It’s time to do a little recepting here at the AMS. Starting now we have the BASF Media reception. Then it’s off to the Awards Celebrations Reception, combined AAEA and LPC. Then they have their awards dinners before getting back together for the Dessert Reception.
I’ll get back to you after enjoying a little reception time.
Ciao.
I always learn a lot when I teach a workshop. Sometimes I think I learn as much as the people who are attending.
Here’s a good example. I learned that the National Agricultural Statistic Services has added podcasts to their website. NASS has contracted with the National Association of Farm Broadcasting to have them produce these audio reports.
Besides the audio podcasts NASS also has RSS feeds of their reports you can subscribe to.
I keep getting positive feedback from my agriblogging and farm podcasting workshop yesterday. For example, Dan Crummett, current President of AAEA, Rural Life, said he used an idea that came up in the session for a post he did yesterday on his blog.
I didn’t even know Dan had a blog. You can find “Dan Crummett’s Rural Life Thoughts” through the publication’s website.
InfoExpo can be kind of relaxing when seminars are in progress. Here at the boelte-hall booth it was time to play darts.
The player is Joe Fuller, Camp Cooley Ranch. Also in the booth for boelte-hall are Don Norton and Terry Ward.
I’ll let you judge how well Joe did: 
Shooting Darts With boelte-hall (1 min wmv)
After lunch today all the members of the IFAJ 2009 Committee got together in our white shirts sporting the Congress logo for a quick picture.
These are the people who are already working on things like farm tours, sponsorships, seminars, facilities and communications for the international event which will be held in conjunction with the Ag Media Summit.
We will have a website for the event announced soon and you can count on the fact that it will be a blog!
At lunch today Greg Lamp (speaking), Corn and Soybean Digest, and Mike Wilson, Farm Futures, gave us a presentation on the 2009 International Federation of Agricultural Journalists Congress (IFAJ) which will be held in Ft. Worth, TX.
Greg and Mike are on the leadership team for IFAJ. They gave a short overview of how the IFAJ meeting will overlap the AMS that year. One of the things we’ll be trying to do is mentor each incoming foreign ag journalist.
This could become a regular feature here on AgWired. Guess whose shoes these are.
Post your comment and give it your best shot. The first correct answer wins. Wins what? I’m not sure yet. Probably something from the AgWired prize stash.
This picture was taken this morning in the InfoExpo area.
The InfoExpo is in full swing here at the Ag Media Summit. I’m getting ready to spend some time there and conduct some interviews.
Here’s Diane Henderson, Cattlemen’s Beef Board, setting up yesterday afternoon. I think there’s about 70 different organizations exhibiting this year which is a record.
These booths provide an opportunity for representatives of these various companies and organizations to develop media relationships. I think it’s time for me to go work on that myself.
I am truly such an idiot. I didn’t record my presentation yesterday or the roundtable discussion on the same subject this morning.
I just led a discussion on agriblogging and farm podcasting after breakfast. There were about 11 people in the discussion and it was excellent. I am fascinated by the interest in podcasting on the part of publications, especially when I see so little interest in it on the part of farm broadcasters.
We talked about things like blogger credibility, difference between posting audio files on a website vs. podcasting, equipment and software options and much more.
Would you be interested in hearing a presentation/discussion on these topics? If so, I will organize a series of them over the coming months which will be available here on AgWired and perhaps some other venues.
The Agriblogging and Farm Podcasting workshop is over. I would estimate about 70 in attendance. For some reason I didn’t get any more pics for you but I might find one that someone else took and add it later.
I always start these sessions out asking how many people know what a blog is, have a blog, know what a podcast is, own an iPod and subscribe to podcasts. This group had the highest showing of hands of any I’ve presented to. I’m impressed. Does it mean that these new media tools are becoming more widespread and accepted?
We only had an hour and a half to spend together so I was going fast and providing an online demonstration. I’m wondering if I was trying to cover too much ground. I’m very interested in feedback so if you participated this morning please feel free to post your comments or questions here.
I promised everyone a Resources Page (Word Doc) with links and suggestions of places to find more information, including some previous posts I’ve done on “How I Blog” which has a Part One and a Part Two. Now you have them!
