Extension Communications worked with Extension leaders, content team leaders and faculty and staff to coordinate coverage online. The information people needed did not just come from Extension’s Forestry and Natural Resources Fire Program (627 pageviews) and their events, but also content from Extension’s other program areas. It was also a slight increase in those viewing from mobile devices (65% vs.
As natural disasters affect many communities across Oregon, people contact Extension and search online to get quick answers, to learn more on the subject and to get more expertise in it.ĭuring the peak time during recent wildfires, visitors to the Extension website more than doubled to 18,000 daily compared to the usual 7,000 daily in the weeks before and after.