so the good folk at APEN, held a great workshop giving extension staff everywhere a little taste of e-extension. lead by our fearless leader mr john james we conquered web conferencing, podcasting, wiki’s, e-surveys, email discussion lists, and so much more. the stand out for me on the day was the landholder initiated drought stories e-books that are part of the pioneering Leading Sheep program.

any way you want to know who won the competition, right?

oh yes that’s right we had a competition. i was lucky enough to be one of the webinar presenters on the day. i talked about some of the web 2.0 and e-extension projects i had been involved in. in an effort to encourage people to dive in to the whole sphere of web 2.0, i held a competition, a 9 day challenge. the participants had to do three things to go into the draw to win a 12 month premium subscription to a PBWiki.

the three task were as follows;

listen to a podcast
watch a vodcast or online video
and leave a comment on a blog

being the busy people extensionists are there were not an overwhelming number of entrants. however there were enough to warrant tearing up pieces of paper and the dropping them in a hat.

i am very pleased to say.

and the winner is …….

Melina Miles

congratulations melina i will contact you shortly with details for collecting your prize.

thanks to all who participated, commiserations to the other participants. perhaps consider subscribing to this site i am in final stages of preparing some material to introduce a range of web 2.0 concepts. so if you would like to know more about starting a blog, recording a podcast, or creating some online video for you agricultural or natural resource management program stay tune to eco2oh.com