Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Recordings and Supporting Materials

ACE/NETC ver. 2.011 has adjourned. Hopefully the conference answered some of your questions, provided new ideas and inspired you to continue on your personal professional development path.

Session recordings obtained during the conference have been posted on the conference website, on eXtension Learn and in our ACE/NETC 2011 space in Lanyrd.com.

Presenters are encouraged to post their supporting materials in whatever location they find most convenient, and then link them to their presentation descriptions in Lanyrd. If you are uncomfortable working in that space, you may also send your links to the conference email address, acenetc2011 @ gmail.com and we will post them for you.

On behalf of the ACE/NETC 2011 Program Committee, I sincerely hope you found this conference to be a worthwhile professional experience.


Rhonda Conlon
ACE/NETC 2011 Program Chair

Monday, June 13, 2011

Getting to the Rockies Game

Tonight's Rockies game starts at 6:40 p.m. You are on your own for transportation. We recommend that you take the light rail to the game.

The Dry Creek light rail station is a short walk north on West Inverness Drive just outside the hotel grounds. If you're staying off-site, you might be closer to the County Line Station (I25 at Park Meadows Mall).

For the closest access, take the F line one stop past 16th/Stout to the 18th/Stout stop. This stop doesn’t show on the northbound route information, because it’s the first stop on the southbound return.

Cash is required for your light rail fare. The cost is $8 round-trip or $5 one-way. Experienced light railers recommend you bring the correct change, unless you want obtain change in the form of gold dollar coins.

Complete light rail information is available here:
http://www.rtd-denver.com/RockiesRide.shtml

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

ACE/NETC Shuttle Service

Because we have a large number of attendees staying at the two overflow hotels listed on the conference website, we have made arrangements for shuttle service to and from these hotels on June 10-13. You'll find the details at: http://acenetc.org/en/venue/

Denver Dining & Entertainment Options

So many restaurants, so little time. . . .It's hard to say what might be more painful: deciding between session options during ACE/NETC 2.011, or choosing where to enjoy dinner in Denver. If you have a car - you can go anywhere. If not, you can take a shuttle to Park Meadows, walk to nearby eateries, or find your way to the light rail station and head downtown.

  • To simplify your choices, consider staying in the immediate area. Park Meadows - west of I-25, has. We've mapped some of them here.
  • For those of you wishing to travel further and explore, consult Denver's weekly, Westword restaurant guide (you can do a search by neighborhood).
  • You can also read restaurant reviews on Yelp.
  • For those of you headed to the ball game, Denver's LoDo district, home to Coors Field, is well known for beer, wine and taverns.
If you're looking for more to do that just eat, check out Westword's calendar of events. You can filter by day, weekend, or neighborhood.

For those of you headed downtown, you can do a little pre-trip planning by visiting the RTD light rail website for rates, schedules and station locations.

See you in Denver later this week!

No travel budget this year? Attend virtually!

We are very pleased to be able to broadcast the ACE/NETC luncheon keynote presentations and select breakout sessions throughout the conference. We hope you will join us virtually if you're unable to attend the conference in person.

You'll find the live broadcast schedule with links to the session
details here: http://www.acenetc.org/en/virtual/

These and select other sessions will also be recorded and linked here after the conference.

We want to thank Iowa State University Extension for sponsoring the live
broadcasts and Ohio State University for providing Camtasia resources to
record the additional sessions.

Rhonda Conlon
ACE/NETC 2011 Program Chair

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Twitter Basics Webinar Recording

Feeling left out? Want to get in the flow?

Social media applications like Twitter and related apps like Lanyrd can enrich your ACE/NETC experience. If you haven't started using Twitter yet, you might find yourself missing out on some great conversations. Even if you're not attending the conference, using these apps is a good way to pick up some key nuggets and connect with the presenters and attendees.

We've recorded a Twitter Basics webinar for folks just like you who for one reason or another haven't explored social media before now. The session includes creating an account and discusses posting and reading messages, applications to use, commonly used 'lingo,' and how to find and follow  the people you are interested in.

You'll find it here: http://slms.delta.ncsu.edu/recordings.html


John Dorner
eXtension Network Literacy CoP Vice Chair and
Area Information Management Agent
NC Cooperative Extension / NC State University

Rhonda Conlon
ACE/NETC Program Chair and
Extension Information Technology Director
NC State University

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Strategically Planning the Future of ACE

Those of you who were at the 2010 ACE meeting in St. Louis will recall the very productive discussion we had during the Future of ACE lunch session. All of the input that was collected during that session was used by the ACE Board during their  Fall meeting in Tucson, AZ to distill six basic issues which warranted further consideration. For each of these issues the Strategic Planning Committee then added proposed goals, strategies and suggestions for implementation. All of this work is now included in a report which we will review in Denver. There we will seek your feedback before determining implementation steps at this year's Fall Board meeting in Manhattan, KS.

Some of these steps will result in a radical shift in our operations, but we believe these changes are important to the survival of the organization. As a recent NPR story pointed out, associations like ours will have to totally reinvent themselves in order to avoid becoming obsolete.

We encourage you to read this report before coming to Denver. It is the result of the persistent efforts members over the past year by members of the Strategic Planning Committee and promises to reshape ACE in many ways. As committee member Janet Rodekohr aptly put it:
If they implement just half of our suggestions, it will be a new day for ACE. I'm very proud of the work we've accomplished here. It could be a turning point for ACE. Thank you to Jeff and Tom and Steve for your leadership and to the other committee members for some great teamwork!

You can find the report at: http://www.acenetc.org/runtime/ACE_Strategic_Plan_2011.pdf. Please read it carefully.

Robert Casler, ACE President