An Interest in Pinterest For Kodak Gallery

Chuck Zimmerman

ZimmCast 344Since I’ve been seeing more and more interest in Pinterest in the AgWired community lately, the release about the Kodak Gallery mobile app being able to share photos to the popular social media site caught my eye. I visited with Trent Gruenwald, Sr. Product Manager, Social & Mobile Products for Kodak Gallery to learn more about it.

Trent says the app is available for both iPhone and Android. It allows you to upload photos from your smart phone, view all your Kodak Gallery photos, share your photos either individually, by photo album or group sharing. He says they are continuing to update the app based on feedback from users. Right now the new update is sharing to Pinterest which is only available for Android. It will be available for iPhone in the future. Trent says the Kodak Gallery app tries to combine all the different features you can find individually in other apps. One of the upcoming updates for the iPhone version will be the ability to print your photos.

AgWired fans know I’m a power user of Flickr and I don’t see that changing. However, I can see this app being very appealing to the agricultural community. For example, organizations running events might want to consider using it to create a shared photo gallery that allows attendees to add their photos.

Listen to this week’s ZimmCast here: An Interest in Pinterest

KODAK Gallery is the leading online destination for storing and transforming photo memories—at their most life-like best—into a more high-profile part of people’s everyday lives and environments. Anyone can express their creativity by making a wide variety of personalized gifts such as photo books, greeting cards, and wall décor for themselves and others to enjoy. It’s also easy to share creative projects with friends and family through direct access to social media including Facebook, Twitter and many others.

In June 2001, KODAK, the world’s greatest and most trusted photography company purchased the groundbreaking Berkeley-based company, Ofoto which was founded in 1999. KODAK’s legacy of quality goes into every item that KODAK Gallery produces. We provide the same outstanding service and quality that KODAK customers have come to know and trust.

KODAK Gallery is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastman KODAK Company.

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Melissa Sandfort

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  • Applications for the Murray Wise Associates Foundation have been extended to April 15 to allow promising agriculture students to apply and ensure that no scholarships go unclaimed.
  • Charles Whitt has joined Becker Underwood as communications manager for the company’s U.S.- and Mexico-based operations.
  • Syngenta announced the launch of Catalyst, a new seed brand that gives growers an additional opportunity to purchase hybrids containing Syngenta germplasm and Agrisure trait technology from their local seed company sales representative.
  • Great American Media Services has announced the launch of its marketing services division.
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    How do you know it’s spring?

    Melissa Sandfort

    Mother Nature has farmers in southeast Nebraska wondering when the earliest date is to get in the fields to plant corn. With 80-degree days for the past couple of weeks it feels like spring has sprung. My tomato and pepper plants are in the garage, 4 inches tall and ready to be transplanted to my garden, but I too am leery of a late cold spell.

    So how do you know it’s spring? The trees are budding, our plum thicket is covered with blooms, we’ve already used sunscreen, and I mowed my grass.

    My grandfather can recall a certain childhood story about a man looking for work husking corn. His pay was meals and a place to sleep in the barn. And through this meeting with the unnamed wanderer, Grandpa also learned how you know for sure it’s springtime.

    Listen to my grandpa’s story here. Listen to Grandpa explain

    Until we walk again …

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    Loren Kruse Retiring From Successful Farming

    Chuck Zimmerman

    I just learned that Loren Kruse, Successful Farming Editor in Chief, is retiring. Here’s Loren seated on right with Scott Mortimer and Curt Blades during a visit I made to Meredith headquarters in the fall of 2010. That was when the company had just announced a major rebuild of Agriculture.com. You can still listen to our interview about that here: Interview with Scott Mortimer and Loren Kruse

    So who will be the next Successful Farming Editor in Chief?

    Meredith Corporation (NYSE:MDP; www.meredith.com) announced today that Loren Kruse, Editor–in-Chief of Successful Farming, will retire on September 13.

    During Kruse’s tenure, he consistently enhanced Successful Farming’s relevance through the roaring agricultural economy of the 1970’s; the farm crisis of the 1980’s; and today’s current agricultural boom economy. He was instrumental in the launch of Meredith Corporation’s first website, agriculture.com, in 1995, and supervised the creation of Successful Farming’s first TV programs, “Living the Country Life” and “The Machinery Show.”

