As some of the 99 percent demonstrate against the wealthy 1 percent, there’s another 1 percent who deserve our attention. That 1 percent is roughly the percentage of the population key to the survival of all of us: farmers. Of equal concern is the average age of farmers: about 57 (down from 65). Many farms
The image of a farmers’ market doesn’t immediately evoke “high-tech.” Over the years, however, farmers’ markets have slowly adopted digital technologies to reach an increasingly connected consumer. The move toward digital often began with building simple email lists. [source: mashable.com] “I would use [a list] to do a weekly pre-market pump up, tell them what
Louisiana Farm Bureau This Week in Louisiana, Hillary Whittaker explains the importance of social media in the agriculture industry.
Twitter is a really powerful tool for online social networking, promoting your online work and getting to know people in the Web world around you. To maximize your use of Twitter, you want to gain followers on the site. The more people that you have following you there, the more likely it is that they
Make Social Media Work for Your Business In today's competitive, 24/7, global, on-demand, consumer-centric world... newspaper and Yellow Pages ads are gone, replaced by social media “media designed to disseminate through social interaction.” What that means is that the people aiming the messages and the people receiving the messages are working together to create