Bart Johnson and Dale Minyo have been hard at work creating a new agricultural media outlet in Ohio called the Ohio AgNet. Programming is scheduled to start tomorrow, April 9 on about 20 radio stations according to the pair when I interviewed them late last week. It sounds like some changes at Clear Channel Communications have led to new opportunities …
Happy Easter From ZimmComm
Happy Easter from ZimmComm New Media. I was looking for a nice image to use for this post and thought of an Easter basket standard – the Cadbury Creme (or caramel) Egg. So, while you’re enjoying one of these you might want to shoot a little YouTube action and upload and enter it for a chance to win some money. …
Dixie Gray is Executive Director of Commercial LifeKnowledge
Dixie Gray has been appointed to be the Executive Director of the Commercial LifeKnowledge team at the National FFA Organization. As Executive Director, she is responsible for licensing and customizing FFA’s LifeKnowledge and collateral materials for other national youth organizations. “Dixie joins FFA from Indianapolis based @Work Solutions, a consulting firm providing human resources and information technology solutions to the …
Clyde Lear With a Mac
This is too good a picture to pass up. Clyde Lear, Learfield Communications, with a Mac. Way to go Clyde. I can just see this happening. Clyde starts using the Mac, realizes it’s pretty cool and contacts Charlie in Learfield Engineering to discuss a company-wide conversion. Next stop is short Roger/Stan/Greg conference call to talk about how much sales revenues …
Is Blue Better
I was looking through my latest issue of Living The Country Life and saw an ad for New Holland. It features a blue cow out in front of a red, green and a sort of off-white cow. All it says is “Looking for a new tractor? whyblueisbetter.com.” That leads you to a website showing off some tractors. You can listen …
NIAA Symposium Release
The National Institute For Animal Agriculture has just sent out its final virtual news room release from its annual meeting out in California. Just like earlier this week they’re using AgNewsWire.AgWired.com to produce and distribute the release. The National Institute for Animal Agriculture annual meeting in Sacramento this week featured a symposium titled “Impacts of Animal Production Safety Practices on …
Let’s Meetup in Dallas Next Week
Hello all you AgWired fans. How about an AgWired Meetup? Next week is the 2007 Agri-Marketing Conference and Trade Show as if you didn’t know. Most of the activities kick off on Wednesday but I know a lot of you will be there early, like me. So the Truffle guys and I are inviting you to stop by and say …
Animart Hires Lepple as Marketing Manager
It sounds like Christine Lepple has the perfect qualifications for her new job at Animart.
Webinars on Webinars & Blogging
If you’re not a regular reader of eMarketer I highly recommend it. Theirs is one of the only daily e-newsletters I subscribe to and actually read. They also send out an eMarketer FYI on timely subjects. The latest is on a GoToMeeting webinar on the Top Ten Webinar Best Practices. I’ve had a number of clients asking about webinars lately …
New Media Workshops at the Ag Media Summit
Thanks to the Livestock Publications Council’s latest newsletter I’ve got an early peak at the program for this summer’s Agricultural Media Summit. You can find a general program outline on the Ag Media Summit website. If you want to see the detailed schedule then join LPC or give me a call and I can share it with you. I do …