Regional IPM Centers

The Regional IPM Centers strive to increase coordination and improve efficiency of IPM research and extension efforts,  providing complimentary database, communications, and related IT support for working groups and other collaborative efforts.

Please contact your respective region for more information about specific offerings available.

 

Project Management with Basecamp

Basecamp helps organize people, tasks, discussions, and files associated with a project.  Everyone on the team is kept up-to-date on progress and can clearly see upcoming deadlines. .  The Southern IPM Center is happy to add anyone to Team IPM and  will help you  setup your IPM  project and provide suggestions on how you might use Basecamp to stay organized.

 

Online Conversations with Slack

Not everyone needs a full blown project management solution to keep their team together.  For those just needing a forum for people to discuss IPM, Join our Slack.  Current channels give updates on new invasive species reports, new content for Extension and outreach programs, and help with tech, communications, and evaluation.

 

Webinar Hosting and Online Meeting Moderation   

Not everyone is comfortable hosting and moderating webinars on online meetings.  We help with setup, moderation, practice sessions, recording, streaming, and troubleshooting. 

 

Electronic Newsletter Management with MailChimp

Electronic newsletters are a key tool for many outreach and extension programs.  The IPM Center uses  MailChimp  to deliver timely announcements, automatically create E-mail newsletters from Blogs, manage subscribers, track user interaction with newsletters and show what traffic on your website is coming from newsletter or other sources. We help set up your newsletter, connect it to your website, import existing newsletter subscribers, and interpret statistics on how your audience interacts with your content.

 

Content Delivery

The IPM Centers work closely with the Bugwood Center to provide content that can be used in any Extension program and on any website.  Types of content include maps, pest data, presentations, images (including annotated image series, image galleries), video, lists of available publications, and forms for reporting invasive species or pest occurrence.  We’ll help you discover what resources are available and how they can be integrated with your programs by directly downloading content or accessing it from the API.

 

Content Management

Finding a stable and secure place to host a website is only the first step in having an online resource.  Next, you need someone to help manage content, reach out to members of the team to get updates, and put that information online in a timely manner and visually appealing way.  While we would love for every program to have a content manager, that is not always possible.  We offer limited support for content management and training people how to manage their own content to make work with your visitors, social media, and search engines.

 

Advice

 Many groups that we work with are willing to share either how they build a new digital tool or are willing to share the infrastructure supporting their program.  If you want to know what resources are out there or just want a sounding board for ideas, we are available.

 

Web Hosting

Working groups frequently need websites to raise awareness of current pest issues with stakeholders, provide a clearinghouse of information on a specific topics, announce recent activity, outputs and outcomes from ongoing collaborative work that bridges multiple institutions and needs to have neutral branding while representing the contribution from all partners.  The Southern IPM Center will provide hosting of these sites in Wordpress.  After a project ends, the center will continue to provide hosting as long as the group is active and willing to provide input to keep the site updated.