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I was asked to bring to the Agvocacy 2.0 Training five social media tips.

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Truffle Media Networks brings focused agricultural conversations to agri-business professionals across the beef, dairy, poultry, swine, and

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Karlie Justus ( @KarlieJ), PR/social media associate account exec with Howard, Merrell and Partners, talks about how she is working to engage crop producers. What are crop producers using to connect digitally? How can companies like BASF connect to growers? Karlie shares some information on ag media and their use of social media.


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Agriculture 2.0 aims to bring capital to the agriculture industry to develop and launch out new ideas around ag sustainability, food production, energy, and agri-tech. ... Posts that might be of value to you Rework book 39 Social Media Tools Is print still king Truffle Media hightlights One Health: Implications for Animal Agriculture Presentations from the 2010 NIAA annual conference, held March 15 - 17, 2010, Kansas City, Missouri, are now available.

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I just read Whole New (Search) World from Colorado Farm Bureau. Great post about how agriculture can use social and new media tools to move agricultural conversations, ideas, and actions.

While the Twitter/Google deal on real time search is very helpful to making information more widely available, search by itself does not a conversation make. Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc are just tools. Tools help people effect change, evoke action, make things happen; but tools by and of themselves do nothing. I have this great set of tools in my garage but they are never going to make that neat book shelf I need; only a person with talent and time will do it.

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What is happening in agriculture new/social media?

• Know Your Farmer: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced the Know Your Farmer initiative as a way to begin a national conversation to help develop local and regional food systems and spur economic opportunity. Social and new media tools to engage people include Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, and blogs.
• College Aggies Online, is a joint venture of the Animal Agriculture Alliance and American National CattleWomen, Inc. that connects college students from across the country who are interested in promoting agriculture. The online community provides resources to students on key issues to help them better utilize tools such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to share agriculture's story with the public.
• I Love Farmers... They Feed My Soul is out to help the young generation understand the importance of knowing where our food comes from and who produced it. The goal is to use media that young adults use today (including clothing, tattoos, social media, and music) in conjunction with stories about how food is produced to raise the level of discussion around food production.

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September 10, 2009

Stay connected via LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook to learn more about Truffle Media Networks and our show series BeefCast, CropVillage, DairyCast, PoultryCast, and SwineCast.

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Job lists are good leading sources of what might happen in the world.

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