Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Leopold Center launches new website

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September 28, 2011

AMES, Iowa -- The Leopold Center’s website has a new look and features designed to better share what’s been learned from the Center’s many projects and partnerships.

New to the site is a central location for items that showcase results of Leopold Center-supported research, programs and in-house projects. The site has more than 150 “Pubs & Papers” including the Leopold Center’s widely-quoted “food miles” reports, directories, guides, extension publications, informative presentations and other materials, all related to Leopold Center-supported work.

Users also can find more details about the 453 projects that are part of the Center’s long-running competitive grants program. In 2004, user-friendly summaries of the findings from competitive grant projects were added to the website. Competitive grants now can be tracked from when they awarded until their completion.

The website, www.leopold.iastate.edu, takes advantage of new technology that offers consistency, more flexibility in maintenance, and the ability to connect content throughout all parts of the site. Pages within the website also are automatically updated when news releases, publications, photos and the Center’s popular On the Ground videos are added.

Other new features include:

  • Cool Tools page, with links to online calculators, directories, planners and other websites that have been developed with Leopold Center support;
  • Home page photo featuring a different partner or project every week;
  • "Share” buttons that allow users to easily bookmark, email or post links for news items on Facebook or Twitter;
  • News feeds that will automatically send subscribers links to all news releases and the Center’s monthly and quarterly newsletters.

The project began in 2009 under the leadership of then Director Jerry DeWitt, who recognized the value of communication and increased use of the World Wide Web for many different purposes. “This new website is a great tool,” DeWitt said. “The value of being able to access what others have learned will help many people go forward with their work.”

Leopold Center communications specialist Laura Miller managed the project with technical support from John Rearick, ISU Brenton Center for Agricultural Instruction and Technology Transfer.

For more info contact:

Mark Honeyman, Interim Director, (515) 294-3711, honeyman@iatate.edu

Laura Miller, Communications, (515) 294-5272, lwmiller@iastate.edu

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