Are you one of those people who wishes they had an iPod? Not a NAMA member yet either? Then now’s the time to join because NAMA is launching a winter membership promotion. New members who join NAMA between January 1 and April 6, 2007 will be entered into a drawing for a 30 GB Video iPod. In addition, existing NAMA …
Cattle Industry Convention Directions
I did a walk through of the Opryland hotel this evening to get my bearings and am glad they have directions spread around. This is just a massive complex. Tomorrow I’ll be setting up shop in the media room and conducting interviews and taking pictures as the opportunity presents. One of the first committee meetings is the CBB Admin Subcommittee …
Visiting With Beef Board Staff
When I wandered in to the Opryland Hotel the first person I ran into was Diane Henderson, Cattlemen’s Beef Board (right). She’s my boss here since I’m posting onto the Beef Board Meeting.com blog. Here she is giving directions to CBB board member Charles Miller and his wife Judy. This Opryland complex is immense and a tour guide is very …
Quesadilla Hamburger in Nashville
It’s not warm here in Nashville but at least it wasn’t snowing like it was in Cleveland which I connected through getting here. After checking in to my hotel across the street from the Opryland Hotel I took a nice brisk walk over to see what was going on and to get my bearings for the next several days of …
Cross Blogging Mania
I’m getting ready to finish packing for some industry conferences and will be doing some serious cross blogging (writing on more than one blog at once) over the next week. Starting things off will be the Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville. I’ll have a lot to post here but will also be posting onto Beef Board Meeting which is the …
AdFarm Named AOR for Destron Fearing
Adfarm has been named agency of record for Destron Fearing which means they’ll be charged with executing all aspects of the Destron Fearing marketing communications plan. “We are excited about the opportunity to work with the AdFarm team on our marketing communications program,” said Rae Powell, Destron Fearing vice president of sales and marketing. “We felt AdFarm was the best …
Cow Parade Raises Awareness in Wisconsin
The numbers don’t lie. The Cow Parade promotion in Wisconsin is a success and putting up some impressive pre/post survey results according to the latest from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. More than 100 colorful cows grazed the Madison area and traveled to every corner of the state this past summer and fall as part of CowParade Wisconsin 2006. A …
Heinsohn Promoted at Rhea & Kaiser
Bonnie Heinsohn has been promoted by Rhea & Kaiser Marketing Communications to director, broadcast and print production. Heinsohn, who joined Rhea & Kaiser in 2003 as production supervisor, is responsible for managing a six-member team while investigating the latest industry trends to improve quality and lower costs in print and broadcast production. “Bonnie brings 14 years of print production management …
Presenting at John Deere
Hi there AgWired fans. This morning I’m doing a new media presentation with the folks at John Deere and their agency, BCS Communications. This is an example post for the presentation. See you later when I get back to the office.
Truffle On The ZimmCast
In this week’s ZimmCast I have a conversation with Aaron Gilbertie, Truffle Media Networks. We talk about our new agreement to work together offering new media services to the agribusiness community. I’m excited about the future of online communications and the folks at Truffle share the feeling. Together we can offer more current channels of communication with our established news …