I was waiting to hear what Steve Leer, Purdue University would have to say in his presentation this morning. His topic is “Interviewing with the Media: Be Careful Little Mouth What You Say.” Instead of the interactive TurningPoint clicker he’s having us write our answers to questions on a notepad he handed out to us. The notepads promote Ag Answers, …
Authoritative Producer Message Delivery
We’re onto the subject of “Delivering a Message to the Producer: Present the Facts, You are the Authority!” This presentation is being done by Fred Whitford, Purdue University. Here’s Fred using some creative props to help make a point. It took me a few minutes to get a picture since he’s wandering all over the room. He also doesn’t need …
How To Talk To CCA’s
Right now Bryan Young, Southern Illinois University is talking His topic is “Targeting a Certified Crop Advisor Audience: Is there Some Middle Ground?” To start out he’s describing what that audience is like and I think it’s interesting that they have a wide range of educational backgrounds from no high school diploma to PhD. He did point out that 70% …
Perfect Poster Presentation
Now it’s time to talk about “Crafting the Perfect Poster: Catchy, Clear, and Concise.” Christy Sprague, Michigan State University, is doing this presentation and we’re clicking with TurningPoint again. I think she’s really just trying to keep us awake. Not really. Our presenters are doing a great job. I think Vince (right) sat in the first row so he could …
Make That Scientific Presentation
Here at the NCWSS Convention Communications Symposium we’re onto the next topic which is on “Presenting Research to a Scientific Audience.” She says we’ve got about 12 minutes to make the presentation so she’s going over how we structure our short presentation including a short introduction, describe our methodology and the results or findings. Our presenter is Karen Renner, Michigan …
Scientific Writing Advice
The communications symposium is still going on here at the NWCSS Convention. Here’s the next presenter after me. He’s Kent Harrison, The Ohio State University. He just finished talking on the subject of Scientific Writing: Meeting the Reader’s Needs. Ken says you can find information on his website. This is a dark room so I apologize for the picture quality.
New Media Demonstration
Here we are in our new media session at the NCWSS convention. This is a demonstration post to show how easy it is to use blogging software to manage your website. Look at all the shiny happy faces behind Vince. They are glad to be here. I’ve only got time for an overview of blogging and podcasting but during my …
Talking New Media With Weed Agronomists
Hello from St. Louis Union Station and the North Central Weed Science Society convention. We’re currently setting up for the symposium session on communications in which we’ll be talking about new media tools to communicate with. Here’s some of the happy crew up bright and early getting breakfast. I hope they had plenty of coffee. The man who invited me …
‘Top Chef’ Goes Mobile
The culinary arts have taken over T.V. They’ve become one of the latests fads for video game consoles. And now, you can even “cook” from your mobile phones. LimeLife and Bravo are launching their new mobile game ‘Top Chef Challenge,’ which is available to download on most major U.S. carries for $6.99. And if you find you can’t tear yourself …
Zimfo Bites
The Agricultural Leadership alumni of Kings and Tulare counties are pleased to host the 14th annual fundraiser breakfast to benefit the California Agricultural Leadership Foundation. This year’s speaker is Keni Thomas. Sgt. Thomas was deployed to Mogadishu, Somalia, during the summer of 1993 as part of Task Force Ranger, a special operation package to find and capture Mohammad Farrah Aideed, …