AgWired

After dinner tonight with the Ag Media Summit group Ned, Aaron (Truffle Media Networks) and I stopped by the trade show area to check things out.

This is the lower level area in front of the trade show room which you can reach by going down stairs 1 level from the lobby level. Today the down escalator has been out which means stairs or elevator.

I think we’re set up fine but we’ll be working on our booth tomorrow during the day prior to the opening of the trade show after the Best of NAMA Awards.

It’s a little dark in Monduel’s for the iSight camera on the Mac but it’ll work.

We’re just hanging out here and chatting with our friends in agrimarketing.

If you think this is a good idea let me know and maybe we can set up an AgWired meetup at a location near you.

I think this might be my last post for a while. I should spend more time talking and less time posting.

The AgWired Meetup is in progress and we’re seeing some good early activity.

Here’s Ned Arthur (left) and Aaron Gilbertie hanging out before we got started.

I’ve got my Mac with me here in Monduel’s and will post as often as I get a chance to.

The golfers for the ABEF tournament got off to a good start this afternoon.

Even with the clouds and chilly breeze I’m sure they’d all say they prefer to be out on the course. In fact, the sun did finally come out.

I won’t be at the tournament dinner/awards tonight but will try to get some photos from it. I’m pretty sure Sherry Pfaff (left) and Kathi Conrad (right) here will have some pictures for me.

If I have my numbers right there are 48 people playing golf.

The student marketing competition process has started with the various chapters doing practice sessions.

Here’s the University of Guelph group in their room right when they were getting started.

They’re actually part of CAMA, the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association and we welcome them to the U. S.

When you get registered at the NAMA convention you get a big black bag of goodies. The bags are courtesy of The Western Producer.

One of those things is a registration card for the ZimmComm/Truffle iPhone drawing.

I’ve been running into quite a few people who say they’ll be stopping by our AgWired Meetup in Monduel’s. I know we’re going to have fun.

There’s enough stuff in these bags that you can sit down and spend an hour reading it all. I like the way the Convention program is done this year. It’s kind of like a spiral bound journal book with lots of blank note pages.

As the banner says, we’re welcome in Texas. Thank you Texas agriculture.

Things are mostly set up here in the hotel and the trade show area is coming together nicely too.

I’m currently in an AMS/IFAJ 2009 Congress meeting, which is one of many that take place since so many of us are in town at the same time.

Here’s NAMA President, Stephanie Gable, running the NAMA Executive Committee meeting that’s taking place this morning here at the convention.

The NAMA leaders take care of business early starting with this morning’s meeting.

Besides the NAMA Executive Committee meeting, other organizations hold their meetings here too like AAEA and NAMA. I’ll have some pictures from them for you too.

This will be Eldon White’s last meeting as the staff director. I’m going to try to find a few minutes with him today to talk about that and post it later.