Just when I finally got my personalized Google and MyYahoo pages set up now there’s Windows Live (beta).
I just found out that Talk Digger Shows Who’s Linking To You
What a day it has been at ZimmComm. I’m getting ready to hit the road again with my new little Dell notebook and it was giving me fits. In fact, it took a Norton Internet Security tech about an hour to walk me through all the steps necessary to allow Outlook to check and send email! I think I’ve got all the bugs worked out. At the same time Amy’s working on database maintenance and that created a slew of “situations.” Those have all been resolved too.
Rural Internet Loan Situation
Speaking of New York. There’s an interesting story in the New York Times (requires free registration) about rural wireless internet access titled “Money Is There to Aid Rural Internet, but Loans Are Hard to Get.” I’ve reported before on the USDA Rural Development program that provides loans to companies that want to install and bring more broadband access to rural Americans (farmers).
I just found out about this website ranking tool from 2 New FAO Websites
When we hear about new websites it always gets our attention. Today, the FAO announced not just one, but 2 new websites.
Today On AgWeb E-Pub
There’s a new entry into the world of e-delivered farm news and this time it’s Farm Journal Media’s Today On AgWeb. They claim that it’s “Delivered to the inbox of more than 72,000 farmers.” The new e-pub offers 4 primary sections:
Roll Your Own Search Engine
Have you ever rolled your own? Search engine that is. Now you can. I’ve been a beta tester of Rollyo which lets you create your own search engine called a “searchroll.” You can check out my first one titled agrimarketing.
Dinging Your Way To Your Customers
At the NAMA Agribusiness Forum it was interesting to see a presentation on customer focused marketing from a very non-ag company. Southwest Airlines started Ding earlier this year as a way to interact very closely with their customers. Jill Howard-Allen had quite a few questions after her presentation. I think that people found her presentation to be very different than what they expected.
Kinder, Friendlier Pork Board Website
It’s no longer porkboard.org, now it’s www.pork.org. This is the newly re-designed National Pork Board website. It’s truly a portal to a lot of pork stuff.