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What Are Tags and Categories?
March 19th, 2012
By: John Blue, AgChat Foundation Board Member What are categories or tags? For blogs, categories and tags are single words or simple phrases that are used to describe the type of blog post (news, sports, opinion), what a post is about (tractors, precision farming, corps), or possibly to highlight a theme of a post (spring
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AgVocacy shared at South by Southwest
March 20th, 2011
At SXSW, Emily Zweber (twitter, blog), Jeff Fowle (twitter, blog), Chris Chinn (twitter, blog), and Zach Hunnicutt (twitter) share how farmers are using social and new media to bridge the gap between the 2% of the population who are farmers, and the remaining 98% of people who are not. The panel, moderated by Marla Schulman, are all family
Tags: Agvocacy 2.0, sxsw, SXSW panels
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Why Farmers Should Make Videos
October 13th, 2010
Why should farmers shoot video and what do they need to know? The team at AboutHarvest.com prepared this video for the AgChat Foundation to help share key tips with the farmer members of the Foundation.
Tags: AboutHarvest, farmer, video, volunteer
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10 Ways Small Business Owners Can Use New Facebook Groups
October 7th, 2010
The previous blog post on Facebook pages for farm businesses received good feedback. In light of the changes with Facebook groups, we thought this post from Reach Cast may be of interest. Since Facebook has introduced a revamped Facebook groups, there are a number of people looking into what the changes mean. We’d appreciate any
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What does #ACFC10 mean on Twitter?
August 29th, 2010
This weekend the buzz has gotten louder…. if you follow some ag folks on Twitter, then you have probably seen some tweets with the #AFCF10 hashtag. We wanted to take a minute and explain what is going on. What’s a hashtag? On Twitter, using the pound sign (#) and a word or abbreviation allows all
Tags: #ACFC10, Chicago, social media, training
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