USDA Rural Development is at it again, helping bring AgWired to rural America in high speed (as well as all ZimmComm online communications projects). Thank you Sec. Dorr for all you do! SDA Rural Development Under Secretary Thomas C. Dorr today announced that Open Range Communications, headquartered in Denver, Colo., has been approved to receive a $267 million loan from …
More BEEF In More Places Video Contest
Where are these young people in agriculture getting the idea to start a blog? Who’s responsible for this nonsense? Is this really any way to communicate with farmers and/or the consuming public? You bet it is! In fact, you might have heard it here first. How about Raising The Steaks by National Beef Ambassadors Michelle Wiggley, California and Leticia Varelas …
Truffle Media Networks Starts Ag Media Conversations
The podcasting folks at Truffle Media Networks are starting a new one to focus on ag podcasting. Although it sounds a lot like my ZimmCast I’m sure glad to see another channel for you to learn about how to integrate new media tools into your agricultural marketing strategy. Agriculture promotion professionals, get ready to download. Ag Media Conversations – the …
Hondo Group WI Grand Opening Scheduled
The Hondo Group is getting ready to have a grand opening for their Darlington, WI office. The grand opening is on May 1 and sounds like a fun party. . . . we are a group of imaginative experts who provide innovative advertising, marketing and public relations services. So just imagine what type of party we can host!
Leading The Charge To NAMA Convention
In just a few weeks we’ll be attending the 2008 National Agri-Marketing Conference and Trade Show. ZimmComm will have a booth there so stop by and see us. In this week’s program you can learn all about the trade show from committee Chair, Rosemary Schimek, Corporate Marketing Manager, Farm Progress Companies. Rosemary says that this year’s trade show is the …
You Might Touch Our iPod
Some of you AgWired NAMA-ites still have your “I’ve Been Blogged” t-shirts from the 2006 convention. They were a very popular item so we’re bringing them back this year. Here’s a few of the ZimmComm girls modeling the shirts we’ll have at our NAMA trade show booth this year. To get one all you’ll have to do is stop by …
Communicating Via New Media Groups
I recently mentioned Clay Shirky’s book, “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations,” and got my copy last week. I’m going to try to share some tidbits from it as time allows since I think this is a book that will really help many of you ag communicators better understand what we’re doing. By “we” I mean ZimmComm …
New Look For AgWired
By now some of you will have noticed that AgWired has a new theme. That’s what we call the look of the website. We’re still working on it but have tried to tie in some of the various ways that I’m connected including Twitter. Please feel free to let me know what you think. It’s just part of the effort …
Easter Recipe Links
I hope you get to eat some of these kind of eggs in addition to the real ones this Easter weekend. I’ll be spending a little less time than normal on the computer this weekend as I’m sure most of you will be too. In the meantime I thought you should have some links to good Easter dinner recipes like: …
Parents Got Beef
Parents who love their kids ought to make sure they’re getting the nutrition of beef. So, as part of the new beef advertising campaign you can find Beef Checkoff advertising in Parents Magazine online. Apparently this is a value-added promotion. One such example can be seen in the latest issue of Parents magazine. On a page titled “Contests and Promotions”, …