Here’s NAMA President, Stephanie Gable, running the NAMA Executive Committee meeting that’s taking place this morning here at the convention. The NAMA leaders take care of business early starting with this morning’s meeting. Besides the NAMA Executive Committee meeting, other organizations hold their meetings here too like AAEA and NAMA. I’ll have some pictures from them for you too. This …
Comments Are Back On
We’ve finally got the comment feature of AgWired turned back on and working. Starting today, I’m going to leave comments open on all new posts I write. So feel free to join in conversation with me as we look at agricultural marketing together. The posts that I wrote during the time comments were turned off don’t have comments allowed although …
Early Fun in Dallas
We haven’t had this much fun since last year. There are some early arrivals here in Dallas. If you’re the first person to leave a comment on this post and correctly identify the people in the picture I’ll send you a set of ZimmComm retractable ear buds for your iPod. Today has started off a little wet outside from the …
Settling In At the Hyatt
Here’s what Monduel’s, the Hyatt Atrium Bar, looks like from my floor. Keeping in mind that we’re going to have an AgWired Meetup tomorrow evening from 5-7pm here, just take the escalator up to the 2nd level and you’re there. Yes, I’m here in Dallas and ready for the games to begin. I’ve already started a photo album for you …
New Logo for ZimmComm
This week ZimmComm New Media introduces a new logo and a new look for ZimmComm.biz. We’re celebrating 3 years in business and over 2 years helping agribusiness companies and agencies navigate the new media world. Thank you to all the various companies and organizations we’ve had the honor to work with. It wouldn’t be possible otherwise. I look forward to …
An Agricultural Relations Council Report From Bob Giblin
It’s NAMA Convention week here on AgWired. I’ll be blogging from Dallas, TX starting on Tuesday. You can hear all about the activities the guys at Truffle Media Networks and I have prepared in this week’s program. For example, we’re going to be giving away an iPhone at our booth at the convention trade show. You’ve got to register at …
Introducing the Ohio AgNet
Bart Johnson and Dale Minyo have been hard at work creating a new agricultural media outlet in Ohio called the Ohio AgNet. Programming is scheduled to start tomorrow, April 9 on about 20 radio stations according to the pair when I interviewed them late last week. It sounds like some changes at Clear Channel Communications have led to new opportunities …
Happy Easter From ZimmComm
Happy Easter from ZimmComm New Media. I was looking for a nice image to use for this post and thought of an Easter basket standard – the Cadbury Creme (or caramel) Egg. So, while you’re enjoying one of these you might want to shoot a little YouTube action and upload and enter it for a chance to win some money. …
Dixie Gray is Executive Director of Commercial LifeKnowledge
Dixie Gray has been appointed to be the Executive Director of the Commercial LifeKnowledge team at the National FFA Organization. As Executive Director, she is responsible for licensing and customizing FFA’s LifeKnowledge and collateral materials for other national youth organizations. “Dixie joins FFA from Indianapolis based @Work Solutions, a consulting firm providing human resources and information technology solutions to the …
Clyde Lear With a Mac
This is too good a picture to pass up. Clyde Lear, Learfield Communications, with a Mac. Way to go Clyde. I can just see this happening. Clyde starts using the Mac, realizes it’s pretty cool and contacts Charlie in Learfield Engineering to discuss a company-wide conversion. Next stop is short Roger/Stan/Greg conference call to talk about how much sales revenues …