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Digital Technology: You Can't Do It All. But How Do You Get Through It? - John Blue, from the 2013 Indiana Farm Bureau Young Farmers Leadership Conference, January 26, 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

This presentation will provide actionable information and resources to farmers and ranchers looking to determine the value of digital tools, learn when to stop using one tool and start using another, and discover how people are connecting in digital spaces.
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Digital Technology:You Can’t Do It All.

But How Do YouGet Through It?

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Truffle Media

Ned Arthur, Director of Sales and Content Development

John Blue, Chief of Community Creation

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Thanks to Indiana Farm Bureau for the opportunity to provide you

information you can use.

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Reminder to use#IFBYF13 hashtag!

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1793 The Pennsylvania Evening Post becomes America's first daily newspaper.1851 Selling for a penny a copy, the New York Times debuts.1885 William Dempster Hoard wrote his issue of a "journal devoted to dairy farming.1962 Agri-Marketing magazine started1984 United States newspaper circulation peaks at 63 million people

191 YearsSaturday, January 26, 13

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1995 The American Reporter first daily newspaper on Internet2004 Podcasting started2004 Facebook launched2005 YouTube launched2006 Twitter launched2010 Facebook passed 63 million US people

15 YearsSaturday, January 26, 13

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Landscape

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Write down as many things as you can: What are the things you take for granted about technology today.

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Who is involved inAgriculture Media?

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78+  Ag  agencies70+  Ag  associa/ons160+  Ag  focused  companies232+  Ag  focused  print  media

http://www.agrimarketing.com/

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Print Association

Company AgencySaturday, January 26, 13

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Number of farmsSaturday, January 26, 13

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Relative farm revenue size

http://agtoday.us/us-farmer-subgroups-info-2011

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0823.pdfSaturday, January 26, 13

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http://usda01.library.cornell.edu/usda/current/FarmLandIn/FarmLandIn-02-17-2012.pdfFarms, Land in Farms, and Livestock Operations 2011 Summary

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Pictures via Twitter: Lower Dairy Farm, Tracy Zeorian, Ryan froman, Marilena Barbera, Jennifer Dewey, Chad Ingels, Susie J Kirkham, Suderman Bros, sean harmon, McGregor

Farms, Zach Watson, Philip Brigham, John Pawsey, Brenda Kirsch, Tried&True, Bryan Avison, James Lane

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Trends

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Pinterest has strong Interest

Data fromSaturday, January 26, 13

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Data from

Over 300 million visits per month to Tumblr based sites

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Trends

(Feb, 2012, 850,000 Android activations per day!)Sept, 2012, 1.3 Million Android activations per day!

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iPhone 22%

Blackberry 7%

No smartphone

35%Android

31%

2012 Survey of farmer smart phone use

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With limited resources?Saturday, January 26, 13

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Here are some key stepsIdentifyLearnTriage

ImplementReview

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1) Identify

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Other ways to discover what is coming?

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Other ways to discover what is coming?

http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/

http://www.pewresearch.org/

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How do I discover what is coming?

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Example: Agriculture

2) Learn and Discover

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http://agtoday.us/bse-social-media-in-action

Example: BSE, smoke and fire analogy.

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http://agtoday.us/bse-social-media-in-action

Example: BSE, smoke and fire analogy.

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Remember: you can't do it all!3) Triage

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4) Implement

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Start to understand the return on investment calculations. What metrics need to be collected. How will you know using a service or process will pay off?

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A great resource on understanding ROI in marketing is in Marketing White Belt by Christopher S. Penn, http://agtoday.us/marketing-white-belt (affiliate link).

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5) Review

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Remember:IdentifyLearnTriage

ImplementReview

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Some examples

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Search networks Saturday, January 26, 13

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Find interesting people

Arlan subscribes to these Arlan is on these lists

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Find interesting people

Arlan subscribes to these Arlan is on these lists

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Twitter Chat Schedule - Google Docshttp://agtoday.us/twitter-chat-list

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Twitter as a discussion place

Twitter chats as a source to listen and connect.

Google “twitter chat schedule” or seehttp://agtoday.us/schedule-twitter-chats

A sample of ag focused hash tags: #agchat #farm #ag #plant12 #harvest12 #nppcwpx #agmedia

More hashtags athttp://agtoday.us/more-twitter-hashtags

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Find a safe place to have conversationsSaturday, January 26, 13

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Deciding what to do...

Too many places, not enough time.

There will always be more information and tools than you can use. You must limit, cut out, focus on a few to really reach your goals.

Now What?

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Take aways

Develop a way to stay connected to trends in technology, media, and journalism.

Take advantage of opportunities to try out new approaches to discover, editing, and publishing.

Implement with measurable goals in mind.

Regularly review with those measures and goals.

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Write down as many things as you can: What are the things you take for granted about technology today.

What did you write down?

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Truffle Media

Some #AgNerd / #Technology

recommendationsfrom other farmers

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“For my dairy herd records,Evernote is a couple hundred dollars cheaper than a mobile app designed specifically for that purpose, and is adequate for a herd our size.”Nathan Kringle

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"I needed something where I put the miles on it (not used) and lights that allow me to see better"Dallas Foster

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"We need Otter Boxes because we will run over the phone with the tractor at least once"Emily Zweber

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“Google calendar for scheduling employees.”Carrie Chestnut Mess

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“JD Link is their telematics system. Of course they want a monthly fee but JD Apex has the ability to input costs and then you can create a profit map just like a yield map. I think there would be some very interesting data to mine there."Brian Scott

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"Dropbox to communicate between iPad & PC" Carolyn Olson

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"The iPhone lets me do pretty much everything I need to do for work and home"Meggie Foster

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Questions?

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Contact Information

[email protected]@TruffleMediaTruffleMedia.com/Facebook

(877) 558-7833TruffleMedia.com

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Truffle Media

Ned Arthur, Director of Sales and Content Development

John Blue, Chief of Community Creation

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