Technology Services

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Over the past few months there has been a dramatic increase in the number of publicized and highly visible cyber attacks on various company and government websites. The news outlets have reported of attacks against Credit card companies, major electronics manufacturers, federal government entities, and a slew of other public and private websites. Cyber criminals [...]

Did you know that Cooperative Extension has three installations of WordPress? Which one do you or should you use?  That depends… FYI – http://fyi.uwex.edu is a publicly accessible installation of WordPress whose purpose is to provide web space for educational programming content.  This is not for our business/administrative content (for example, you won’t find the [...]

Many attempts to either capture private information such as username/password or to infect your computer with malware/viruses etc. are done by trying to get you to visit a web site that has special code on it that will infect your computer. Most of us have been vigilant and recognize these attempts when the URL we [...]

As the use of social media within Cooperative Extension continues to grow the issue of policies related to its use has started to emerge.  This post is to specifically address UW-Cooperative Extension’s position on the use of social media in the county Extension office. UW-Cooperative Extension does not have a specific policy as it relates [...]

There are many self-help resources for learning how to use SharePoint 2010 in the Cooperative Extension Intranet: Getting started with SharePoint 2010 including login information (requires a CES username/password) Archives of introductory training/demos: Introduction to the CES Intranet Using SharePoint 2010 (1 hr) Introduction to the CES Intranet Workspaces (1hr) Introduction to the CES Intranet [...]

There are many free professional development opportunities for colleagues who are looking to learn about educational technologies, online teaching/pedagogy, social media in education and more.  For example, eXtension regularly offers short webinars about technology tools (some of which we use here in Wisconsin, some not.)  Recently, eXtension hosted a virtual conference online and have made [...]

For UW-Extension, Cooperative Extension colleagues, there is a new tool for online meetings called Blackboard Collaborate.  It’s been built like it’s the conference room down the hall, but is available for colleagues to meet virtually and share visuals (like PowerPoint slides, documents, desktop, etc.)  It is very much like other tools you may have used [...]

Outlook 2010 Quick Steps are a great way to automate multi-step email tasks.  For example, you can use the Reply & Delete Quick Step to automatically delete a message after you reply to it.  Outlook 2010 comes with a few default Quick Steps that you can customize to suit your needs. My personal favorite is [...]

As times have changed, the tools we use to communicate with our friends and loved ones have continued to evolve. Where in the past, we’d reach for the telephone in order to make a quick call to check up on someone during an emergency, we now have other more advanced and in many cases more [...]