It is a beautiful day here in KC, MO. This is the view from the 31st floor.
NAMA Registration Is Open
I’m here. Let the games begin. It’s NAMA Conference 2006.
Brownfield Acquires Waitt Farm Network
In the big keep getting bigger department and just received before I could turn my computer off: Learfield Communications announces the acquisition of the Waitt Farm Network. It looks like this gives Kim Lang something new to do. We wouldn’t want her sitting around idle now would we? The network operates in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota and was purchased from NRG Media.
Getting Jazzed About NAMA
It’s time to head to Kansas City. It’s a jazz town but not the same as New Orleans where the NAMA Conference was originally scheduled. I’ll be blogging the conference and already started on the NAMA Blog. Visit it to hear from Conference Chairman, Laurie Christen and Vice Chairman, Barry Nelson.
New China Director For Cotton Council
Cotton Council International has a new Director for China and Hong Kong. What is a sinologist?
SRA Doing Comm Work For Ferry-Morse
Swanson Russell Associates will be providing communications services for Ferry-Morse Seed Company (I love their slogan, “The hand that seeds the world”). That’s a division of Jiffy of the America’s, Inc.
ZimmCast Gets You Jazzed About NAMA
It’s NAMA Convention week on AgWired and this week’s ZimmCast will help get you jazzed about it. Before getting into that though I review my BIO 2006 convention coverage and talk about the current state of the blogosphere.
Sifry’s State of the Blogosphere
In case you’re wondering if blogging is still all the rage you might want to look at some information from David Sifry, on the “State of the Blogosphere.” There’s a lot of blogging going on. In fact, we just created a new one for ZimmComm New Media. It will focus more on information like this and other things little ole ZimmComm is up to. But back to Sifry. He’s got some nice graphs you might want to look at. Here’s a summary of some of his findings:
Farm Leader Now Farm Podcaster
When your farmer board members tell you to podcast, you podcast. That’s what Dean Kleckner, Truth About Trade & Technology is doing. We brought his podcast to your attention recently and at the BIO 2006 Convention I got to ask him about it. You can hear his answer here: 
Kleckner Soundbite (30 sec MP3)
Standard Convention Communications
Here’s some business communicators who are using the new media tools. They’re the International Association of Business Communicators. They’re annual convention is coming up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Can’t make it? Me either. But you can keep up on it with: