Right now the first educational sessions are taking place at the AMS. I believe this one is “Create a More Profitable Web Presence” with Don Nicholas, Mequoda Group, doing the presentation. Glad to see they’re blogging. Both of the concurrent sessions seem to be well attended. Perhaps the rain has something to do with that? Surely not. The other session …
AgWired Is Live From AMS Media Room
We’re going to have a live blogging extravaganza from Tampa over the next couple days. Right now we’re about to get our second thunderstorm of the day. No need to water the yard here. AgWired is set up in the media room and Cindy is on her way. She’ll get in late tonight and be posting during the day tomorrow …
BASF Media Room
The BASF Media Room is open for business and equipped with laptop computers and wireless internet access. Our BASF greeting team is (l-r) Amy Fisher, Padilla Speer Beardsley, Allegra Sinclair, BASF and Soren Erickson, Padilla Speer Beardsley. They’re hear to help journalists out with anything they need to get stories done. Right now it’s a little quiet with the board …
Board Meetings In Progress
Registration is now open here at the Ag Media Summit and after lunch the first programs will start. The board meetings of the two main ag journalism groups are going on right now. Here’s the Livestock Publications Council going at it hard and heavy. I’ll try to get a report from LPC after lunch and post later. While LPC is …
Let The AMS Games Begin
Agricultural journalists are getting checked in to Saddlebrook Resort. I just arrived and am getting ready for my first event. It’s a beautifully sunny day with plenty of humidity. Join us for the 10th anniversary of the annual Agricultural Media Summit-the largest gathering of crop and livestock media professionals in the U.S.-July 26-30, 2008 near Tampa, at Saddlebrook Resort, Wesley …
Dolphin Sightings
It has been an absolutely beautiful day out on the water here in Florida. This is how you get ready for AMS! Some of you should know that I will have cigars. There are some great little Greek cigar stands in Tarpon Springs near the sponge docks. The sponge diving business seems to be doing really well. There were a …
A Florida Sunrise
This is one of the things I miss about Florida. There’s nothing like a sunrise over the ocean. My little Casio Exilim did a pretty good job this morning when I was out on the beach after a nice run. I decided to start my photo album for the Ag Media Summit early and include some scenes like this. So …
Let’s Have a Successful Ag Media Summit
Agricultural Media Summit mania is in full swing. My in-box has been busy today. So I thought I’d add to the news by letting you know that Successful Farming is sponsoring AgWired coverage of the AMS, along with BASF. I asked Jana Rieker, Sales Development Manager for Successful Farming and Agriculture Online to fill me in on what’s new and …
Talking AMS With BASF
One of our sponsors for AgWired coverage of this year’s Agricultural Media Summit is BASF. I spoke on the phone to Allegra Sinclair about what we’re going to be doing. This is going to be fun and she’s excited. By the way, I learned that Allegra is an experienced podcaster and recent Mac convert. So, what’s up with BASF and …
Ag Media Summit Preview
You’re going to be seeing some regular pre-Ag Media Summit posts here like this one since I was talking with Diane Johnson today about how things are looking. She says that it’s going to be a big one since more and more companies are realizing that this is “the place to be.” Diane says there’s already 75 exhibitors confirmed which …