Next week I get to do something I love to do. Get up on stage and talk about social media and networking. The venue will be the National Sunflower Association Summer Seminar in Deadwood, SD.

The National Sunflower Association (NSA) is a non-profit commodity organization working on problems and opportunities for the improvement of all members. Membership in the NSA includes growers and the support industry. There are four general categories of NSA activities: Market Development and Promotion; Production Research; Education and Policy Issues.

I’ll be conducting two sessions. The first one will provide an overview of social media and examples of how it is being used by agribusiness today. Then I’ll conduct a session that will be a “how-to” and hopefully attendees that don’t have social media accounts will have them by the time we’re done!

You’ll be seeing the #NSASS11 hashtag in my tweets next week. If you’re there please feel free to add it to your tweets too. Also, if any of you are sunflower growers, let me know your social networking identity so I can feature you in my presentations!