NUEL Capacity Building Team
Fellow: Cayla Taylor, Iowa State University Roadmap
Fellow Report: A Connect Extension NUEL subgroup was created. Aaron Weibe, Extension Foundation, completed the review/audit of NUEL's current webpage hosted by the Extension Foundation and shared the results with the NUEL Executive Committee so that they could make decisions about how to move forward with changes to the website. Aaron and the NUEL fellow, Cayla Taylor, worked together to rework the layout of the website and connect it to the NUEL Connect Extension site so that information on the website would be pulled from the NUEL Connect Extension site. This ensures that News items, the calendar and much of the other information on the site stays fresh and up-to-date. Cayla also worked to update all of the stagnate information on the website as well. The new NUEL website and Connect Extension group were launched in mid-May, just ahead of the National Urban Extension Conference (NUEC). NUEL's plan since December 2021 when it began working on building its communications capacity was to use NUEC as the springboard to launch its new communication tools. At the beginning of NUEC (May 23) the NUEL Connect Extension group had about 150-160 members. Within a week after NUEC the group had over 500 members. (As of today, June 15, the group has 635 members.) At the NUEL steering committee meeting on May 23 Aaron (ExF Communications and Marketing) walked attendees through the new webpage and Connect Extension site. He also provided training for the group on how to post information and events on the site, and how to categorize them so that they would appear on the NUEL website. Cayla then worked with the steering committee members to develop a schedule of when steering committee members would post information on the Connect Extension site over the next year to ensure a continuous supply of new information in the blog and calendar.
Rose Hayden-Smith, Extension Foundation, converted the Urban Extension e-Fieldbook that NUEL helped create into the flipping book format in the middle of May.
NUEL Connect Extension subgroup is available here. Converted Urban Extension e-Fieldbook that will be reviewed and updated in the next quarter is available here.
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