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Social media is changing everything. Are your skills all that they should be…and could be? Agvocacy 2.0 can help.

June 27th, 2010

If you’re reading this, you probably already know a good deal about social media. Perhaps you’ve even seen the video below. (Some three million others have.) Unless you’re working to keep abreast of constant changes, however, your skills may not be all they could be. Agvocacy 2.0, from the AgChat Foundation, is a seminar created

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Agvocacy 2.0 Seminar–putting the power of the media into the hands of farmers

June 24th, 2010

Social media is changing how people everywhere communicate. The AgChat Foundation has developed a conference to help farmers improve their skills with Facebook, Twittter, blogs and YouTube. If you’re already using one of these tools or have been trained in agricultural advocacy, you are invited to the first conference focused on social media use for

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Foundation receives needed support through ‘Seed to Succeed’ grant

June 23rd, 2010

Harvest PR & Marketing has just announced the recipient of its second annual “Seed to Succeed” nonprofit PR grant. This year’s recipient is the AgChat Foundation. The grant is valued at $20,000. Harvest PR’s funds will help the start-up spread its “agvocacy” message and share news of its core program areas, including social media training

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TWEET ARCHIVES #AGCHAT & #FOODCHAT

June 23rd, 2010

For the twitter conversations hosted on Tuesday nights at 8 pm Eastern, see the #AgChat & #FoodChat FAQs. This Week’s Questions The conversations on Twitter each week, revolve around topics and questions that come from the community. We will work with moderators to post the current convo topic and questions here on a weekly basis as

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Strategic Agvocacy

June 23rd, 2010

Empower Agriculture’s Voice Strategic Agvocacy Coordination has allowed farmers and others in agriculture to amplify agriculture’s voice through coordinated efforts. AgChat Foundation will provide guidance, insight and support for campaigns benefitting American Agriculture. Some of the farm agvocacy campaigns that have already proven successful are #thankafarmer & #moo. These campaigns have demonstrated the value of

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