I suppose I could be more of an evangelist for the National Agri-Marketing Association but I’m not sure how. If you’re involved in agribusiness marketing and communications then this is the one group you really have to belong to. I love all of them but NAMA is the one that has truly meant the most to my career over the …
Getting Face To Face
I wish I could have attended all the breakout sessions at NAMA but it’s really difficult to get away when the Connection Point is in full swing and you’re an exhibitor. However, I did make it to some of them. One of our presenters was Paul Adams, President, Paul Adams & Associates. His session was titled, “Put the “High Touch” …
Blogging From iPad
I’m just playing with my iPad. Got my camera connection kit which includes a USB dock connector as well as an SD memory card dock connector. So I experimented with connecting my compact flash card reader and it works! Since my Nikon uses compact flash I can now download pics from it to my iPad and edit them with Photogene, …
Successful Farming Has Customer Insight
Agricultural media and marketing is a team sport. Here is the Successful Farming team in the Agri-Marketing Conference Connection Point. Believe me when I say it’s not easy getting them all together and I know we were still missing a few. I’ll let you guess who. These folks are constantly on the go. One of the team members I spoke …
AGCO Blog
You learn things at a NAMA convention. I ran into Sue Otten, AGCO, and learned that they now have a blog. Could Sue (right) and Jamy Johnson look happier over the fact that they’re now blogging for AGCO? I’m Sue and we’re thrilled to launch AGCO’s blog. Agriculture is a strong community-oriented industry and a perfect fit for social media. …
NAMA Recovery
Like a lot of people, we’re in NAMA recovery mode. Catching up on email, unpacking. You know what its like. I’m still learning how to use my iPad. Using it for this post btw. I think I’ve got all my photos and interviews archived now. Time to work on some new posts! I just got the adapter that allows me …
Leading Chapter Leaders
Chapter leaders attending the NAMA convention get some special motivation and training. This year one of people doing the training was Luann Pisarik, J. L. Farmakis (left). I’m just guessing by all the road signs in the room that they were navigating road blocks to get to their destination. Luann says they had a varied group and their goal was …
ZimmComm Booth Drawing Winners
At this year’s NAMA Connection Point we gave away a Barnes & Noble Nook eReader and a Zoom H2 digital audio recorder. Here’s Cindy with Sara Sims, Valmont Irrigation, who won the Nook. She said it’s another gadget her daughter can teach her how to use. We also drew Kathryn Tokarz, Penn State University, for the digital audio recorder and …
Cindy Gives John The Bird
We all know that John Walter is a social media superstar. Now he has his very own Twitter Bird. Cindy presented John with Ollie the Twitterbird at the end of the NAMA Connection Point trade show. Cindy found the birds online several weeks ago and we brought some along to decorate our booth. After drawing for our main prizes we …
NAMA Agribusiness Leader of the Year
Now that the NAMA Connection Point is over maybe I can find some time to get caught up on my posts. The attendance here is tremendous and the activity level has been at an all time high. We honored an outstanding leader in agribusiness, David Seehusen, Land ‘O Lakes, with NAMA’s highest honor, the Agribusiness Leader of the Year Award. …