Profnet's Dan Forbush is leading a session that promotes our Agnews RSS efforts at the National College Publicity Conference in Philadelphia June 15-17.
A pre-conference wiki has been put up here.
May 2005 Archives
Our professional paper on using blogs as a media pitching tool has received attention from Food Systems Insider, a publication that services the food industry.
An article written by James Arnold, "Media Watch: Blogged Down" , prompts the food industry to use blogs as a consumer communication tool.
Last summer's Beef Cattle Short Course blog has received more than 450 visitors. Plans are in the works for our Agnews writers to blog this year's short course scheduled Aug. 1-3 at Texas A&M University.
More than 500 agricultural communicators from across the U.S. and internationally will be meeting in San Antonio May 31-June 4 at the Marriott River Center.
Texas is the host state and representatives from the Texas A&M University System Agriculture Program have been busy for more than a year now organizing this event.
To visit the conference Web site, go to http://ace2005.tamu.edu .
This launches an experiment of blogging technology. Our statewide news bureau is testing to see if this blog could be a useful tool for the news media and general news consumers. It will also be a place to post notes and reference materials pertaining to agriculture and new media.
