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Incredible Buzz of #FoodThanks — A Look at the Numbers
November 29th, 2010
The AgChat Foundation offers a heart-felt thanks to food lovers everywhere. Our social media campaign #FoodThanks was to help remind folks of the vast diversity and abundance of our food supply, and recognize the many folks that play an active daily role in bringing that food from the farmer growing it, to the plate sitting
Tags: Darin Grimm, foodthanks
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Farmers Launch #FoodThanks Social Media Campaign For the Holidays
November 22nd, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Heidi Nelson: 503.880.6313 Farmers launch #foodthanks social media campaign this Thanksgiving AgChat Foundation’s website offers five simple tips for expressing gratitude on Twitter, Facebook and beyond November 22, 2010 – With harvest in the rear-view mirror, forward-looking farmers and others in agriculture have been busy cultivating a new social media campaign to
Tags: foodthanks, Jeff Fowle, Mike Haley
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Hundreds Coming Together To Offer #FoodThanks
November 20th, 2010
It’s that time of year when people come together to give thanks. The AgChat Foundation would like to ask that people especially take time to offer up #foodthanks. Launched for the holidays, foodthanks.com provides some simple steps people can undertake to express their gratitude for those people who help provide the food we all enjoy.
Tags: foodthanks
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Economy 2.0? Meet ‘ifarmers’ – they plant, tweet – CSMonitor.com
November 15th, 2010
The Christian Science Monitor published an article today that includes two people from the AgChat Foundation’s Board of Directors. The first couple of paragraphs are below. The article can be read in its entirety on the CSMonitor site. JeffFowle: “Back to baling again. Dew is perfect! #hay10 #agchat” TroyBeast: @JeffFowle “you’re baling hay at one
Tags: Christian Science Monitor, Jeff Fowle, Michele Payn-Knoper
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Bridging the Gap Between the Farm and Urban Areas
November 10th, 2010
Both Michelle Tucker and Warren Parker participated in the AgChat Foundation’s first training conference. They both spoke at the recent 140 conference in Hutchison, Kansas about using Twitter to bridge the gap between the farm and urban areas. The video follows.
Tags: 140conf, city, farm, gap, Michelle Tucker, Warren Parker
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