Here<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/109792114726/silver/cals.arizona.edu/>


Impact Collaborative Virtual Summit: Delivering Programs Virtually

April 28th & 29th, 2020
2 PM - 4 PM ET
Available to eXtension Members Only


A couple of weeks ago, we announced that registration had opened for our virtual Impact Collaborative Summit. Our April 28th - 29th Virtual Impact Collaborative Summit will continue as scheduled for eXtension members<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/390458137791/silver/cals.arizona.edu/>, but we have shifted the focus of the event to helping our members co-create solutions to deliver Extension programs virtually. This opportunity will also help increase participants’ confidence in creative delivery of programs.

As you all know, COVID-19 has created challenges across Cooperative Extension and across the nation. As a result of a survey conducted across the system last week, eXtension is currently focused on serving Cooperative Extension in two primary areas in response to COVID-19:

1. Providing resources, professional development, and learning opportunities around working virtually.

Using our technology platforms and tools, we’ve launched a resource site at virtual.eXtension.org<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/846769092295/silver/cals.arizona.edu/> available to the entire Land-Grant University system with new content being added everyday from all across Cooperative Extension.

Additionally, we have launched a new platform, Connect Extension<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/905714955203/silver/cals.arizona.edu/>, available to the entire system. Within the platform, eXtension members have exclusive access to professional development, learning opportunities, and opportunities for collaboration.

2. Co-creating solutions for delivering Extension programs virtually

Our network of Key Informants from in and out of Cooperative Extension will be ready to help accelerate finding solutions to the challenges of delivering Extension programs virtually.

For this Summit, there is no requirement to participate as part of a team and we have streamlined our registration process. We invite individuals from our member institutions to be part of this event.

eXtension Members Register Here<http://lists.cahnrs.wsu.edu/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/wedadirectors/978182095362/silver/cals.arizona.edu/>


About the eXtension Foundation

The eXtension Foundation is a membership-based non-profit designed to be the engine fueling U.S. Cooperative Extension’s advancement in making a more visible and measurable impact in support of education outreach from land-grant universities/colleges located in every state and territory. eXtension provides an array of opportunities for Extension professionals that foster innovation creation, the adoption of innovations at member institutions, and increased impact of Extension programs. This work is supported by your membership dollars and funding from USDA-NIFA, grant no. 2019-41595-30123. For more information on eXtension membership, please visit eXtension.org.
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