Farm Safety and Social

Networking Just another Farmers’ Market

conversation

Reaching our clients in new ways

With

Alexandra Jump

Farm Safety Educator

UVM Extension VT AgrAbility Project

And

Emily Morehouse

Program Specialist

National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Any reference to commercial products, trade names, or brand names is for

information only, and no endorsement or approval is intended.

A social network is a social structure made of

individuals having something in common.

Social Networking using the internet

allows us to reach individuals with

information.

There are many platforms to

choose from……

Twitter Blogger My space Facebook Wordpress

The Social Networking Platforms

we useFacebook Wordpress

Additional Platforms

Video Sharing through and linked services

●Founded in February 2004 and by December it had 1,000,000.[2]

●It began as an internet student directory, much like a year book.

●Initially for Harvard students, it expanded to other colleges.

●Next it expanded to include high school students.

●Finally opening to everyone.

● Founder Mark Zuckerburg just turned 27 on May 14th.

Why do it at all?

Facebook passed the

400 million user mark on

Feb 5, 2010 [3]

As of September 28th, 2010

We have over 590 friends

A 41% increase from June

Who are our Friends?

• Farmers

• Vermont legislators and policy makers

• Media

• Other network groups

How do we know it works?

●People are asking to be friends.

●We are having conversations.

●We are reaching our targeted population

We link

Facebook Wordpress

Wordpress is a blog platform

• Write stories

• Post photos

• Add links

• Layer pages

of information

Total views on

9.28.2010

15,061

62.5% increase

How Do we know it works?

We can check the stats on the blog site

Now share the message• Using share platforms like You Tube and

Share This helps get the word out.

Can you

It?

Why yes we can!

What AgrAbility

means to me

Bambi Freeman

Tom Younkman, VCIL

Michael Cotroneo

stand by a finished project.

Information and

ideas

Helps us reach

the people we

strive to serve

Bottom line… social networking

1. Wikipedia, Social Network (2010). Retrieved electronically

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network

2. Wikipedia, Facebook (2010) retrieved electronically

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

3. Ibid.

Reference and Resources