AgWired

I haven’t finished posting everything I’ve got from the National Agri-Marketing Conference & Trade Show so expect some more to show up in time. I just thought I’d take a moment to say thanks to everyone I met this week. This was probably the busiest convention I’ve ever had. I wish I could have spent more time just visiting with friends and colleagues. For those of you who made a point of stopping by the booth just to say how much you like and appreciate AgWired and what ZimmComm New Media is doing I can’t be more grateful. You’re the people I’m doing this for because I love what we do and have always wished we had some more interactive place to showcase what we do. Your support makes it all worth while, even when it’s not easy.

I also want to thank Ned Arthur and Aaron Gilbertie, Truffle Media Networks, who teamed up with me on our Connection Point booth. We’re working together in several ways that include making some new media project presentations this week in cities like Memphis, St. Louis, Des Moines and Kansas City. Yes it’s another week on the agrimarketing highway. We think our two small businesses complement each other and allow us to offer even more comprehensive new media services to agencies and companies. If you’d like us to stop in and show you what we can do please let me know.

Finally I want to say a thank you to the NAMA staff and especially our outgoing Eldon White. They are all a pleasure to work with and make committee chairmen like me look better than we deserve. Thanks go to my trade show committee too for helping put together what I think turned out to be a really good trade show, in fact, one of the best I’ve exhibited at.

I promote NAMA a lot on AgWired not just because I’m targeting most of my content to people who are or should be members but because I believe in the organization. That’s why I’m a NAMA Advocate. I’ve been in agricultural marketing in some form for most of my 27 years of professional life and it is the single most important membership I hold. If you’re not a member the only way you’ll be able to evaluate it is to become one.

The Brownfield party was a “good one.” I’ve been to quite a few and this one gets good marks. I went over thinking I’d just do a walk through and head back to the hotel. That’s not what happened. It’s tough to leave a good party.

Clyde Lear and his pink-shirted crew treated us very well. We got to listen to good music with the band, Crawfish, for one thing.

We did have a little excitement too. A tv crew chased people around sometime late and the buzz said they were taping an episode for Cheaters, which sounds like a sordid and distasteful sort of reality program.

The NAMA Bombers made it to the convention and posed with the autographed movie poster they donated to the ABEF Silent Auction. I know there was good bidding activity on the poster.

From what I understand they drove through some nasty weather and got in a few hours late but safe and sound. I hope they left early today since the forecast here isn’t great. I’m taking a late flight out and hoping nothing is delayed.