AAEA Webinar on Editorial Blogs – Benefit to Publications

Chuck Zimmerman

Just in case you’ve been putting it off there’s still time to get registered for tomorrow’s AAEA webinar on blogging. You don’t have to wait for the Agricultural Media Summit to boost your knowledge. The Member Services Committee is offering a one-hour Webinar on editorial blogs – benefit to publications, how to make them valuable to readers, and the ins …

ACN

AgWired Survey Contest Winner

Chuck Zimmerman

I can’t believe all you people who entered our AgWired Survey Contest haven’t been beating me up for not announcing the winner yet. The survey closed on time but with the travel schedule it took a while to get it taken care of (including the ones we ran on our Domestic Fuel and World Dairy Diary sites). But we have …

Agribusiness

Catch An AgBuzz

Chuck Zimmerman

What do Bret Oelke, George Rehm, Jochum Wiersma and Mark Whitney have in common? They all blog for AgBuzz.com. It’s published by Minnesota Farm Guide in conjunction with the University of Minnesota. The purpose of AgBuzz is to gain interaction between producers and extension service staff. The benefits of AgBuzz are to everyone, bloggers, readers, and extension services. Comments are …

Publication, University

A Binding Way to Find Ag Media

Chuck Zimmerman

There’s going to be a new publication in the ag communications world coming soon from AGRIpr. It’s going to be the FINDERBINDER Agricultural Media Directory. This morning I had a nice chat with owner Cory Cart. You can listen to our conversation and learn all about it. Cory is a native of Binger, Okla., and is the marketing and public …

Audio, Media, Publication, ZimmCast

Another Magazine Goes Mobile

Chuck Zimmerman

In another showing of how mobile information is getting you can now get your AgriMarketing Magazine daily update via mobile phone. It’s interesting to see how traditional magazine companies are finding ways to distribute their content in ways other than the printed page. AgriMarketing Magazine is also distributing each issue in online digital form. We could really see this coming …

Publication

Commodity Update Hires Beth Winters

Chuck Zimmerman

Commodity Update has hired Beth Winters as Direct of Sales – Middle Market Segment. Sounds like things are good in the markets to your mobile phone business. Beth brings extensive experience in the agribusiness industry with her to Commodity Update. A native of South Carolina, Beth began her career in Charleston in 2002 as an Account Executive for QuickFarm, where …

Agribusiness, Markets

James Dean Memorial

Chuck Zimmerman

I’ve got a number of things to post here on AgWired but I think that too many time zones, time changes and meetings are catching up to me this weekend. So here’s all you get today. Actually a lot got done here on the home front including some office catch up work. This post is ag related in that I …

Uncategorized

Hondo Group Team Grows

Chuck Zimmerman

The Hondo Group has added two people to their team, Traffic Manager Van Artiaga and Public Relations Director René Smith. As traffic manager, Artiaga will be responsible for project management and maintaining the flow of jobs for all clients. As public relations director, Smith will be responsible for raising the level of awareness of their clients and The Hondo Group. …

Agencies

AgWired On The Beach

Chuck Zimmerman

Wow, what a day it’s been. To start with the weather has been much nicer than in central Missouri. Then I got to teach a class in podcasting to a group of students at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. From there I drove through Morro Bay to get some Pacific Ocean shots and then on back to Bakersfield for …

University

Cal Poly Ag Publications Class

Chuck Zimmerman

Here’s Dr. Scott Vernon introducing our podcasting class today. We’ve created a demonstration podcast where I interviewed Erin who will be attending the Ag Media Summit again this year along with 20 other students from Cal Poly. If you’d like to get the demo podcast and listen to Erin then you can use this link. We’re about out of time …

Podcasts, University