{"id":7136,"date":"2013-05-01T07:36:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2013-05-02T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:34:25","slug":"another-record-breaking-nama-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=7136","title":{"rendered":"Another Record Breaking NAMA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Once again NAMA is pleased to report that we exceeded last year’s attendance numbers and brought even more agri-marketers to Kansas City for the 2013 national conference with a total of\u00c2\u00a0 1,248 professionals and students from across the country.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the highest attended conference since 2000!<\/p>\n

Anders Sorman-Nilsson kicked off the conference with a discussion of\u00c2\u00a0 his concept of “digilogue.”\u00c2\u00a0 Simply stated it’s taking the measurability of digital communications and combining it with emotion and accountability of more analog style outreach.\u00c2\u00a0 Analog is needed for transformation, digital for information.\u00c2\u00a0 He \"\"<\/a>urged conference attendees to take advantage of new media tools to embrace the transparency being demanded by customers and use them to tell the real story of American agriculture.<\/p>\n

Josh Linkner explained the virtues of creativity calling it the “currency of success.”\u00c2\u00a0 He noted creativity is 85% learned and shared simple ways to nurture creativity in the workplace.<\/p>\n

Throughout the rest of the conference, agri-marketers enjoyed time to meet \"\"<\/a>face-to-face with clients, attend breakout sessions on diverse topics like developing web content and monetizing social media and walk through the Connection Point Trade Show.\u00c2\u00a0 Attendees were encouraged to visit each of the 65 exhibitors to enter to win great prizes.\u00c2\u00a0 Congrats to Teresa Roof, Rosemary Schimek, Cait Schneckloth and Justina Frost, who each won an iPad Mini.<\/p>\n

The Closing Brunch speaker, Damian Mason, had the audience laughing out loud with his special brand of humor.\u00c2\u00a0 Each attendee received a special departing gift from Mason – a bumper sticker carrying the \"\"<\/a>words, “Agriculture: Because Starvation Sucks.”<\/p>\n

During the conference, NAMA presented two distinguished awards. Thad Simons, President and CEO, Novus, accepted the 2013 Agribusiness Leader of the Year.\u00c2\u00a0 Steve Vandeberg, Director, Edectocide Marketing, Merial Limited, was named 2013 NAMA Marketer of the Year.<\/p>\n

Congrats to\u00c2\u00a0 Best of Show Winner – Advertising, Beck’s Hybrids; and Best of Show Winner – PR, Minnesota Pork Board and \"\"<\/a>Minnesota Pork Producers Association! Click here for a complete list of winners.<\/a><\/p>\n

Visit NAMA on Flickr<\/a> to see the full Agri-Marketing Conference album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again NAMA is pleased to report that we exceeded last year’s attendance numbers and brought even more agri-marketers to Kansas City for the 2013 national conference with a total of\u00c2\u00a0 1,248 professionals and students from across the country.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the highest attended conference since 2000! Anders Sorman-Nilsson kicked off the conference with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,278,36,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agri-marketing-conf","category-best-of-nama","category-general","category-professional-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7238,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}