Registration is now open for this year’s BlogWorld and New Media Expo. I attended last year and am hoping to do so again this year schedule permitting. If you really want to hone your new media and social networking skills then this is the place to do it. It would be cool to have other ag folks there! Join us …
Inc. 500 Company Social Media Adoption Grows
Perhaps you’re still wondering if your company or organization should be getting involved in new media. Have you started participating yourself (Facebook, LinkedIn, Blog, YouTube) to become personally familiar with it? It’s kind of hard to evaluate a medium you’re not familiar with. I just saw some interesting new data on how Inc. 500 companies are making use of social …
Social Media Exploding Worldwide
Just in time for a presentation I’m giving at the Turf & Ornamental Communicators Association meeting tomorrow (Blogging and podcasting for profit. Sponsored by Ewing Irrigation and PBI Gordon) is this report from Universal McCann titled, “Power to the People, Social Media Tracker Wave 3.” (pdf-24MB) They’ve done this study globally 3 times now so it’s got some interesting comparative …
Multi Event/Blog Coverage
This week you can see both Zimmermans in action road blogging for two of our clients, National Biodiesel Board and Cattlemen’s Beef Board. You’ll be able to see the posts we’re doing on the National Biodiesel Conference Blog and Beef Board Meeting.com. They both represent an excellent and effective use of this new medium. Both are focused on annual events …
Blog Day 2007 – Oops
Okay. I let Blog Day 2007 pass by without even recognizing it. I admit it. But does it count that I probably posted onto 6 different blogs on blog day? One of the things we’re supposed to do is point you to 5 other blogs you may not be aware of. Although I do this regularly on many of our …
Getting Ready For My Presentation on New Media
Hello from the Canadian Animal Health Institute annual meeting in Niagra-On-The-Lake, Ontario. I’m here to make a presentation to the group on blogging and podcasting as new media tools to reach out to customers and members. At last night’s dinner one of the participants wanted to use my camera so I let her and she took a picture of the …
Organizational Event Blogging & Podcasting
Although we aren’t focused solely on agribusiness here at ZimmComm New Media, it’s an industry where we’ve pioneered most of our work. I thought a couple of example would be interesting and maybe give you some ideas of how you can incorporate blogging and podcasting into your communications efforts. Example number one: Beef Board Meeting. This cattle producer-targeted website now …
Listen to the Blog Business Success Show
The Blog Business Success show went well last night I think. Hosted by Wayne Hurlbert, Blog Business World. You can still find the Blog Business Success Radio show on Blog Talk Radio. We had a nice hour long conversation which you can still listen to if you missed it live. We talked about agricultural communications, Talking News Releases, blogging, podcasting …
A Blogging & Podcasting Conference
Here’s a conference on blogging and podcasting that was just brought to my attention. Of course it’s in San Francisco. Not a bad place to visit in October. It’s being put on by the Advanced Learning Institute.
Event Blogging Example
Blogging an event. How many of you have heard of this? Probably not many. We’re pioneering a whole new concept in journalism. What do we call it? Online journalism? What do you call it when I attend an event and post numerous pictures, audio and even video files which are usually posted while the event is happening or immediately after it’s over?