After today’s BI PRRS Foundations Seminar I went upstairs at the Marriott to the DTN/The Progressive Farmer 2008 Ag Summit. After all they’re our sponsor. So before I left to the airport I visited with a number of my DTN friends including Adrian Blake, Publisher, who will be the subject of tomorrow’s ZimmCast. Here are the friendly faces of the …
JackPlot!™ National Competition in Vegas
The JackPlot!™ National Competition officially got underway here at the Las Vegas Hilton yesterday sponsored by Winfield Solutions and CROPLAN GENETICS® seed. Friday’s first round allowed all 16 teams to play the game four times. Total scores will be accumulated and the Final Four will play for the championship later today. The winning team – both farmer and agronomist – …
U.S. Farmland Being Lost at Alarming Rate
America is losing rural farm and forest land… some of it the best farmland in the world… at an alarming rate, the equivalent of losing the entire states of Connecticut and Vermont over a six-year period. Bob Wagner, the Senior Director for Farmland Protection Programs at the American Farmland Trust, spoke to attendees of the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture …
Drive Your First Tractor
Let’s see, Cindy’s on her way to Las Vegas for the JackPlot!™ national finals, John’s in Washington, DC at the Farm Foundation’s Food and Agriculture Policy Summit and I’m just about to head out to day two of the Drive Green Utility Tractor Show. Busy times for ZimmComm, eh? Here’s an example of what you’ll be seeing on the Drive …
Florida Spanish Moss
This is spanish moss. I love the stuff. Seeing it means you’re in the south where it’s usually warmer than most of the other places I’m in this time of year. This is a shot I took driving through Starke this afternoon heading to Gainesville, home of my alma mater, UF! I’m going to be having coffee in the morning …
JackPlot™ National Competition Blog
We’re very happy to announce the JackPlot!™ National Finals Competition blog. This is a new project for ZimmComm, working with the folks at Winfield Solutions for CROPLAN GENETICS® Seed. In case you don’t know about JackPlot!™ then you can find out more here. Cindy will be the JackPlot!™ blogger this week in Las Vegas. Here she is checking out our …
ZimmComm Server Upgrade
This weekend we’re moving to a new server. Doesn’t that sound like fun? It does mean that I won’t have any posts up after later on today until tomorrow night though. So why are we doing it? Because we’ve continued to grow and are now hosting 26 different websites! Of course that doesn’t count others we manage on client servers. …
Happy Thanksgiving
I’m just guessing that most of you are either on vacation or thinking so much about being on vacation that you might as well be on vacation. I’m kind of in that mood myself. So . . . Have a Happy Thanksgiving from ZimmComm New Media. And just in case you want to know more, here’s what Wikipedia says about …
Some Social Media Wisdom
Since most of what I’ve been asked to speak about or consult on lately has been social media/networking I have to share this. To start with, the inspiration for this post comes from my latest follower on Twitter, David Alston. So, by being on Twitter and looking at what a follower is doing I came across his blog, tweetpr, and …
A YouTube Justification
Take a look at this graphic from eMarketer today. Where would you like to have your video? For those of you wondering why it doesn’t list YouTube, remember that Google owns it. The networks’ online destinations are a popular place to view video, but Google’s YouTube is still the 800-pound gorilla in the video viewing space. Google, including YouTube, has …