A host of women in the agriculture industry will converge on Washington the week of June 10th for the annual American Agri-Women Agricultural Issues Symposium and Fly-in. This year’s symposium will be centered around immigration reform within the realm of agriculture. Members of the media and all interested parties are invited to attend the 15th Annual Agricultural Issues Symposium on …
New Media Workshops at the Ag Media Summit
Thanks to the Livestock Publications Council’s latest newsletter I’ve got an early peak at the program for this summer’s Agricultural Media Summit. You can find a general program outline on the Ag Media Summit website. If you want to see the detailed schedule then join LPC or give me a call and I can share it with you. I do …
Ag Media Summit Photo Albums
There’s a new photo album available from the Agricultural Media Summit. It’s got lot of pictures. Even more than mine! In fact it reminded me that I never did upload mine and provide you with a link to the album. That’s done now.
Farm Journal Media Awards
It looks like Farm Journal Media came away from the Agricultural Media Summit with some nice awards. Starting with:
Gullickson Writer of the Year
At Successful Farming I know who gets the tough stuff to write about. It’s gotta be Gil Gullickson. As Crops Technology Editor I’m sure he has a challenge making sure his readers understand some pretty complicated stuff. Now he’s won a big award to prove he’s very good at it.
Using The New Media Tools
The program this week is a followup to the Agricultural Media Summit in Portland, Oregon. Interest is very high in using new media tools like agriblogging and farm podcasting.
Spafford With Hall of Fame Award
Last night I ran into Amber Spafford, Osborn & Barr Communications, who received this year’s Livestock Publications Council Hall of Fame Award.
Reception Time
It’s time to do a little recepting here at the AMS. Starting now we have the BASF Media reception. Then it’s off to the Awards Celebrations Reception, combined AAEA and LPC. Then they have their awards dinners before getting back together for the Dessert Reception.
I’ll get back to you after enjoying a little reception time.
Ciao.
NASS Is Podcasting
I always learn a lot when I teach a workshop. Sometimes I think I learn as much as the people who are attending.
AAEA President Blogs
I keep getting positive feedback from my agriblogging and farm podcasting workshop yesterday. For example, Dan Crummett, current President of AAEA, Rural Life, said he used an idea that came up in the session for a post he did yesterday on his blog.