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Agvocacy 2.0 is for everyone – regardless of farm size or kind

June 23rd, 2011

As someone who has been active on Twitter, I have always looked forward to Tuesday night’s #agchat conversations from the very first invitation. When the announcement was made last year that there would be an AgChat Foundation social media conference, I knew I wanted to go – but I had questions.

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Find your tools and build!

June 21st, 2011

I was very fortunate to have gotten involved with the AgChat Foundation last spring by volunteering on the Agvocacy 2.0 Training Conference Committee for planning last summer’s event in Chicago, Ill. While working with the other members of the committee, I thought we had planned a terrific conference and I was right. I will have

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Who knows where the road may take you

June 17th, 2011

I didn’t apply for the first AgChat Foundation Agvocacy 2.0 Conference until the day before the application deadline. Sure, I had lots of friends through #agchat who were talking about it and I really wanted to go. However, I was pretty sure there was absolutely no way I could afford it, I wasn’t a farmer

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Join us for Agvocacy 2.0: August 22 & 23 in Nashville

June 1st, 2011

Learn tools of agvocacy trade! It’s here! After much anticipation, the AgChat Foundation Agvocacy 2.0 Conference is back and ready to welcome a whole new crop of agvocates! This year’s conference will be held August 22 and 23 in Nashville, Tennessee. We are excited to expand the conference by opening it up to 75 people

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Social media comes to farm as foundation brings agriculture into online world

October 9th, 2010

If you are in the Quincy, Illinois area, you should be sure you get the Sunday edition of the Quincy Herald Whig as a couple of people in the AgChat community — Burdette Rosendale and Chris Chinn — are included in an article this week. For those not able to get their hands on a

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