We are
integrating communications training information from "Communicate!"
newsletter into our revised website scheduled for debut in fall 2004. Until then, please use the
communication tips and techniques from
previous issues of the newsletter by reviewing the Archives (below).
The articles cover topics such as writing, public speaking, photography, videography,
desktop and electronic publishing, radio, satellite teleconferencing, streaming
video, marketing, multimedia, Web writing, and Web design. If you have questions
or suggestions about communications training, please e-mail Bob
Rost.
We will continue to update the "Status Report," a listing of publications
and videos available in the Corvallis warehouse and/or on the OSU Extension website
(extension.oregonstate.edu).
If you have questions or suggestions about the listing, please e-mail Evie
Engel.
To view PDF copies of "Communicate!" newsletter, download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. For best results, use Acrobat Reader 3 or higher. Between March and September 2003, the newsletter is available only in HTML.
Communicate!
Clear the fog from Web writing
Consider Producer for online educational presentations
Site by site: We’re making progress!
Never underestimate the power of the flash
Extension success stories on the Web
Status Report
Jobs completed August 1 to August 31, 2003
Communicate!
Estimating publishing costs in grant proposals
Contribute to your Web site
Planning ahead for digital photo uses
Staff changes in the Extension warehouse
Status Report
Jobs completed July 1 to July 31, 2003
Communicate!
Download times for Web pages
New features for Publications & Videos catalog
Interactive media (Part 2): Is DVD for me?
What about a multimedia lab?
Status Report
Jobs completed June 1 to June 30, 2003
Communicate!
Templates, hats, and software, oh my!
From educational videos to Web
If "E" means online, why is there a sales price?
Resources in Spanish
New publishing steps help us help you
Status Report
Jobs completed May 1 to May 31, 2003
Communicate!
Saying goodbye to two of our own
Exploring Extension's new Home page
New protocols for Extension publishing
Don't forget communications in grant proposals
Interactive media (Part 1):Is DVD for me?
Copyrights and wrongs: Answers to frequently asked questions
Status Report
Jobs completed April 1 to April 30, 2003
Communicate!
Writer leaves Extension for the newspaper world
Your desktop or mine? Free software can bring distant learner
and teacher together
Lean, clean writing isn't easy, but these techniques will
help
Online streaming videos provide additional resource
The promise and peril of using "justified" text
type in a publication
Status Report
Jobs completed March 1 to March 31, 2003
Communicate!
Streaming video how-to now available online
New multimedia tools at work on Extension's Web site
Extension's diversity leader authors book on communicating
between cultures
"Communicate!" moves to all-electronic delivery
Status Report
Jobs completed January 2 to February 28, 2003
Communicate!
Get your Extension Service Legislative Packet
Fewer no-charge publications
Prepare for Web service changes
Do this, don't do that...for a great newsletter
Linn County gala tells Extension's stories
Status Report
Jobs completed October 24 to December 31, 2002
Communicate!
Fix frightful copy fast
Make your brochure eye-catching
Be prepared for reporters calling
Follow this example to hit your target
Become a tighter writer
The Backgrounder
Marketing Extension to multiple cultures
Status Report
Jobs completed September 9 to October 24, 2002
Communicate
Kingsley moves on to greener fairways
Remember customer service
Design the Edward Tufte way
Watch your language!
Private funding for Extension--A matter of principle
Status Report
Jobs completed June 21 to September 9, 2002
Communicate!
Ignore rumors, improve marketing
Make your materials accessible to all
Keep Extension information current
Choose the right software for your digital darkroom
Be your own writing critic
The Backgrounder
Posters: Sharing with peers, teaching clients, and marketing
Extension
Status Report
Jobs completed April 25 to June 21, 2002
Communicate!
Make Extension programs available and accessible
Add value to your photos
Read the new on-line gardening monthly
Don't let your body say the wrong thing
Send us your success stories
Use NetMeeting for training
Let us know when your article is published
Status Report
Jobs completed February 23 to April 24, 2002
Communicate!
Tell your story for effective business communiction
Market the 'Sustainability' tabloid
Who's on first at EESC
Call us for communication skills training
Extension Stockroom moving across campus
Use OAP as a marketing tool'
Status Report
Jobs completed December 20, 2001 to February 22, 2002
Communicate!
Working with contract employees
Bienvenidos a 4-H
Check the zoom features before you buy
If it's too hard to read, it's wasted
Publishing your Publisher files
Streaming video gets 'thumbs up'
Status Report
Jobs completed October 27 to December 21, 2001
Communicate!
Watch out for 'credibility busters'
Web sites illuminate digital photography
New videos reexamine the American Dream, promote waste prevention
Web-use survey reveals surprises
What is sustainability?
Status Report
Jobs completed August 22 to October 26, 2001
Communicate!
Changes are afoot in EESC
Avoid dangerous e-mail
Print great digital photos
Animating our own...
