Thanks Tara and Art, Trying to keep up with the technology here! Your comments have helped.
We tracked some interesting stats on our website over the past year. Here is a comment from our stats expert: A notable trend this year is that the mobile visits (smart phones) have increased rapidly from approximately 125 visits per day (to the OMAFRA site) in April 2010 to over 350 per day in March 2011, with Apple devices (iPad/iPod) being used for 74% of these visits (outnumbering Blackberry 10:1) and other systems also being popular. I'm sure it's a similar scenario in your states. Leslie Leslie Huffman 519-738-1256 leslie.huff...@ontario.ca <mailto:519-738-1256leslie.huff...@ontario.ca> ________________________________ From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] On Behalf Of Tara A Baugher Sent: April 13, 2011 3:54 PM To: Apple-crop discussion list Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Scaffolds 4/11 Leslie, In Penn State's case, the format is a feature of the new plone website we have for Fruit Times. Little by little our whole system will be on plone, which will allow each commodity team to manage its own site. When a new article is written, the system notifies each subscriber by email. Hope that helps, Tara Tara A. Baugher Tree Fruit Educator Penn State Extension Adams County 670 Old Harrisburg Road, Suite 204 Gettysburg, PA 17325 Phone: 717-334-6271, ext. 314 Email: ta...@psu.edu <mailto:ta...@psu.edu> Web: extension.psu.edu <http://extension.psu.edu/> Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce. Penn State tree fruit resources: http://frec.cas.psu.edu/ Specialty Crop Innovations Projects: http://www.cascrop.com/ http://www.abe.psu.edu/scri/ From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net [mailto:apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] On Behalf Of Arthur M Agnello Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:42 PM To: Apple-crop discussion list Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Scaffolds 4/11 Hi Leslie, ScaffoldsMD is just something I thought I'd try to provide for people who might prefer to read the newsletter on a smartphone without having to do a lot of zooming in and navigating around the regular pdf formatted version. I asked a number of IT people how one might go about formatting such a document, and found surprisingly few who could offer me specific suggestions without things quickly getting very complex. In the end, we figured out that it's easiest just to take an unformatted text version (which is how I write up each week's issue), and then format the document with small page margins (0.2") and in a large type font (we use Calibri 24 pt), and save it as a PDF. This is what gets posted, and when you access it on a smartphone (regardless of the brand), it just opens in a full screen that you can scroll down as you read. We're tinkering with including some graphics like photos and tables, but this can require more effort to format I haven't gotten any feedback on this version yet, so I really couldn't tell you how many people might be using it. I noticed Penn's Fruit Times is providing a smartphone version, but it looks like they may actually be doing it properly, with some customized formatting to include navigation and search functions. Regards, Art On 4/11/11 4:00 PM, "Huffman, Leslie (OMAFRA)" < leslie.huff...@ontario.ca> wrote: Hi Art, Thanks for your newsletter. Just wondering about the ScaffoldsMD - I know what it is, but wondered how you make the files - what program, what size, etc. I see that Penn State is also providing mobile versions. Any idea how many growers are reading yours on smartphones? Do you need to make different files for iPhones and Blackberries etc? Just trying to keep up with the technology. Thanks, Art! Ps. Thanks for your comments on apple-crop about the rumour of oil reducing yields. Hope others chime in. Leslie Leslie Huffman 519-738-1256 leslie.huff...@ontario.ca <mailto:519-738-1256leslie.huff...@ontario.ca> ________________________________ From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net [ mailto:apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] On Behalf Of Arthur M Agnello Sent: April 11, 2011 3:02 PM To: Apple-crop discussion list Subject: [apple-crop] Scaffolds 4/11 A new issue of Scaffolds Fruit Newsletter for the week of 4/11 has been posted and can be found at: Regular pdf - http://www.scaffolds.entomology.cornell.edu/2011/110411.pdf ScaffoldsMD for mobile devices - http://www.scaffolds.entomology.cornell.edu/2011/4.11MD.pdf This issue includes the following articles: INSECTS - Prebloom pest considerations CHEM NEWS - Errata - Stinkbug control materials DISEASES - Apple scab post-infection control GENERAL INFO - NYSIPM news PHENOLOGIES PEST FOCUS UPCOMING PEST EVENTS -- Arthur M. Agnello Professor and Extension Tree Fruit Entomologist Dept. of Entomology a...@cornell.edu N.Y.S. Agric. Expt. Sta. Tel: 315-787-2341 630 W. North St. Fax: 315-787-2326 Geneva, NY 14456-1371 http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/faculty/agnello Scaffolds Fruit Journal online [NOTE NEW ADDRESS]: http://www.scaffolds.entomology.cornell.edu/index.html
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