Enter to win a free iPad. I thought that would get your attention. You can enter to win if you stop by the Successful Farming booth at the NAMA Connection Point during the 2010 Agri-Marketing Conference. Successful Farming is once again sponsoring AgWired coverage of the conference and we’re glad to see them helping boost Apple profits! By the way, …
Passionate Pressure At IFAJ Congress
The Chair for this year’s International Federation of Agricultural Journalists 2010 Confress is Jef Verhaeren. I spoke with him via Skype to get a preview of the conference before I get there later this week. I’ll be rolling in to Ostend, Belgium on the weekend. I first met Jef years ago at the Green Week event in Berlin and we’ve …
Ag Media Convergence
Media convergence is defined as: “phenomenon involving the interlocking of computing and information technology companies, telecommunications networks, and content providers from the publishing worlds of newspapers, magazines, music, radio, television, films, and entertainment software. Media convergence brings together the “three Cs”—computing, communications, and content.” Source: Encyclopedia Britannica We’re really seeing this in agricultural communications today. New media is not just …
ABM Agri Council/Readex Research Farmer Media Study
It looks like we’ll have another study out next month on how farmers use media, especially “digital.” The American Business Media’s (ABM) Agricultural Council and Readex Research will conduct a major agricultural research study that will explore the use of digital, mobile and social media channels by farmers and ranchers. I hope they survey some AgChatters! There has been a …
ACAJ Announces First Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting Winners
The Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists has announced their Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting Awards. Yours truly was happy to be one of the judges for this first ever award program. You can see the entries on their website. If Sarina Locke thanks her Mum when she accepts the inaugural Australian Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting today, it will be …
Southeast AgNet Adds Two To Team
Southeast AgNet has added two new folks to their team. Marc Stockwell comes on board as a Senior Account Executive, bringing 20 years of advertising sales and management experience to the position. Stockwell was most recently employed with Meister Media Worldwide, where he sold advertising to citrus, vegetable, and ornamental horticulture industries. At Southeast AgNet, he will be involved in …
All Ag All Day
I don’t know if you know Tony St. James or not but he was broadcasting and web streaming live from the U.S. Grains Council International Marketing Conference in Mexico that I attended last week. I learned a little more about All Ag News and I’m happy to see another broadcast business utilizing online tools in a creative way. I thought …
Greetings from Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference
I’m joining you today from Frankenmuth, MI, where I’m attending the 2010 Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference as a speaker. This afternoon, I spoke at the Partner’s Program on social media. I provided tips and tricks for sharing the agriculture story through elevator speeches, blogs and social media networks like Facebook and Twitter. I spoke about the challenges I face …
New NAFB Leadership
Starting March 1, the National Association of Farm Broadcasting will have a new Executive Director. He’s Mark Vail and many of you know him from his career in farm broadcasting both on the microphone and in management. In fact, Mark was just serving again on the NAFB board! So they’ve got a new staff leader with strong roots in the …
IFAJ-Alltech Young Leaders Announced
Alltech has once again sponsored the IFAJ-Alltech Young Leaders in Agricultural Journalism awards. Ten young agricultural journalist winners have been announced. Their awards will allow them to attend this year’s IFAJ Congress, which Cindy will be attending. The IFAJ-Alltech Young Leaders in Agricultural Journalism awards recognize the leadership potential of young members from countries belonging to IFAJ. Recipients each receive …