Engaging Communities Through Issues Forums: A How-To Guide for Onsite and Online Community Engagement

Publication Description

This publication is part of a two-part series. The publication explores the use of forums as a community engagement tool in Extension work. It is a comprehensive how-to guide designed to help Cooperative Extension professionals develop issues forums in both onsite and online settings.

This work is supported by New Technologies for Agriculture Extension grant no. 2020-41595-30123 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Land-Grant Institution

The Ohio State University Extension, University of Delaware, University of Maryland

Author(s) (NAME, EMAIL, INSTITUTION)

Bonnie Braun ,bbraun@umd.edu, University of Maryland

Maria Pippidis, pippidis@udel.edu, University of Delaware

Jesse M. Ketterman, jketterm@umd.edu, University of Maryland

Shoshanah Inwood, inwood.2@osu.edu, The Ohio State University

Nicole Wright, wright.1128@osu.edu, The Ohio State University

Publication Audience

Cooperative Extension

Publication Type

Process Publication

Publication Date

March 7, 2022

Copyright

Copyright © Pippidis, M., Braun, B., Ketterman, J., Inwood, S. Wright, N. 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 978-1-955687-09-6. Published by Extension Foundation.

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USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

This website is supported in part by New Technologies for Ag Extension (funding opportunity no. USDA-NIFA-OP-010186), grant no. 2023-41595-41325 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Extension Foundation.

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