MOFGA Annual Meeting
At the 2010 Dept. of Ag Show in Augusta, MOFGA held their annual member meeting. For those who missed it, here you are… [podcast]http://www.internet-farmer.com/clients/mofga/DeptOfAgME2010/MofgaAnnual2010-final.mp3[/podcast]
Podcasting
2010 Maine Departement of Agriculture – Growing Grains in Maine
I attended the show on the first day and sat in on this discussion about addressing “what’s happening in Maine with growing our own grains”, the session was full of people doing great things with grains. Enjoy! [podcast]http://www.internet-farmer.com/clients/mofga/DeptOfAgME2010/GrainGrowingInME.mp3[/podcast]
Open-Source Software Comes To The White House
This is far from a political blog, but in this article from the NY Times today, I was THRILLED to see that WhiteHouse.gov is now run by the open-source software package called Drupal. For me as the Internet Farmer, I love open-source. The software is free, and after using it for over 15 years I’m …
Common Ground Fair 2009
My friend Tim and I decided to ride our bikes to the fair from Portland. It was great, but more difficult that most rides because of our camping gear and clothes. Loved every second of it! Working with MOFGA, I was able to create a new volunteer job for myself. As the Internet Farmer might …
10 Tips to Build Website Traffic
NY Times had a nice article today listing 10 tips to building website traffic. As an online marketing specialist, this is the basic idea no matter who you are or what business you are in. Maybe you are a larger company that can spend more on advertising to grow traffic, but overall online success is …
Obama's Online Town Hall – Part 1
In reading today’s news, Obama is taking yet another leap of faith to use the internet for reaching millions at almost no cost to our tax payers, and it leaves me speechless. Check out whitehouse.gov for the details on Obama’s 1st Online Town Hall. In the realm of online marketing, I can not think of …
Be It Twittering or Blogging, It’s All About Marketing
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/smallbusiness/12social.ready.html Being the guy who says “I don’t build websites, I build communication and marketing systems”, this article stuck out at me during breakfast. The article is short and simple, explaining the idea of how blogging, podcasting, twittering(a.k.a. tweeting), facebooking are all different forms of making a connection and communicating. And for the majority of …
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Podcasting-Schmodcasting
The businesses that look to get the most out of the Internet these days go past the written word, to audio and video. Putting jargon aside, this means putting video and/or audio on your website. It also means you have a podcast, and could potentially get a link to your website through submitting your podcast …