About Mission Extension

Hi, my name is Jim Langcuster.

I am a news and public affairs specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System who, among other things, serves as Extension’s principal news blogger.  I also write feature stories, columns, op-eds, press releases and sundry other things, though my training, curiously enough, is in broadcast-film-communication.  

I’m also fascinated with the whole concept of social networking and the role this eventually will play in the work of people like me.  Without a doubt, it will revolutionize our work as Cooperative Extension educators in ways we cannot yet imagine.

I’m a native of north Alabama and twice a graduate of the University of North Alabama, aside from my family, the greatest thing that ever happened to me.  After graduating from North Alabama, I enrolled in the University of Alabama, where I completed my master’s degree in telecommunications. 

I started this blog basically because I have a lot more to say than what otherwise can fit into my blogs on the Alabama Extension Web site.  As any Extension professional will agree, there really is  a back story to every one of the official stories, and I feel a strong compulsion to discuss them from time to time. 

That, in a nutshell, is the purpose of this page.