SRPLN 2008 Comm Accomplishment Report
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SRPLN Communications Committee 2008 Accomplishment Report
Committees are asked to answer these three questions by September 15, 2008. Be brief. The goal is to limit the report to one page.
1. What has your committee accomplished together in the last year as a result of PLN?
Our committee had five conference calls as scheduled for 2007-08, and through those calls planned topics for the 2008 annual meeting. Topics covered were cost centers, e-commerce, CECP and communication units' involvement in eXtension.
We continued working on a document about costs, royalties and permissions, realizing it should not be considered standards but rather "Best Practices for Production and Dissemination of Extension Publications and Other Communication Products in The Southern Region"
The committee also completed and posted meeting minutes, promoted the eXtension rollout in February and used a wiki to do some state reports.
2. What has your committee accomplished together that it could not have accomplished without PLN?
Networking is the primary benefit and accomplishment of PLN: professional relationships that develop both within and beyond the organizational structure of PLN. At meetings, we are able to discuss and gain new ideas about cost centers, e-commerce, marketing products and practices, educational products and practices, professional development, and other topics.
3. Please give a few examples of specific benefits to individual states.
Extension in Alabama wanted to see how its practices regarding charging for publications, giving permission to reprint, and other issues involving production and dissemination of communication products compared with other states' practices and if there might be enough commonality to establish policies the entire region could agree on. This was not the case because states vary in these practices. The benefit is knowing the facts.
North Carolina has used a baby calendar produced in Alabama to reach Latino audiences. We would not have known this publication existed were it not for SRPLN. We have also sought and received information about printing operations; that information may influence the future of our print shop.
