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July 29th, 2010
Welcome to the AgChat Foundation’s website! I am glad you are here and I hope you find our mission to empower a connected community of agvocates of interest. My name is Ray Prock Jr., I am a second generation progressive dairy farmer from Central California. My family has been on the dairy farm since 1972
Tags: intro post, Ray Prock
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July 27th, 2010
Be sure to join us online tonight for a fast-paced chat focused on ag organizations…those people who help bring our industry together. Given the topic, it only made sense to have a number of organizations submit questions. Since your comments and interaction will help shape the discussion, these questions may or may not be asked
Tags: AgChat, Online discussion, twitter
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July 21st, 2010
I can barely describe how excited I was when, last Friday, I received an e-mail notifying me that I had been accepted to the first-ever AgChat Foundation Agvocacy 2.0 Conference. Me! Just a little ol’ college student trying to become an agriscience teacher who loves to tweet with ag folks in her spare time. But
Tags: Agvocacy 2.0, social media training
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July 19th, 2010
The following blog post was submitted by the team at the International Food Information Council Foundation as a way to provide additional information as we prepare for tomorrow night’s (July 20, 2010) #FoodChat convo on Twitter. We are taking questions from the community via direct message to @FoodChat to help guide the conversation (those not
Tags: food, FoodChat, health, IFIC, International Food Information Council
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July 16th, 2010
When we announced we would hold the first AgChat Foundation training conference, it was with baited breath. Even as the Foundation was conceptualized, discussions turned to training and practice sharing as a key way to achieve our mission of “Empower farmers and ranchers to connect communities through social media platforms.” Selecting a program, the location
Tags: farmers, social media
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