I was invited recently to participate in a bloggers only telephone interview featuring John Phipps, host of US Farm Report, who authors the blog John's World, as well as writing for Farm Journal, AgWeb and Top Producer and Kevin Wenzel, Seeds and Technology editor for Farm Journal. As a small town small farmer with a smallish blog I was very flattered to be asked to participate in this discussion.
Other participants included:
Dan Owens of the Center for Rural Affairs, a policy advocacy group working to make the Farm Bill more friendly to family farmers. Dan enjoys an insider’s view of the emerging bill and writes for The Blog for Rural America.
Cindy Zimmerman of World Dairy Diary, AgWired, Domestic Fuel and Zimcom media
Dien Judge of Iowa Independent. His blog is Smokey Hollow
Laura Klein of Organic Authority.com
Tim Wiseman of the University of Kentucky Rural Blog
The hour-long round robin has been offered as a public podcast. You can listen to it here.
The conference was a lot of fun with interesting people with a lot of knowledge of the topic of Internet technology as it applies to rural life and farming. Wish I was a smoother talker, but I guess there is a reason I do most of my opinion-sharing at the keyboard. I have to thank Hughes Net for inviting me to join the discussion.
I guess I am not a very trusting individual. I received an invite to the same thing but decided it was some kind of scam that I was unable to figure out. The Hughes Net thing really put me off when I read it. I figured it was just some kid of fancy ad for them.
ReplyDeleteI actually received another e-mail from them saying they missed me during the telephone interview. I was still too suspicious to click on anything. I guess if they would have used my blogs contact form instead of my alternate contact e-mail I would have believed them.
What an interesting and diverse group. It sounds like they tried to cover all the bases.
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What an honor to be asked to participate!! I look forward to listening to it so I could a put a voice with your blog!!
ReplyDeleteOh, Sam, I wish you had. I would have just loved to hear your questions and to have listened to your part of the discussion. There was actually a certain amount of advertising because it was sponsored by the company, but it was a lot of fun. I was really nervous, but it wasn't bad at all in that aspect.
ReplyDeleteNita, they were an interesting array of folks. I think I will follow their blogs for a while and maybe add some of them. They have some interesting points of view.
And yes, I painted that years and years ago for my little brother.
Onecowgirl, I was tickled, really tickled, to be asked and will read Farm Journal and Top Producer from a whole nother view point now.