After a long morning on the links, this team was ready for some air conditioning. These were my teammates today in the golf tournament. Mike Wilson, Den Gardner and Lyle Orwig. I think we birdied this hole seeing as how it was sponsored by Charleston Orwig. We did get second place and were pretty happy with how things went. Three …
Golf Tournament Winners
We had beautiful weather to play golf in today. We got some light drizzle once that just cooled us off, otherwise it was picture perfect Florida summer weather. Here’s your winners of the tournament. The team of Atzenweiler, Mader, Moore and Steinbeck. They’re showing off their winning clubs. Second place went to my team, which included Gardner, Orwig and Wilson. …
Guess Whose Thongs
Some people call them flip flops but they also go by the name thongs. I knew the title would get your attention. In the theme of guessing things, here’s another one for you. The first person to guess whose thongs these are will win an AgWired t-shirt. Just use the commenting feature to post your guess. Ag Media Summit Photo …
Who Is Wearing The Watches?
The golfers are back in the club house so I’m trying to get caught up on some posts before heading over to the InfoExpo session which just got started. Here’s a question for you. Who’s wearing these fine Swiss Army watches they received at an IFAJ Congress in Switzerland a couple years ago? If you guess correctly (first one to …
Quasimojo Entertains Again
The opening reception of the AMS was a wonderful party that took place in two different locations. We started out with food in one place and the Quasimojo band in a tent at a different location. The fortunate people moved over early. The unfortunate came late and had to walk through the rain that persisted through the evening. Cindy made …
AAEA Update
John Walter, Agriculture Online, is President of AAEA and he’s got a lot to smile about. After today’s board meeting he told me that the organization is very healthy and that it’s been a pleasure for him to preside over continued growth in membership and sponsors. Topics discussed at the meeting include, new member benefits like professional development webinars, new …
Early Educational Sessions
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 …