The Beef Board Operating Committee meeting is over and before he went to dinner I caught up with Chairman Dave Bateman. A large part of the meeting was taken up by discussion about lower budget projections. Dave says that’s one major issue they’re facing. Another one is the improvements process they’ve been going through for the last year. You can …
Media Room Welcoming Committee
Here’s the Yard-O-Beef welcoming committee in the Cattle Industry Convention news room. It’s always nice to see the staff here and between chocolate and beef we’re well fed. The Convention will pick up the pace tomorrow. Meetings are already taking place though. I’m the Beef Board Blogger once again and have been in the Operating Committee meeting for a while. …
Feeding RSS In St. Louis
This afternoon I got to visit with Bob Callanan and Cassandra Schlef, American Soybean Association. We talked about RSS feeds which I believe you’ll soon see ASA making greater use of to distribute information. In our session we started out looking at how RSS works from the user perspective and then moved to the publishing side. I really believe this …
Secretary Vilsack First Teleconference
Our new U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, just held his first teleconference and I’ve got it recorded for you. He makes a short opening statement then takes Q&A from select media who could ask questions (I was not one of them). I was interested in things like biofuels and rural development of broadband internet access. Both are mentioned several …
Video Marketing
Does your company need justification for creating video for online use? Here’s some interesting information on today’s eMarketer.com. Every retailer knows the importance of moving product, but online the idea may be taking on a whole new meaning. According to comScore, the number of online shoppers who watched retail videos grew 40% in a single year. It is not surprising …
Monster Machine For The New Media Warrior
If you’re in the market for a new notebook computer and if you can afford it then Apple has the answer coming out soon. You can pre-order them now. This is the 17″ Macbook Pro. It’s basically made for the road warrior, agriblogging, farm podcasting, new media mogul of today. There are a growing number of us and I applaud …
Livestock Week
We’ve got a week full of conventions coming up on AgWired. I’ll be the Beef Board Blogger once again at the Cattle Industry Convention in Phoenix while Cindy is attending the International Poultry Expo. It’s a livestock kind of week. Cindy gets on location first so you can expect to see her posts before mine. She’ll be in Atlanta and …
Internet Access Necessary Part of Today’s Events
I just recently spoke with the Ft. Worth Stock Show and found out that they don’t have internet access availability options for the media. However, they are very aware of the growing need for this and I’m betting it will become available next year. I’m just hoping for good AT&T coverage when I’m there week after next. But it’s not …
Ag Media Summit/IFAJ Congress 2009 Registration
Registration is open for the IFAJ Congress 2009. This is a “must-attend” event for anyone in agricultural communications. I don’t care if you’re a farm broadcaster, podcaster, editor, publisher, blogger or agriblogger. You need to be there. It’s not just that there will be good professional development sessions although that’s reason enough. It’s also because this is your chance to …
Blogging The Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair
I never have been able to work out a deal to blog the Chicago Farmers Farmland Investment Fair but I guess the idea got through to someone. Thanks to Rich Schell for the heads up. Chicago Farmers Offering Seminar on Using Social Media Marketing to Grow Your Business at Farmland Investment Fair! Jeff Korhan, green industry speaker, video blogger, Internet …