The NAMA convention is in the home stretch and to unwind a little bit Brownfield came through once again with an awesome party at the Hard Rock Cafe. We were entertained by The Party Nation and they were a blast. As usual it was a tight packed crowd of us “old timers” and newcomers to NAMA. But old or new …
ZimmComm Booth Winners
The NAMA Connection Point trade show is over for 2009 and ZimmComm had a great time. We’ve really enjoyed visiting with so many of our friends and clients who took the time to stop by for some hot tweets and to learn a little more about this phenomenon called Twitter. The winners of our drawing are: HP Mini Netbook: Zach …
A Hard Ass To Follow
Celebrating in wild abandon at this evening’s student NAMA awards is Paul Redhage, FMC Agricultural Products. He “de-throned” two time Hard Ass award winner, Mike Gustafson. I’m not exactly sure how this award is determined. You’ll have to ask the judges. I’m just thinking that I’m glad that trophy will be hanging on Paul’s wall! This award is given to …
Gator NAMA Wins Student Marketing Competition
Gator NAMA showed today that it’s not just the football and basketball teams that can win multiple national championships. Today the University of Florida student NAMA chapter won the marketing competition for the second year in a row! How ’bout them Gators? We’ll have more to post about this inspiring victory later including video. Way to go team. And congratulations …
NAMA Student Marketing Finals
Hello from the Imperial Room at the Marquis Marriott in Atlanta. We’re live in the student finals room and ready to see the competition. I hope you enjoy it. Post Update: We had approximately 170 people watch the live stream from the competition today. I think we’ll do it again next year! We’ll plan ahead this time and have a …
NAMA’s Best
Thanks to Denny Eilers for providing me with photos of our Best of NAMA award winners for each category. First up is Best of Show, Advertising (Left to Right) Tom Bigelow, Bigelow Advertising Rick Radermacher, Bigelow Advertising Chris Lund, AGCO Application Equipment The next ones are Best of Show, Public Relations (Left to Right) Paul Durham, Martin/Williams Kim Dawson, Syngenta …
Student NAMA Marketing Competition Finalists
During our Connection Point session tonight the finalists for the NAMA Student Marketing Competition were announced and here they are. Florida Nebraska Purdue Ohio State Wisconsin-Madison North Dakota State They’ll be battling for the championship and we’ll have the winners announced right here. NAMA Photo Album AgWired coverage of the Agri-Marketing Conference is sponsored by: and .
Best of NAMA Awards
On of our Best of NAMA Award emcees this evening was Sally Behringer, Nicholson Kovac, Inc. You can ask her to explain the makeup and costume. There are more photos in the online album. She and Kyle Bauer, KFRM, announced the winners of our annual awards. Thanks to AgriMarketing Magazine you can learn more online. Winning Best of Show were: …
NAMA Chapter Leaders Workshop
NAMA Chapter Leaders had a workshop then a lunch this morning. I didn’t make it to the workshop but I did make it to the lunch. I have my priorities you know. The workshop presenters were Paige Gilligan, Agrestic Solutions, and Diana Monsen, CAPC. You can see them in the photo bottom left. I interviewed them after lunch to find …
Student Marketing Competition
One of our student NAMA chapters had an unfortunate incident on the way here with a flight and did not make it in time to qualify and compete in the student marketing competition. Penn State NAMA came anyway and we salute their courage. Our judges went ahead and viewed their presentation and critiqued it for them. I don’t know if …