No reinvente la rueda! (Don't reinvent the wheel!)
Status Report
Jobs completed to June 26 to August 22, 2001
Communicate!
Choose the right resolution
Carry a photography 'grab bag'
Provide good customer service
Usability study helps us improve our Web site
Get drought and water conservation resources on-line
Agricultural communicating in Russia
Status Report
Jobs completed April 24 to June 26, 2001
Communicate!
Take better pictures of plants
Write better headlines
Watch 'Northwest Gardening' on OPB
Link to OSU Extension and Station Publications
Try these tips for error-free prose
Status Report
Jobs completed February 21 to April 24, 2001
Communicate!
Thinking interactively
Leave the scanning to us
What you need to know about XML
Call us for communication skills training
Creating oversized posters or displays
Keep up with current titles and prices
Status Report
Jobs completed December 28, 2000 to February
21, 2001
Communicate!
Making the transition to 'new media'
Write 'clickable' copy
Get your county office Web site!
Include an Affirmative Action statement
Strategies for reaching Web audiences
At your service
Camera-ready Affirmative Action statements
Status Report
Jobs completed October 24 to December 28, 2000
Communicate!
Test shows we're not quite ready for live Webcasting
What is 'Art About Agriculture' all about?
Reaching Hispanic audiences: It's all about
relationships
Getting there from here
Preparing effective poster presentations
Backgrounder
Make text more readable for older people
Status Report
Jobs completed August 30 to October 24, 2000
Communicate!
Participate in a communications workshop at
Extension Annual Conference
What is that report we keep mailing you?
Test drive your Web site
Get the latest word on Progress
Web notes
Status Report
Jobs completed June 30 to August 30, 2000
Communicate!
Don't spam, don't flame, and don't SHOUT
What's new?
Get mega-quality with new 3-megapixel cameras
Use a standardized news release header
Web notes
Status Report
Jobs completed April 21 to June 30, 2000
Communicate!
Choose the right graphic file format
Catch up on the news
Create an appropriate newsletter nameplate
Make the workplace a better place
Web notes
Status Report
Jobs completed February 24 to April 21, 2000
Communicate!
When to use which statement
Need help with writing and publishing?
Learn how to operate satellite equipment
Get all the dirt on gardening
Write interesting columns
Web notes
Communicate!
How do Extension clients use the Web?
Make your e-mails easier to read
Keep up with current titles and prices
Access publications in HTML and PDF
Top 10 things I've learned as a Webmaster
Web notes
Communicate!
Meet the new OSU wordmark and its companions
Master gardening--with this new handbook
Test your design IQ
Deliver your program via satellite
Editors reveal the writing they hate
Web notes
Who are these guys, anyway? (Scott Gilpin and
Todd Kesterson)
Communicate!
Give your writing harmony and pace
More about dashes
Choose the right image manipulation software
New videos from EESC
OSU Extension Web notes
Make your Web site more user-friendly
Backgrounder
Mailing list manners 101
Communicate!
Use parallel structure in your writing
New video helps urban residents reduce polluted
runoff
Use the right dashes and hyphens
Slang--don't go there, hottie
Web notes
Communicate!
Weed out 'noxious words'
Untangle the Web
Prepare yourself for emergencies
Search the new, improved online video catalog
Welcome your new satellite technician
Web notes
Communicate!
ADA also covers volunteers and 4-H camp attendees
Oregon's Agricultural Progress available
on audiotape
Make your newsletter more successful
Extension Web news
Produce a quality small poster
'Northwest Gardening' coming to OPB
Communicate!
Get your story printed
Bradbury: 'Never watch local TV news again'
Visit the Extension video catalog online
It's invisible to you but essential to us
New video released: Who's Coming to Dinner?
OSU Printing and Mailing Services offers new
Web site
The Backgrounder
Creating useful publications: Getting from idea
to print
Communicate!
Ask before using copyrighted material
Writing for a Web audience
Did I do a good job? Evaluation techniques can
help you find out
Communicate!
EESC Web site gets a facelift
Cure the shakes
Upgrade to digital, but keep the analog
Get the right review at the right time
Tabloid promotes discussion of salmon issues
Communicate!
Strive for conciseness in your writing
Using Affirmative Action and ADA statements
Printing and mailing via the Internet
Solving the quotation mark dilemma--"inside
or out?"
Build your publication on organization and words
The Backgrounder
Focusing on digital cameras
Communicate!
Search the Educational Materials catalog
online
Soothe the savage beasts
Keep it in frame, part 2
Focus early on your publication's message
Writers write about writing
Communicate!
What is PDF, and why do we use it?
Try paid advertising to promote your programs
Make your video teleconference work
Video presentation tip: Keep it in frame
Think early about marketing your publication
The Backgrounder
Write a killer op-ed piece
Communicate!
