Poultry Hub:About
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Poultry Hub is a website that allows people involved or interested in poultry production to access and share a wide range of poultry related information, with a primary focus on commercial poultry production.
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[edit] Who developed Poultryhub and why?
Poultryhub is being developed by the Australian Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (Poultry CRC) to encourage and facilitate communication and collaboration amongst those people involved in some way with the poultry industries. Establishing Poultryhub as a wiki encourages the poultry community to explore the potential of the Internet as an effective networking tool and its capacity for facilitating knowledge management.
[edit] What can the poultry industry get out of Poultryhub?
People involved in commercial poultry production, including farmers, industry personnel and researchers, can use Poultryhub to exchange ideas and information with the wider poultry industry community. The site includes:
- a constantly expanding, user-driven encyclopedia focussed on commercial poultry production that can be edited by site users;
- a list of organisations and informational web sites relevant to poultry production.
- a growing register of poultry industry personnel, producers, researchers, educators and support staff;
- education and training information relevant to the poultry industries and its supporting communities;
- a growing register of references, publications and resources relevant to poultry production, research, education or training;
- an overview of poultry-related research activities;
- a free community-driven newsletter that can be used to promote organisations and activities to the poultry community;
- free event promotion tools for those that don’t have budgets for dedicated websites;
- job classifieds (Jobs Available and Work Wanted) relevant to a career in the industries;
Poultryhub gives the entire community a flexible, open forum which allows each user to contribute their expertise and complement each other’s knowledge through the various collaborative and editing tools.
[edit] Participate
Registered Users of Poultry Hub are encouraged to participate in its continued development by editing the content using the edit tab at the top of each page. Proposed changes can be discussed, forum-style, on the discussion pages accessible from the top of most pages (if the discussion tab is red, create a new discussion page for that topic by clicking on it).
Use the Help pages for more information on editing or searching Poultry Hub.
[edit] More on the Poultry CRC
The Poultry CRC performs research aimed at improving the sustainability of the Australian poultry industries, with a primary focus on egg and chicken meat production.
To stay informed about the Poultry CRC's activities, subscribe to their regular email newsletter, eChook, by visiting their website.
