Hello from the central part of the country. I’ve been a little lazy on posting this weekend I admit. It doesn’t mean nothing has been done though. I’ve been doing some new creative backups of hard drives and computers and a number of other interesting things to get ZimmComm New Media ready for a gangbuster year coming up. We’ve got …
Cooking Up a Good Podcast and Blog
I’m still recovering from a turkey induced coma and food is on my mind. That’s why I was interested to see the Culinary Institute of America using some new media tools. Here’s what their podcast is about: The Culinary Institute of America’s podcast series “Insight From The Inside” gives aspiring student chefs a unique glimpse inside the world’s premier culinary …
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving from ZimmComm New Media and AgWired! Just in case you’re in need of some help in the kitchen I thought I’d point you to some resources. You can find all you need to know here courtesy of the National Turkey Federation. Me, I’m smoking mine.
Funky Tricia Wins Excellence Award
Here’s Tricia Braid-Terry and former Secretary of Agriculture John Block at last week’s NAFB Convention. We didn’t know it at the time but we were in the presence of greatness. Tricia Braid-Terry of Funks Grove was recently honored by the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) as the winner of its 2007 Excellence in Broadcasting Award. The award was presented at ISA’s …
The Marantz PMD 620 is Now Available
I gave a heads up to all the farm podcasters out there recently about the Marantz PMD 620. It’s now on the market and my order is in. So you can expect to see this bad boy connected to the golden ZimmComm microphone soon. One of the cool things about this unit is the speaker built into it which is …
Managerial Insights With Moe Russell
One of the projects I’ve had an opportunity to play a part in this fall has been a series of video presentations with Moe Russell, Russell Consulting Group. They’re for Farm Industry News and sponsored by Asgrow. It’s called the Business Skills Series. Here we are in our last recording session. In this monthly episode Moe talks about risk management. …
Farm Broadcasting’s Future
Some highlight audio clips are featured in this week’s program. I asked past NAFB President, Pam Fretwell and new NAFB VP, Greg Akagi, what they think is the future of farm broadcasting. I think you’ll hear that both are certain there is a good future. I’m also including the full presentation that Paul McKellips made at one of the NAFB …
Some More NAFB Awards
Last week I covered some of the awards given out at the NAFB Convention. One of the things they do is present tenure awards each 5 years after you become a broadcast council member (used to be called voting members). Besides that they give them out more frequently to really old timers like Derry Brownfield, Brownfield Network here (just joking …
Big Sign Big Equipment at Case IH
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a news release about a new sign but Case IH sent one out. This is one big looking monster of a sign. I guess the size of your sign is an indication of the size of your equipment? The Case IH Benson manufacturing facility is sporting a big, bright new sign these days — …
FAO State of Food and Agriculture
The FAO has released it’s annual State of Food and Agriculture report. This year they’re advocating payments to farmers. The State of Food and Agriculture 2007 explores the potential for agriculture to provide enhanced levels of environmental services alongside the production of food and fibre. The report concludes that demand for environmental services from agriculture – including climate change mitigation, …