Okay. Here’s our first in class post and this is the cohort, as Owen Roberts calls it. Right now we’re doing this post as a demo of how to write in WordPress. Coming up soon everyone is going to create their own blog. This boring sentence is being typed to create more text to wrap around this picture.
Brisk Morning in Guelph
It’s a brisk but sunny and beautiful morning here at the University of Guelph. I snapped this shot as I walked onto campus from my hotel. I had planned on a few degrees warmer but it felt good after a long hot Missouri summer. Our class here in the Crop Science Building is about to get started so you can …
Blogging From 3 Countries
This is a first for AgWired and ZimmComm New Media. Hopefully tomorrow you’ll see posts from three of us in three countries from three different events. Laura is in Texas, USA attending the Propane Technology Forum, Cindy is in Frankfurt, Germany attending a tour at BASF headquarters and I’m finally in Guelph, Canada where I’ll be passing along what I …
Traveling to Guelph
It’s a travel day for me and a better one than Cindy had yesterday I hope. She’s on her way (maybe there?) to Germany but had flight cancellations and delays that were hard to believe and added many hours to her trip. Me, I’m on the way to Guelph, Canada to teach a new media class for ag communications grad …
NAMA’s New CEO
I talked the new CEO of the National AgriMarketing Association, Jenny Pickett, into taking a few minutes out of her busy schedule to talk to me for this week’s program. If you don’t know Jenny then listen in and hear about her plans for NAMA. For one thing Jenny says that NAMA is going to focus on more chapter leader …
Equipment Trader Insider Blog
I noticed recently that Equipment Trader has a blog called the Equipment Trader Insider. In fact, their blog was one of many to pick up on AgWired coverage of the Farm Progress Show. They also linked to some other bloggers covering the show like Karlie Elliott, who is a junior at the University of Illinois, majoring in Agricultural Communications. She …
Ethanol Wins IndyCar Season
Well, the 2007 IndyCar series is over and as we’ve been saying all season, “ethanol won.” I hope you had a chance to watch some of Laura’s coverage over on Domestic Fuel. She did a great job posting 31 times with most posts containing interviews. She’s also got 179 photos online in her photo album. Thanks to the Ethanol Promotion …
Jenny Pickett New NAMA EVP/CEO
NAMA has a new Executive Vice President/CEO and we want to congratulate her. NAMA president Stephanie Gable says it best in her announcement. Way to go Jenny! Dear NAMA Member: I am pleased to announce effective September 15, 2007, Jennifer Pickett will assume responsibilities of Executive Vice President/CEO of the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA). Jenny is an accomplished not-for-profit professional …
Husker Harvest Days Turns 30
I’ve been asked by several people if I’ll be attending Husker Harvest Days. Wish I could but I’ll be conducting a new media training class for ag communications grad students at the University of Guelph. This will be the big 3-0 for the show. Husker Harvest Days has a special memory for me because I attended on September 11 in …
FAZD Provides FMD Information
In case you don’t know much about foot and mouth disease there’s a new website with all the information. It’s produced by the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease at Texas A&M University. As a Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence, the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense is focused upon the development …