Consider displaying Oregon's Agricultural
Progress
Limit hyperbole to extra-special, once-in-a-lifetime
occasions
Think outside the box
Establish ground rules for meetings
Go statewide with your publications!
Decide how your publication will be used
Communicate!
Get national Extension info with E-answers
Evaluate to enhance readership
Remember the 'old standbys' when considering
distance education
Goodbye printed Videotape Loan Catalog
Look and feel comfortable on camera
Know your audience and what they need
Think outside the box
Communicate!
Getting from idea to print
Create your own Web pages with PageMill
Think outside the box
Be careful when resizing graphics
Help reduce information overload
Communicate!
Improve your writing with 'Instant Writing Course'
Look for the latest online
Choose the right digital camera
Watch for the new Educational Materials catalog
Think outside the box
Use teamwork to improve your Web site
Communicate!
Enhance your educational program with video
Farewell, Janine!
Market Extension actively and passively
New program helps parents teach their children
how to be Home Alone and Prepared
Just say no to outlines
Download an Extension logo
Communicate!
Keep phone customers happy with simple courtesy
Place a free call, get a free catalog
Write relevant impact statements
Be proud of your cluttered desk
View the Extension Videotape Loan Catalog
online
Beware of low-priced digital cameras
Remove a tiny word to avoid big trouble
Now you can download print-on-demand publications
Communicate!
Search for OSU Extension publications online!
Browse our Web gardening pages
Welcome, Amber!
Master the tools of communication with The
Communicator's Handbook
Stand tall with short words
Use electronic services responsibly
Communicate!
Make your opinion worth reading
Have you noticed the copyright notice?
New video demonstrates sheep scoring
New video shows how to care for sportcaught
fish
Get credit where it's due!
Make your writing clearer, more vivid
Electronic catalog will improve access to new
videos
Communicate!
Use award stories to help tell the Extension
story
Avoid these 'nine worst' media mistakes
Fold before you address
Get ready for high-speed fiber optics
Results: Electronic publishing pilot project
The Backgrounder
Create your own county Web page
Find video resources on the Web
Communicate!
Quality counts on the Web, too
Check out our Web pages
Participate in PROFNET to reach more people
Bridge the audio gap with your 'black box'
Use specialty ag pubs to help publicize your
event
End-of-year shutdown
The Backgrounder
Produce a successful video project
Consider these camcorder features for better
results
Communicate!
Sharing Extension information with the sight-impaired
Welcome, Susannah!
Make photos last longer with careful storage
Grab readers with good headlines
Check your writing carefully
Towns in Transition offers hope
The Backgrounder
Checklist for preparing newsletters
Communicate!
New name, same mission
Welcome, Marge!
Keep your hands off the camera!
Know when to say what
Grant funding doesn't mean free publications
Woodland Workbook will be back soon
Write a column, reach thousands
The Backgrounder
Copyright and multimedia
Communicate!
Coming soon to your office: bar-coding your
own mail
Welcome, Sue!
Getting Extension pubs on-line
Producing a small poster
This Web's for you
A brief guide for authors of Agricultural Experiment
Station Publications
The Backgrounder
Multimedia: Separating the hype from the reality
Filmless cameras: here, there, but not everywhere
So you wanna buy a camcorder...
Communicate!
Save time, money, and stress with 'electronic
classroom'
Use adverbs proper!
Prevent sun glare from ruining your pictures
New water quality resource available
View Ag Comm news releases on the Web
Electronic publishing pilot project in action
Make your point!
The Backgrounder
How to write clear how-to instructions
Communicate!
Getting your manuscript approved
Goodbye, Peggy!
Distilling science for a lay audience
'Guiding light'
Make radio work for you
Camera basics: shutter speed and aperture
The Backgrounder
Tips for planning and designing exhibits
Communicaids (the old name)
Emerging technology provides agricultural research
'tours'
Welcome, Nancy!
Watch verb tenses when writing scientific reports
Use updated affirmative action statements
Avoid common satellite tuning mistakes
Impacts: Telling the Extension story (part 1)
Public accountability at the federal level
Communicaids
Bulleted lists: To punctuate or not to punctuate?
Best wishes, Tammy!
Camcorder 'commandments' for professional-looking
videos
Add dynamism to your photos with 'rule of thirds'
Reduce your postage costs
Some help on using statistics in releases and
publications
Make your newsletter fun to write and fun to
read
How county Extension offices file publications
Communicaids
Providing accurate author names in publications
Welcome to our new editor!
New tabletop exhibits ready to check out
Getting good color requires right light
More than you wanted to know about Agricultural
Communications
Take the guesswork out of e-mail messages
Get the sat facts fast
Communicaids
Getting into the news
Goodbye, Evelyn!
Piggybacking pubs and videos
PROFNET links universities with news media
Trim your fax bill
Watch out for names
Nurture those cooperators for best results
Northwest Gardens returns
The Backgrounder
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