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What would I do…

By + on April 17, 2012 in Just in case, TODDx Talks
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…if I won a blogging trip to Australia? What? A blogging trip? Yes! A few weeks ago, I read a post on Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger blog. He shared… A year ago I was in Queensland for a conference and, sitting at the airport, I had the crazy idea that we should run a ProBlogger Down Under [...]

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No, I haven’t stopped blogging…

By + on March 7, 2011 in Blogging, Social Media, Technology

…but I have been bloody busy with the Agritechnica trade show in Hannover. I set up a social media dashboard in the menubar so you can track the work I’m doing with AGCO in Germany. So sorry, but with doing social media 12 hours a day, I just haven’t been able to maintain my normal [...]

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I’m just sayin’…

By + on January 30, 2011 in Social Media, Technology, Thoughts

Image via CrunchBase As a father of 6, parental analogies are always close at hand for me. It’s why I sometimes say that clients are like children in that when you see them take the things you teach them and they make it their own and excel, you can’t help but burst with pride. Recently, [...]

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7 Effective Facebook Pages YOU Can Create Right Now

By + on October 14, 2010 in Facebook

via marketingsavant.com Cool! Thanks for the <3, Dana! We’re proud of the work that e1evation and Envano have done for AGCO! If you want to see the other 6 Facebook pages that Dana VanDen Heuvel thinks are effective, you can follow the ‘via’ link…

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Social Media for Farmers…

By + on October 11, 2010 in Facebook, Social Media, Thoughts

Image by barockschloss via Flickr Social media is not just for the kids, the young, hip and aware. It’s also for ag producers. I’m David Sparks and I’ll be right back to tell you why. My kids can’t wait to get on Facebook to tell everybody, that has committed to being their “friend”, everything they [...]

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What Companies Want in a Social Media Intern

By + on October 10, 2010 in Social Media, Thoughts

As well as looking good on your resume and netting you college credit, interning in social media can offer you incredibly valuable experience in the world of work, where social media experience is becoming ever-more important. However, competition for good placements can be fierce, so it’s good to know what companies look for in a [...]

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Field trip!!!

By + on June 3, 2010 in Just in case, Social Media

Sue Otten of AGCO, David Sauter of Envano, and I are meeting Randy Sprenger, Electronic Advertising & Direct Promotions, Harley Davidson, for lunch today — can’t wait!!! HD is one of the great global brands and their home is right here in Wisconsin. I’m really looking forward to hearing the inside scoop on how HD [...]

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AGCO wins with social media

By + on May 26, 2010 in Just in case, Social Media

AGCO continues to rock the ag world with social media — this time taking a ‘best of’ award at NAMA… Because social media is just getting started in the ag world, there was no category for social media per se. Instead, AGCO dominated in the ‘broadcast news’ category demonstrating again the value of social media [...]

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AGCO breaks new ground. Again.

By + on April 21, 2010 in Blogging, Facebook, Social Media, Technology

Ever the innovator in social media, AGCO is launching a new Blogger blog today… “A Blogger blog” you say? A global farm implement giant like AGCO surely has other options. “Exactly!” we say, but none were better than Blogger for this project. Here’s why: AGCO already has a main corporate site done in RedDot; we [...]

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While you were sleeping 3/16/2010

By + on March 16, 2010 in Just in case, Social Media

While you were sleeping, I was sleeping — still trying to catch up from last week! Seriously — what a week it was! 4 action packed days at AGCO followed by a 24 hour detention in the Detroit airport waiting to get back to foggy Green Bay. I’m only now recovering from the drama and [...]

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