Osborn & Barr has a new Executive Management Team in place. These 5 people will report to Joe Osborn and Steve Barr. The new Executive Management Team will take over functional management of the agency on a day-to-day basis. In addition, the team will assist Osborn and Barr as they focus efforts on developing more strategic and long-term growth opportunities …
Promotions at Osborn & Barr
Four staff members at Osborn & Barr have earned enough stripes for a promotion. The company says rewarding its valuable employees ultimately rewards its customers with familiar and expert representatives. Osborn & Barr Communications (O&B), one of North America’s leading full service communications agencies, has promoted key staff members to further strengthen its ability to supply clients with innovative and …
Boehringer Ingelheim Funds PRRS Research
As the swine industry continues raising awareness for the need of porcine reproductive and respitory syndrome, or PRRS, Boehringer Ingelheim continues its annual PRRS research award program. The year marks the sixth year of Boehringer Ingelheim’s funding of PRRS research. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., (BIVI) is again seeking research study proposals on the topic of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome …
Doing The YMCA
Thanks to Brandon Souza, Cal Poly – Brock Center, San Luis Obispo, CA for providing me with another video clip from our opening session. Brandon made sure we never forget the YMCA portion of the evening. 2007 Ag Media Summit Photo Album AgWired coverage of the Ag Media Summit is being sponsored by:
AgraGate Picks Meyocks Group
The brave folks at The Meyocks Group have been selected as the agency of record for AgragGate Climate Credits Corporation, my sponsor here at the Ag Media Summit. You can count on the fact that we’re going to be learning more about carbon credit offsets! AgraGate is a subsidiary of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, which has been involved in …
New Bayer CropScience Team Members at R&K
There are some new team members at Rhea & Kaiser Marketing Communications. Rhea & Kaiser Marketing Communications has hired agribusiness communications professional Eileen Crosby as a management supervisor to lead the Southern row crop business for client Bayer CropScience, overseeing activities for the cotton, rice and peanut markets. To further develop the Bayer CropScience team, Rhea & Kaiser also recently …
Paulsen AgriBranding and Blogging
I’ve mentioned Paulsen Marketing before but don’t think I’ve made direct mention of a recently developed division of their company called Paulsen AgriBranding. Thanks to Bryan Bjerke for bringing it to my attention. While visiting their website I noticed their blog and the fact that they’re kind of farming in the office. Bryan will be attending next week’s Ag Media …
USB Sticks with O&B
Osborn & Barr gets a vote of confidence in its communications capabilities. The United Soybean Board rewards a job well done from O&B by renewing the communication company’s contract. The United Soybean Board (USB) selected Osborn & Barr Communications (O&B) to remain its communications contractor. The decision was made at the USB board meeting, July 5-8, in Columbus, Ohio following …
Can You Make The Logo Bigger!
I got an email today after sending out our ZimmNews which has a small ZimmComm New Media logo in it. In the email it said, “Make the logo bigger.” At first glance I thought he meant we should make the logo bigger in the email but no . . . He was bringing my attention to a hilarious song called …
Bike Riding Branding Opportunity
I’ll bet you didn’t know we had a waterfall in Jefferson City, MO. I didn’t either until I was out on a city trail by a creek this afternoon. This isn’t a great shot of it but the bushes were too thick to get close. I’m sure that normally there’s not much water in this creek bed but we had …