Hello from Japan. This week’s program is coming to you from Tokyo. Cindy and I start out with a review of our trips last week to Canada, Germany and Belgium. Then you can hear an interview with International Federation of Agricultural Journalists President, David Markey. David says that IFAJ is now over 5,000 members strong worldwide. He says we’ve got …
Big Blue Fin Tuna Cutting Show
When I mentioned that we were served food at our welcoming reception I neglected to say the word “fresh.” These guys here are about to slice up this big fish. The Big Blue Fin Tuna Cutting Show was really interesting. The best part was eating some fresh cut sushi as they worked on this big guy. Cindy shot video of …
IFAJ President David Markey Welcomes Us
Also welcoming us to Japan this evening was David Markey, IFAJ President. David says that IFAJ is now over 5,000 members strong worldwide. I interviewed him for my weekly ZimmCast but will have to post that later since I’m running out of steam at this point. IFAJ is made up of all kinds of journalists involved in agricultural communications including …
Yokoso Nippon IFAJ
We were welcomed to Japan (Yokoso Nippon) by Kazumasa Numura, president of the Japan Agricultural Journalists Association (left) and Masaru Yamada, the main coordinator. Our welcoming reception included lots of food and beverage. Just what you need when you’ve been on the go sitting in an airplane for over half a day. Besides welcoming comments we were also entertained with …
IFAJ Congress Ready To Start
It takes a while to get to Japan from the United States. Cindy and I have made it and it’s almost time for the IFAJ Congress to officially begin with a welcome reception in our hotel. I’m really glad that our flights were on time since it was a long flight anyway. It then took 3 1/2 hours to get …
OECD-FAO Assumption Outlook
The more information I receive and read from the FAO, the more I’m disillusioned with the whole organization. I think there’s a lot of well-meaning people there but between them and the Organization for Economic Co-operation (OECD) I’m now more inclined to put them in the whacko classification. Take their “OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook – 2007-2016” report that’s already being quoted …
Getting Ready For Japan
In just a couple days Cindy and I will be winging our way to Japan and the IFAJ Congress 2007. What a week for ZimmComm New Media. Cindy’s in Brussels now as you’ve probably read and I’m back from Canada. Actually I got back last night and went up to Des Moines today to host the first in a video …
Photographing Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show
Here’s a picture of our cohort at the Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show. The show takes place in Woodstock, Ontario which is about an hour west of Guelph. Thanks to Owen Roberts for the pic. They were attending the show as part of the curriculum and this was their photo taking field day. Owen says that the picture was actually submitted …
New Media Class Demo Post
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 …