This week I’m attending the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Washington Watch program. It will kick off this afternoon as will my coverage here on AgWired. This morning I’m doing some media production training with American Farmland Trust. We’ve been talking about editing audio and video since they’re in a podcasting mode. In this week’s program you’ll hear from one …
Mobile Markets & News
This is a fun week for ZimmComm New Media. Cindy and I will be exhibiting at the NAMA Connection Point for the 4th year in a row. You can hear what we have planned at the convention in this week’s program. We’re also very excited about our AgWired Mobile service. We publicly launched it this morning. In case you missed …
NAFB Will Be Watching Washington
The National Association of Farm Broadcasting is holding its annual Washington Watch program at the end of April and for the first time in a few years I’ll be attending. On this week’s program we’ll learn about it from program chair Lindsay Hill, BARN. I know I’m a little late this week but maybe I can get back on my …
Leading The Charge To NAMA Convention
In just a few weeks we’ll be attending the 2008 National Agri-Marketing Conference and Trade Show. ZimmComm will have a booth there so stop by and see us. In this week’s program you can learn all about the trade show from committee Chair, Rosemary Schimek, Corporate Marketing Manager, Farm Progress Companies. Rosemary says that this year’s trade show is the …
National Ag Day in Words
On National Ag Day we’re going to learn more about it from the Vice Chairman of the Agriculture Council of America, Greg Webb, State Governement Relations, Archer Daniels Midland. The Council is the organization that hosts Ag Day and all its related events. In talking to Greg I learned that this year the theme was “investing in people, policies and …
A Binding Way to Find Ag Media
There’s going to be a new publication in the ag communications world coming soon from AGRIpr. It’s going to be the FINDERBINDER Agricultural Media Directory. This morning I had a nice chat with owner Cory Cart. You can listen to our conversation and learn all about it. Cory is a native of Binger, Okla., and is the marketing and public …
The Gene Hemphill Media Reception
There aren’t too many people in agricultural marketing who don’t know Gene Hemphill, Industry Affairs, New Holland. You probably know that we honored him at the media reception at Commodity Classic. This week’s program expands on that theme. Gene is a friend as well as a client and beloved by all of us in the media who have worked with …
Commodity Classic Coverage
I know I’m a little behind with the program this week but what better venue to introduce a new image icon for the ZimmCast than Commodity Classic. We’ve got 4,300 people registered already and more walk-ins will show up I’m sure. There’s also 128 registered media here so far. Both of those are records according to media room manager Bob …
Marketing Farm Machinery
If you’ve never attended the National Farm Machinery Show then you really owe it to yourself to wander around the largest indoor show of its kind in the world. I mean it’s big. I didn’t stay for the whole show this year but I think I covered some ground anyway. While there I spoke with Dan Smaldone, Media Manager for …
Angus Productions Getting MultiMedia
I don’t know about you but I’ve wondered just what Angus Productions, Inc. does. When I got into the media room at the Cattle Industry Convention early last week I saw these little cards promoting www.4cattlemen.com and they said it’s producted by API. That raised even more questions in my mind after visiting the site. So to learn more I …