The American Farm Bureau Federation, “Shining at the PR Summit” is underway here in Denver. I’m feeling my miles this morning after 5 days at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville but thank you to the Brown Palace Coffee & Tea Co. for helping out. I’ll be conducting a session on social media here in just a few minutes. Please …
“Take me Out to the Ball Game” Song and Video Contest
Got a beat in your step and a competitive edge? Here is an interesting contest you might want to consider entering… The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council today announced an impressive lineup of judges for the Council’s contest to rewrite “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”so that it includes a long-overdue reference to hot dogs. Judges will include …
Don’t Miss Out on the Communicating Renewables Webinar Series
Calling all communications professionals. What is one of the most difficult challenges we face? Developing campaigns that will garnering consumer support and product adoption. An example of just how difficult this can be is the corn-ethanol industry. Consumer support has been dwindling for months and this has in part, been driving by media hostility and biased reporting. So what is …
John Deere Photo Library
Doing a story on farming or tractors? Need a good quality photo? John Deere has help in the mail. I just got my John Deere Photo Library Volume Seven. Here’s a new way to send out your photos. In the box was a folded up cut out tractor with tiny magnets holding different parts together. Inside was a John Deere …
NAMA’s Best
Thanks to Denny Eilers for providing me with photos of our Best of NAMA award winners for each category. First up is Best of Show, Advertising (Left to Right) Tom Bigelow, Bigelow Advertising Rick Radermacher, Bigelow Advertising Chris Lund, AGCO Application Equipment The next ones are Best of Show, Public Relations (Left to Right) Paul Durham, Martin/Williams Kim Dawson, Syngenta …
Public Relations Grant Available
Hello non-profits. Here’s a chance to obtain a grant for public relations services. The folks at Harvest PR & Marketing want to help you out. If chosen, they would start working for you in June. At Harvest PR & Marketing, Inc., we believe big ideas can sprout from the smallest and unlikeliest of places. And, with a little nurturing, those …
Three Lessons for Renewables Communicators
From “Darling to Devil” in the blink of an eye – that’s what happened to the biofuels industry in the past year or so – but better communications on the part of the industry could have helped with the damage control and could still help repair some of the damage done. What’s more, the damage done to biofuels could also …
Communicating Renewables on YouTube
We told you in last week’s ZimmCast about the Communicating Renewables Summit coming up in Minneapolis this April. This conference is designed specifically for the challenging task of getting the positive message about renewable energy out to consumers, stakeholders, policy leaders and the media. Conference organizer Joanna Schroeder with 4RCommunications has just released a new promotional video about the summit …
Surviving The Digital Information Transition
I’ve just got to point you to Steve Rubel, Micro Persuasions, once again. He works for Edelman Digital and one of his fellow digerati (Dave Coustan) will be on my breakout session panel at the upcoming NAMA Conference. Steve just did a couple of posts that anyone in communications and marketing ought to read. I’m going to take the liberty …
New Agency Forms in KC
Carol Anderson, managing partner and owner of Anderson Fallon Public Relations, and Mark Perrin, president, JLM1926 Holdings, Inc., today announced the creation of Mariposa Partners, Inc., a full-service public relations agency that will provide a full complement of public relations services to help clients communicate in today’s quickly changing business landscape. The firm, which will operate as an independent subsidiary …