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One of our NAMA Connection Point exhibitors will not be able to make the convention this year. That’s Southeast AgNet, a ZimmComm client. Gary and Robin are spending time with Robin’s Mom who is gravely ill. They sure wish they could be here but they know what’s most important.

So, thanks to their rep firm, Farmakis, you’ll still find information in the trade show. Gary sent along this message:

We appreciate our Farmakis national sales team for setting up and manning our exhibit this year! And we appreciate everyone’s thoughts, prayers and support during this critical time.

Just another example of how food affects life here and abroad: from saving television shows to feeding the world’s poor…

“Men in Trees” fans from around the world have been fighting to save their favorite show with contributions of more than 7,000 food trees planted in impoverished countries. They call the campaign “Plant It Forward.” The trees were collected by a group on the ABC message board, and planted through the non-profit organization Trees For Life International, which has sent each fan a certificate of donation. The collected certificates were delivered to Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment.

Their campaign aims to address the issues of world hunger and the environment while, at the same time, convincing ABC to renew “Men in Trees” for a third season. “Seven-thousand food trees can produce up to 1.75 million pounds of food each year,” reported Sally Johnston, a campaign coordinator. “That’s 70 million pounds of food over the lifetime of the trees and a lot of fresh air.”

Early feedback on AgWired Mobile is rolling in. Here’s a few samples.

You guys are amazing!

I just signed up for the text service. Great idea!

Some questions have been posed, so let me answer a few of them.

We’re going to be pretty selective about what stories we post to AgWired Mobile. The number of daily messages will vary but I’m guessing that it would average about 4 or 5 a day. This week we may send more due to the NAMA Convention. We realize that some people may have a limited text message plan but that’s changing fast. Most carriers offer a low cost unlimited everything plan today so we don’t think we’ll be breaking the bank on messages.

The messages are limited to 165 characters so it’s mainly going to be headlines and when possible, a link to more information.

We’re targeting AgWired Mobile to the same audience as AgWired.com. That has always been the professional in agricultural marketing (commodity groups, agencies, media, agribusiness) keeping in mind that we’re reaching a lot of farmers too. Heck, farmers are agrimarketers aren’t they? We also reach a lot of consumers. If you look around the web you’ll find AgWired content on a lot of websites of all kinds. That’s why it’s so unreliable anymore to just measure reach on site visitors. That doesn’t include all the other places the content is showing up!

Please make sure you’ve got us on your news release/announcement list too. Send ’em to news@agwired.com.

Keep the feedback coming. I’m heading to KC, MO very shortly and look forward to hearing your thoughts there as well.

Now you can keep up to date immediately with the stories posted on AgWired with our text messaging version.

Messages will contain the title of the story and a link directly to it if you’d like to click through and read it right on your phone. It will keep you agricultural marketing professionals on top of your game. Sign up now:

Just text “agwired” to 46786

That’s it. You’ll get confirmation immediately and then you’ll get AgWired updates automatically. News will be sent between 8am-8pm.

We’d love to have your feedback and ideas as we continue to develop this new service.

The new media pioneers just keep on opening up new channels of communication. Stay up to date on your phone or on your computer with AgWired!

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