ZimmComm New Media announces the first agricultural news media app for the iPhone – the AgWired iPhone App. The app offers one-touch access to all the latest news and information in the agribusiness and agricultural marketing world posted on Agwired.com, including audio, photos and video, and connections to other ZimmComm news sites. The AgWired App features a news tab drop …
Cindy’s Top Ten List To Have Us Cover Your Next Event
After a few days of telling the story of the Alltech Symposium, which I have not finished doing btw, I thought it would be a good time to offer you Cindy’s Top Ten Reasons to have ZimmComm cover your next event: We’ve pioneered online event coverage. Some call it live blogging an event. We like to think of it as …
AgWired is Top Agriculture Blog in PostRank Analytics
PostRank Topblogs 2009 – #2 in Agriculture PostRank Analytics says, “Over 80% of the engagement with your content doesn’t happen on your blog.” This is the hardest thing for today’s media buyers and marketing/communications people to understand. When it comes to social networking and influence the blog is often just the hub of the wheel while most of the activity …
ZimmComm Had a Busy 2009
2009 was a busy year for ZimmComm New Media. Between the two of us and our hardworking freelancers, we did 4310 posts on all websites, including Agwired, Domestic Fuel, Precision Pays and World Dairy Diary. We also did 176 podcasts and too many audio interviews to count. We uploaded 11,282 photos to 48 Flickr photo albums and 88 YouTube videos. …
Beach Blogging
Agriblogging will be happening from the beach for a few days as Cindy and I try to escape the cold, almost winter, temperatures. Although it’s looking like we’re going to have some weather move in tonight. It looks like a chunk of the southeast has had too much rain for a change. We drove past several flooding rivers in Alabama …
AgWired Mobile Browser Version Now Live
The mobile browser version of AgWired is now live. This means that if you open AgWired.com on your mobile phone you’ll get a very simple version of the website automatically. You can see what it looks like on an iPhone below and I’ve also tested it on a Blackberry. There’s no special “mobile version url” that you need to know …
Ag Leader Technology Providing Insights Weekly
Our Precision Pays.com website welcomes new long term sponsor, Ag Leader Technology. Besides direct advertising on the site they’re sponsoring a weekly story called “Insights Weekly.” You can read the first installment below. As we’re well into the dog days of summer, Midwest corn and soybean harvest is looming larger. If you haven’t started combine prep already, it’s time to …
Some Sales & Training Days
I might have been a little “quiet” here the last two days but that’s what 760 miles of driving will do to you. This morning I had a brainstorming session with our sales guy Dave Larson, seen hard at work on his Eee PC. No way I was going to get out of a meeting without a picture. Many of …
Live Blogging AgNite at the RNC
I just found out that I’ll be live blogging AgNite during the Republican National Convention. This is going to be very cool and a lot of fun. There’s an impressive list of companies and organizations already supporting this opportunity to showcase American agriculture to a national audience. You can count on seeing some live video via AgWired Live TV and …