At this morning’s AMS finale meeting of the IFAJ/AMS 2009 Planning Committee the World Ag Expo held a drawing for a Canon EOS Rebel xTi with extra lens and bag. That’s a very cool giveaway! A lot of the InfoExpo exhibitors had drawings but I don’t know the results of those. The winner of the camera was Janice Keene, McCormick …
AMS 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
Well the party is over. For most people anyway. Tonight we had the 10th Anniversary Celebration for AMS and joint awards ceremonies for AAEA and LPC. The photo album has been updated. Tomorrow morning (this morning) we’ll finish things up here with a planning meeting for next year’s combined AMS and IFAJ Congress. I’ll be there somehow. Ag Media Summit …
Advanced Blogging, ZimmComm Style
My Advanced Blogging presentation is about to begin in the Royal Palm West room. The chairs are starting to fill up. (sort of) This post is just being done in the moments before we get started to provide a live demo for those wonderful souls who are here early to get a front row seat. I’ll be doing some more …
New ACT President
The Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow held it’s annual meeting this morning. You can see a few photos from the meeting in our photo album. Afterward, the now past national President, Matt Splitter and new President, Katy Teixeira, visited Agwired in the BASF Media Room. Katy says that they’re going to work on their website this year. I’m hoping that if …
Onset 5 IN Introduced at AMS
Just before the Ag Media Summit started, Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health invited a group of journalists to attend a session on their new Onset 5 IN product. At the event I spoke with Dr. Scott Nordstrom, Intervet, about the first intranasally administered, five-way modified-live virus (MLV) vaccine for healthy cattle 3 to 8 days and older. He says that this product …
New AAEA Leaders
At today’s annual meeting of the American Agricultural Editors Association, new officers and board members were elected. The new President is Holly Martin, High Plains Journal, pictured in the center of the group here. Holly says that the big push this year for AAEA will be the combined AMS and IFAJ Congress next year in Ft. Worth. She says they’ll …
Amy (Betsy Freese) Winehouse Stops At AMS
We’ve been visited by several celebrities here at AMS. This morning I met Amy Winehouse, (Betsy Freese, Living The Country Life) who sat in on the AAEA annual meeting. I think that Betsy made some kind of challenge about AAEA membership and lost. You can find some additional photos of Amy/Betsy in the photo album. Ag Media Summit Photo Album …
Barbra Makes a Return Appearance
Barbra Streisand, also known as Jodie Wehrspann, Farm Industry News, made a guest appearance at our opening reception party. Doesn’t she look gorgeous in her red and pearls? Since it is our 10th industry of the Ag Media Summit she had a special performance of “The Way We Were.” The reality is that none of us are just exactly the …
My Team
After a long morning on the links, this team was ready for some air conditioning. These were my teammates today in the golf tournament. Mike Wilson, Den Gardner and Lyle Orwig. I think we birdied this hole seeing as how it was sponsored by Charleston Orwig. We did get second place and were pretty happy with how things went. Three …
Golf Tournament Winners
We had beautiful weather to play golf in today. We got some light drizzle once that just cooled us off, otherwise it was picture perfect Florida summer weather. Here’s your winners of the tournament. The team of Atzenweiler, Mader, Moore and Steinbeck. They’re showing off their winning clubs. Second place went to my team, which included Gardner, Orwig and Wilson. …