There’s going to be a new publication in the ag communications world coming soon from AGRIpr. It’s going to be the FINDERBINDER Agricultural Media Directory. This morning I had a nice chat with owner Cory Cart. You can listen to our conversation and learn all about it.
Cory is a native of Binger, Okla., and is the marketing and public relations coordinator for the Stillwater Convention and Visitors Bureau and is principal of AGRI Public Relations. He says the initial response to the new directory is extremely positive, perhaps even surprisingly so. He says the directory will be useful for any level of farm or farm targeted company and is being priced to be very affordable. I think it sounds like it will be the most comprehensive directory of its kind. The target is a summer release. You’ll notice that I don’t have a web link here (yet). That’s because the website is in its final stages of development. I’ll update you when that becomes available.
Each FINDERBINDER® Agricultural Media Directory will come with six updating newsletters. Frequently provided with these newsletters are new pages for the directory. These pro vide readers with information on new media or media which have had major changes. Each year the number of changes in the me dia will make past issues obsolete.
The listings include names of editors, advertising managers, media owners, addresses and phone numbers, circulation figures and open rates for print media, public service announcement data for radio and television stations, radio and television talk show and interview format programs, and much more.
Publications, radio and television stations must direct a majority of their efforts toward an agricultural or rural audience to be included. Publications must produce two or more issues a year and newsletter format publications will not be included.
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I’ve got a number of things to post here on AgWired but I think that too many time zones, time changes and meetings are catching up to me this weekend. So here’s all you get today. Actually a lot got done here on the home front including some office catch up work. 
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Prior to joining The Hondo Group, Smith was a senior account executive at a communications firm in Houston, Texas where her responsibilities included the development and execution of public relations campaigns. She specializes in industries such as technology, healthcare, real estate, transportation and consumer goods. Smith holds a bachelor of arts in public relations and journalism from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.
Wow, what a day it’s been. To start with the weather has been much nicer than in central Missouri. Then I got to teach a class in podcasting to a group of students at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.
Here’s Dr. Scott Vernon introducing our podcasting class today. We’ve created a demonstration podcast where I interviewed Erin who will be attending the Ag Media Summit again this year along with 20 other students from Cal Poly.
I’m on the Cal Poly campus here in San Luis Obispo and getting ready to start my podcasting class. Students are filtering in and opening up the new iPods we’re going to use as part of the training.