Beef producers not able to attend the 2005 Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course can visit this blog for updates throughout the event, which is scheduled Aug. 1-3. Animal identification is just one of several topics to be discussed.
June 2005 Archives
Apple has listed our Agnews Weekly podcast at its iTunes Music Store. If you want to find out the latest about Agriculture Program news delivered in .mp3 format and download to your iPod, go and check out the store.
The 51st Texas A&M University Beef Cattle Short Course is scheduled Aug. 1-3. The first news release can be found here. The 2005 short course will also be blogged by Blair Fannin and Edith Chenault after a successful debut last year. The blog received a Bronze Award from the Association for Communication Excellence in the Best Innovative Use of Technology category.
The Yahoo! Land-Grant Podcasters Group is up. Presentation and .MP3 file is posted.
This group came about after leading a podcasting session at the ACE/NETC/EVP/ACT 2005 Conference in San Antonio. Lots of e-mails coming in expressing interest about podcasting and using it for news distribution.
Texas A&M University System Agricultural Communications is leading this effort and began podcasting its news in September 2004.
The RSS workshop here at ACE/NETC/EVP/ACT in San Antonio is getting ready to start this morning. Lot of interest in how to code a podcast RSS feed from yesterday's podcasting session.
Will be pointing those who are attending this morning's workshop to the Agnews RSS page.
Wednesday's podcasting session at ACE/NETC/EVP/ACT in San Antonio drew a lot interest after there was mention of creating a Yahoo! group, beginning a land-grant "podcasting community." The idea is to share ideas, applications and other information to produce agricultural podcasts. A podcast of the session will follow in the next few days.
