Our team supports the College of Agriculture and Life Sciendes and Virginia Cooperative Extension faculty and staff members to improve their own communication and marketing skills.
We offer guidance on a variety of topics including:
- Media relations — working with the media, writing news releases and columns, acing interviews.
- Newsletter production.
- Building online communities — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.
- Blogs.
- Writing for the Web.
- Branding.
- Marketing.
- Ensemble content management system (CMS).
- Virginia Cooperative Extension’s calendar system.
We offer online, self-paced training modules and one-on-one support. Additional training support is available at various other university units, including CALS IT, Networked Learning Initiatives, UOPD, and employee access to Lynda.com.
Training
CALS IT facilitates information technology training for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences through customized training for projects and events, webinars, Lynda.com, and online tutorials. Topics focus on skills that support personal computing, communication, collaboration, and instruction.
Extension Learning
Professional development sessions offered by eXtension are listed at http://learn.extension.org.