This is a group of Extension professionals and master volunteers who serve as "experts" in eXtension's "Ask Extension" system. This group will be used as a means of posting news about Ask Extension, as well as a way for the experts to share information with each other. It is a forum meant to supplement the information available at https://askhelp.extension.org.
The recording of the December 2, 2020 webinar on Ask Extension is now available at https://use.vg/8GPSiT . Further, a pdf of the slides used in this webinar is attached to this blog post.
Earlier this year, eXtension announced the transition of Ask an Expert ( ask.extension.org ) to a new platform we are calling Ask Extension ( ask2.extension.org ). The migration of questions and accounts began in September and this process will be complete February 1, 2021. What will happen February 1? All question submissions will switch to Ask Extension. The web form that allows people to submit questions to Ask an Expert will be shut down. To continue to receive and answer questions, you...
Those who viewed our How-To videos a few weeks ago may have missed some changes posted next to their respective videos. Related to managing your profile, there is a new auto-assign setting not reflected in the screencast. When questions are submitted to your group, they are auto-assigned on a round-robin basis to available experts within the group. Some groups prefer that all questions go to an internal "question wrangler" who will then reassign them to other appropriate experts within the...
A new feature was just released which allows groups to lock their widget location to the group's state. When this feature is enabled the client can't change the location, just the county. This option is called the "Lock State Dropdown" and you can find it on your Update Group page.
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