We know Michele Payn-Knoper, Cause Matters, as the founder of the weekly Twitter conversation, AgChat. She’s also on the founding board of the AgChat Foundation and has done more work for it than anyone that I know. But she gives all the credit for what we’ve accomplished as an organization to the board and all the volunteers. Well, sometimes you have to give credit back and I’m doing that here. You’ve done an awesome job Michele and a whole army of agvocates love you for it!

I visited with Michele at the end of the Agvocacy 2.0 Conference. She gave me a good wrap up of how things went starting with attendance. There were 115 people attending which I believe more than doubles last year’s inaugural conference. The conference is all about training in social media that includes blogging and effectively using social networking. She says that even before the conference new agvocates had started a blog or Facebook page. One of the things that struck her about this year’s conference is the personal connections that were being made since so many of the attendees had never met each other except online. Because of the value of that networking time was extended this year. So in case you missed my interview with Michele which was part of last week’s ZimmCast I’m posting here for you.

You can listen to my interview with Michele here: Interview with Michele Payn-Knoper

2011 AgChat Agvocacy 2.0 Conference Photo Album