Social media potential for agriculture

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Potential of Social Media in Agriculture

Anne Mims Adrian, PhDaadrian@auburn.edublog.anneadrian.comtwitter.com/aafromaa

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What is Social Media?Any media connected to the Internet which enables interaction between two or more people.

WHAT MAKES SOCIAL NETWORKING WORK?

Behind every profile, tweet or tag: real people, genuine intentions, quality contentSource: Social media playbook,2009 Eloqua Corporation

Farmers’ Use of Internet

47% spend 5+ hours per week online62% have sent or received text messages

during the past year 85% indicated that they visit Web sites

related to their farm operation76% check manufacturers' Web sites

2009 Agriculture New Media Usage Study (large corn and soybean growers, Nicholson Kovac, Inc.) http://www.prweb.com/releases/Nicholson-Kovac/AgMedia-Study/prweb2767974.htm

Farmers’ Most Popular Internet Uses

EmailWeather Market reports

“Early adopters who are influencers in their communities are already engaged in exploring new media platforms."

2009 Agriculture New Media Usage Study (large corn and soybean growers, Nicholson Kovac, Inc.) http://www.prweb.com/releases/Nicholson-Kovac/AgMedia-Study/prweb2767974.htm

Social Networks (in millions)

Facebook Users

US Facebook User

US Social Network Users

US Population

500

128

147.36

307

EXAMPLE FACEBOOK PAGE

http://www.facebook.com/GDFmilk?ref=ts

Twitter

Answer “What is happening?”

Share thoughts.

Share links.

Ask questions.

Answer questions.

…in 140 characters or less.

Twitter stats

2008 2009 2010

4% of US Internet users6 million

11% US Internet users11 million

15% US Internet users18 million

Twitter stats

92.4% of Twitter users follow fewer than 100 other Twitter users.

emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007271

Inside Twitter An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World

Twitter stats

Social, conversational, responsive, & timely.

Convenient with applications & hashtags.

@FollowFarmer is a list of ag people who use Twitter.

dataforag.com/followfarmer.a5w

YouTube

95.4 million videos (May 2009)

2 billion videos viewed each day (May 2010)

More video is uploaded in 60 days than all three major U.S. networks created in 60 years.

24 hours of video uploaded every minute.

thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ & thefuturebuzz.com/2009/07/10/future-marketing-trends/& http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/17/youtube-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/

Farmers’ Videos

Will Gilmer Water n Poo ...a song about nutrient management youtube.com/watch?v=SAUw9GO6tgE

Jeremy Freitas on cotton farming in the Central Valleyyoutube.com/watch?v=A6V3gQNoJCQ

Stuck Sprayer youtube.com/watch?v=0I3HanCPMXg Steve Chapman youtube.com/watch?v=CB87eeEXHD8

Blogging

farmertimes.blogspot.com/

Ag Talk

newagtalk.com

Ag Talk Replies newagtalk.com

Ag Forums & Social SitesAg Talk www.newagtalk.comCombine Forum combineforums.proboards.com/Agriculture.com community.agriculture.com/

and agriculture.com/promotion/farmers-future_536-pr6885

HayTalk: haytalk.com/ Ag Loop: agloop.com/Tractor Focus: tractorfocus.com/content/

Listen

     

What is being said on the web www.google.com/alerts

Know what is being said on Twitter search.twitter.com

Twitter stats

Be Real

Staying current & learning of agricultural practices & community, cultural, & political issues

Share information and ideas and learn from other farmers

ReferencesBrogan, Chris, Audience or Community chrisbrogan.com/audience-or-community/ Hunt, Tara, The Whuffie Factor Kleinschmidt, Andy, Agriculture in Van Wert County, Ohio   agvanwert.wordpress.com/ Scott, David Meerman, The New Rules of Marketing and PR   The Social Network Roadmapglobalhumancapital.org/?p=675  

Why Are Marketers So Bad At Measuring Social Media?blogs.forrester.com/marketing/2009/11/why-are-marketers-so-bad-at-measuring-social-media.html?cm_mmc=Ask-_-twitter-_-twitter-_-8275664

ResourcesBeginners Guide for Social Media collaborate.extension.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_to_Social_Media_in_Extension Social Media Playbook: 2009 Eloqua Corporationhttp://www.slideshare.net/Eloqua/eloqua-social-mediaplaybookpublic-4525846

Ohio Farm Bureau Social Media Guideofbf.org/uploads/social-media-guide.pdf

 Social Media Tips and Ideas: Put together for presentation for Extension County Directors urbangarden.posterous.com/social-media-tips-and-ideas

  

Resources

Monsanto bloggershttp://blog.monsantoblog.com/about-the-bloggers/

Common Craft Twitter in Plain Englishhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o Common Craft Blogs in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI Common Craft Google Reader in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y

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Potential of Social Media in Agriculture by Anne Mims Adrian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at www.slideshare.net/aafromaa .

Portions of this presentation were taken from Ag Social Networking by Elaine Edwards is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at www.slideshare.net/elainecarol .

Anne Mims Adrian, PhDaadrian@auburn.edublog.anneadrian.comtwitter.com/aafromaa

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Photo creditsCotton: http://www.flickr.com/photos/houseofsims/1433238935/Social media tools: Smart phone: flickr.com/photos/liewcf/3547134847/ Landscape: Photo by Dan Donnert, Kansas State University, Copyright Kansas

State University, Aug. 10, 2010 Man & woman with smartphones: flickr.com/photos/yourdon/4049950966/Two men talking: Photo by Dan Donnert, Kansas State University, copyright

Kansas State University, Aug 10, 2010.Participation crowd: flickr.com/photos/davidkohlmeyer/3393520471/Ferris Wheel: Photo by Dan Donnert, Kansas State University, copyright

Kansas State UniversityNewspaper: flickr.com/photos/mfobrien/3382977725Irrigation: flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/20798810/in/set-766962

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