Our program moderator here at the Country Living Outlook Conference is Courtney Yuskis, Director of the Country Living Association. She’s been keeping us on schedule. I’m set up in the side of Replay’s here in Kemper Arena with a pretty slow connection using my Sprint card. That’s why things have been a little slow on the posting front today. But …
Country Living Outlook Conference Underway
The Country Living Outlook Conference is underway here in Kansas City at Replay’s in Kemper Arena. We’ve got 60 people attending from a pretty broad range of company types including real estate, media, research and agribusiness. There are a number of speakers as you can see from my earlier post with the agenda. I’m going to try to have interviews …
The Outlook on Country Living
I’ll be getting an outlook on country living today at the Country Living Association Outlook Conference. It all starts later this morning at Replay’s Bar & Gril at Kemper Arena in Kansas City. Here’s what the program looks like: 10:30 – 11:15 Welcome by Betsy Freese, Living the Country Life 11:30 – 12:30 Luncheon, Patrick Gottsch, President & Founder of …
Blog Action Day Results
You might remember my post on Blog Action Day earlier this week. Now that’s it’s past the organizers have a pretty comprehensive summary of what they accomplished. Remember that the theme was “environment.” For example: 20,603 Blog Participated 23,327 Blog Posts (Google Blog Search) 14,631,038 RSS Readers That RSS Readers number doesn’t count visitors to the respective websites which is …
4,000 Posts on AgWired
I call it a milestone. This is post number 4,000 since starting out on the great agriblogging adventure. AgWired has gone through several designs since it was first started in August of 2004. We really don’t count the serious start of the site though until April of 2005 at the NAMA convention. So most of these posts have been done …
Welcome AgWired Contributor Melissa Sandfort
Just in case you’ve been wondering who the “Melissa” is that’s been posting our Zimfo Bites, it’s Melissa Sandfort. Melissa has just accepted a job with the Cattlemen’s Beef Board as their Trade Media Manager. We want to congratulate her on that and tell her boss, Tom Ramey, CBB CEO, that he’s got a good one. In fact, I just …
Making Some New Media Plans
Today I met with ZimmComm web guru, Robert, pictured here in the middle. If you look at any ZimmComm site, including all that we’ve built for our clients then Robert has been the primary designer and developer. We had a very productive session today. You’ll be seeing the results of some of our ideas soon. On the left is Gary …
Creating New Media Measurement Standards
The Association for Downloadable Media is holding its first ever meeting in advance of the Podcast and New Media Expo. So I’m on the ground and ready to learn more about how new media works and how we can improve the product we produce. Everyone is interested in metrics and that’s one of the main things we’re supposed to accomplish …
Welcomed By Craig Huffhines
The Executive Vice President of the American Hereford Association is Craig Huffhines. He welcomed us to the media day event and reviewed our day’s activities. I’m going to interview Craig on our break to learn more about him and what he’s trying to accomplish in his leadership position with the organization. Craig’s been with AHA since 1992 when he started …
Hearing About Herefords
Class is in session at the American Hereford Association offices for agricultural journalists. I think this is the first time for most of us to actually visit the AHA office. Our program includes topics like new heterosis research, the resurgence of an industry icon, answering the performance call and creating Hereford demand through consumer satisfaction. AHA Media Day Photo Album