Mindy McAdams is teaching online journalism at the University of Florida and I’ve pointed you to her website before. She’s been writing a series of articles on new media reporting which I thought would be helpful for you budding agribloggers and farm podcasters. She’s looking for some feedback about what she’s written so far since she’s got several more articles …
Donuts Hot And Glazed
I don’t know about you but fresh Krispy Kreme glazed donuts are one of the finer things in life. On my way to Kansas City this morning I stopped and was lucky enough for the donuts to be coming right off the line. In fact, the friendly counter staff pulled one off the line and offered it to me before …
Update on IFAJ and Ag Media Summit
In this week’s program we’ll get an update on the IFAJ and Ag Media Summit program from Joann Alumbaugh, Farms.com. Joann is co-chair of the program committee this year. Our planning committee for the conference met after Commodity Classic in the Worthington Hotel, Ft. Worth, which is where we’ll be at the end of July and first of August. To …
Commodity Classic Media Room Survey
Okay Commodity Classic media people. Now’s your chance to provide some feedback on this year’s media room. The Commodity Classic Media Room Survey is online. I’d like to see them ask some different questions but there’s plenty of room to provide comments so I hope you’ll take the time to respond. It will be very helpful to the staff in …
Rural Broadband At A Glance
Take a look at this interesting document from USDA, “Rural Boradband At A Glance 2009 Edition.” It points out how fast farmers are adopting the use of the internet for business purposes and clearly outlines the challenges many areas of the country still have in getting broadband access. It has a number of interesting graphs like the following one comparing …
Ketchum Has Director of Online Relationships and Reputation
Ketchum has created a new position called director of online relationships and reputation for their Food and Nutrition Practice. Filling that role will be Tom Barritt. Good idea. It will be interesting to see how they manage this. Tom says that food is “emotional and evocative and perfectly suited to social media.” So is agriculture in general and greater use …
Social Media Explained in 1 Minute 12 Seconds
For those wondering what social media is all about here’s a cute little video clip that pretty much sums it up. From Britopian.com via Micro Persuasion.
Sights and Sounds of the Dixie Deer Classic
I don’t know if you’ve ever been to a hunting show but even though I’m a hunter I haven’t until last week at the Dixie Deer Classic. This was a pretty cool event and I didn’t buy too much stuff. So if you’d like to get a feel for it I put together a string of video clips from this …
NCBA Launches Robust Spring Membership Drive
I’m not sure what a “robust” membership drive is but NCBA has launched one. I’m passing this along because one of my Tweeple (http://twitter.com/jaegermaister) sent it to me saying that ” . . . one of our tactics is to use social networking to help spread the word and hopefully touch a lot of potential members that we normally would …
Fastline Promotes Joe McWilliams To President
Fastline Publications has promoted Joe McWilliams from VP, Sales and Marketing to President. The former President and founder of Fastline Publications, Bill Howard, will continue his role as CEO of the company. McWilliams began his career at Fastline as a National Sales Manager in the farm and truck divisions. He has been with the company for 13 years. “This promotion …