    “I have enjoyed a fantastic career at Meredith and have been proud to work for the publication that founded this great company. Each day, I strived to build upon what E.T. Meredith created in 1902,” said Kruse. “The agriculture industry is a dynamic, important industry, and I’ve been dedicated to bringing the very best to our audience over the past 30 years.”
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    Agricultural Public Relations Hall of Famer Lyle Orwig

    Chuck Zimmerman

    During the 2012 Agricultural Relations Council Annual Meeting Lyle Orwig, CEO, Charleston|Orwig, was inducted into the inaugural Agricultural Public Relations Hall of Fame. Here’s Lyle with his award in between past ARC President, Deron Johnson (left) and current President, Mace Thornton.

    I visited with Lyle about his recognition at the meeting and he says he’s very honored and humbled to be part of the inaugural presentation and especially to be inducted along with an ARC founder, Don Lerch. Lyle talks about how the communications business has changed over the years from before we had integrated marketing and how agencies have adapted. When it comes to today’s social media world he says the role of the public relations professional has not changed but how a message is delivered has.

    Listen to my interview with Lyle here: Interview with Lyle Orwig

    2012 ARC Annual Meeting Photo Album

    Agencies, ARC, Audio

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    Melissa Sandfort

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      GROWMARK Legislative Priorities

      Cindy Zimmerman

      GROWMARK government affairs director Chuck Spencer shared some of the agricultural cooperative’s top legislative priorities on both the state and national level during the media day tour this week.

      Chuck and other GROWMARK representatives participated in the Ag Day event Wednesday at the Illinois state capitol to talk with legislators about some of those priorities. “Obviously everyone in Illinois is very concerned about budget, the cost of operations, consistency of policies, predictability of regulation in our business climate,” Chuck says. “We are seeing agriculture in the very fortunate position of being able to grow in this economy. We want to continue to do so.”

      Chuck says a specific priority on the state level is the “Keep it for the Crop” (KIC) by 2025 campaign, a legislative initiative that has passed the Illinois House and is moving through the Senate. “What is important about that is that it’s going to provide additional research dollars for stewardship programs,” in watersheds, nutrient movement, and maximizing efficiency, productivity and profitability.

      National priorities include the farm bill, of course, but also issues related to pesticide application permitting (HR872), transportation (limited exemption for hours of service for agriculture) and renewal of the Pesticide Registration and Improvement Act.

      Listen to my interview with Chuck Spencer here: GROWMARK's Chuck Spencer

      Audio, Farm Bill, GROWMARK

      cropNAtion App Now Available

      Chuck Zimmerman

      It has been a long time coming. Well, not really. It just seems like it. But the cropNAtion App is now available in the iTunes Store and Android Market. The “virtual coffeeshop” was introduced last fall.

      I spoke with Heather Thompson during the GROWMARK Media Tour about the newly available app. She says that cropNAtion is a social network for farmers to share information, photos and more. Work has been going on for the app since the launch last fall. The app does pretty much everything that can be done on the website. It starts out with a map showing where you are and lets you see what others are saying around you or you can move the map to other locations. The app is free btw.

      You can listen to my interview with Heather here: cropNAtion App Interview with Heather Thompson

      GROWMARK 2012 Media Tour Photo Album

      Agribusiness, Apps, GROWMARK

      Farm Podcasting Tool

      Chuck Zimmerman

      Want to improve the audio in the videos you shoot with your iPhone? How about getting the iPhone Boom Mic for your device? Here’s some information about it:

      A boom mic for crisp, clear sound recordings on your iPhone
      2 directional settings let you control the recording
      Small enough to always keep with you
      Attaches to your phone’s headphone jack
      Fits over your case
      For iPhone 4 and 4S
      4 ¾” x ¾”
      Takes 1 AAA battery (included)

      Please note that The iPhone Boom Mic only works with the free “Belkin LiveAction App”

      You can find a lot of other cool stuff at Photojojo.

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      Coming up for air

      Melissa Sandfort

      I have a fairly short list when it comes to things I’m afraid of. And I don’t mean squeamish, I mean scared. Topping the list is any critter that buzzes – horse flies, wasps, sweat bees, bumblebees, hornets. (I guess if you add those all up, that’s quite a start to the list.) If it’s buzzing, I’m running.

      And let me tell you, the joy that comes from me learning about the way agriculture “used to be” from my grandpa has numerous benefits. I get to know my grandfather better, learn how times and technologies have changed and yet some things in life remain unchanged, and every once-in-a-while, I get to hear stories about events from his childhood that make me feel a bit better about some of the charades I used to pull when I was younger.

      This particular story has to do with a couple of teenage boys, bees and a livestock tank. And it’s a scenario I’d never find myself in.

      Listen to my interview with grandpa here. Listen to the story

      Disclaimer: I do hope you are enjoying the audio and art of storytelling.

      Until we walk again …

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