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2011 Cooperative Extension Classified Staff Award for Excellence

June 3, 2011

Greetings Colleagues:

The Classified Staff Advisory Council is now seeking nominations for the 2011 Cooperative Extension Classified Staff Award for Excellence.

Who: All current classified staff, limited-term employees, and project appointment employees of Cooperative Extension are eligible to be nominated for the Cooperative Extension Classified Staff Award for Excellence.

Any employee of Cooperative Extension may make a nomination for this award. No self-nominations will be accepted.

Selection process: The Classified Staff Award Selection Committee serves to review and evaluate all nominations and select a recipient for the Cooperative Extension Classified Staff Award. The Award Selection Committee for 2011 consists of Chad McClure, Lisa Nichols, and Sarah Traaholt.

The Award: The award recipient shall receive a plaque and be honored at the Cooperative Extension Classified Staff Conference, October 20, 2011, and be recognized in institutional (UW-Extension and Cooperative Extension) newsletter publications, e-mails, and announcements.

Directions for Nominations are in this link.

Deadline: July 1, 2011

Please take a moment and nominate a Classified Staff Member for this very special award. Thank you.

Liz Hilts
Cooperative Extension Classified Staff Advisory Council

A LOOK INTO OUR FUTURE

Cooperative Extension’s Intranet: History by Greg Johll, Director, CE Technology Services

A while ago, Tech Services conducted a planning event to determine how we go about using the web. The results of that work shows us that we need to divide our Internet presence into a couple of areas – a public content and issued focused presence and an internal “administrative work” type presence. To accomplish this, one step that is to create an Intranet - A private network that uses Web technologies for the sharing of information internally.

To accomplish this task we have selected a product called Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint can be thought of as having 3 primary functions

1. MySites
2. Team Spaces
3. Portal functionality. Each will serve an important role in organizing and improving internal communications and storage of information.

MySites – Each person will have their own personal place within the Intranet. Parts of your personal site will be viewable by others who can Login to the Intranet (eg. Name, county, program area, email), and other content can be kept private. So, for example, you could store a paper or curriculum you are working on for your personal programming on your MySite.

Because it is on the web, you can access it from anywhere you have Internet access – but no one else can. Then, maybe a colleague or a group of people are interested in what you’ve developed. YOU decide who can access the document and grant only that person (or group) access. When a person who has been granted access to the document visits your site, they will see the document and other won’t.

A nice feature of the MySite is that it will keep track of all the Team Sites you are officially a member of so you can quickly get to them AND it also knows which documents your team is working on and makes them accessible through the MySite. There’s a lot more…

Full history by Greg

Cooperative Extension's Intranet Future powerpoint demo

Greg's 3/18/10 announcement

CSAC News

Your Classified Staff Advisory Committee (CSAC) met on January 20, 2010. Several topics were discussed including the election of 2010 CSAC officers, model change options for CSAC, and the Cooperative Extension Classified Staff Award for Excellence. You can find the minutes from that meeting at www.uwex.edu/ces/classified/committee.cfm.

New Cooperative Extension logo

We now have a "Cooperative Extension" version of the UW-Extension logo, which you can find at http://www.uwex.edu/ces/about/logos.cfm.

Please consider using this logo for: PowerPoints, Clothing, Annual reports, Newsletters, Name tags for meetings, Displays, Letterhead, County websites, Office signage, Handouts, Flyers, Business cards, Flags, Banners, Poster boards, Publications, Mugs, Pens, Caps, etc.