Mark your calendars!  The 9th Annual NAMA Boot Camp dates are August 21st – 23rd at the Sheraton Crown Center in Kansas City.  Whether you’ve just entered the working world or been through the NAMA Boot Camp drill before, learn more about the latest trends in the agri-marketing industry. 

This year the Boot Camp will take it to a new level expanding on marketing and agriculture basics.   All attendees will receive a notebook packed with agricultural terminology, facts, case studies and speaker presentations. This notebook has become one of the most popular aspects of the boot camp experience.

More details to follow.  Sponsorship packages are available, if interested contact Jenny Pickett at 913-491-6500 or [email protected].

 NAMA will be sponsoring a drink station at the Welcome Party at Ag Media Summit.  Mark your calendars to attend this party on August 5 in Albuquerque.    To register for Ag Media Summit http://www.agmediasummit.com/

Look for information to come about a NAMA event at the Farm Progress Show.

This year it will be easier to enter and judge Best of NAMA.    NAMA is setting up a special web site that will allow members to upload entries including radio, TV, broadcast news, blogs, internet web sites and banners. This same site will allow for streamlined judging at the regional and national levels.  Other categories such as print ads, collateral, etc. will still be entered via hard copy submission. Watch for complete details in the call for entries, which will come out late summer. 

The 2012 deadline for Best of NAMA entries will be October 12 with Regional judging set for November 6-7.

Thanks to Paulsen Marketing for coordinating the new Best of NAMA Entry Site.

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The Iowa NAMA May Meeting was held on the 18^th at the Iowa FFA Enrichment Center.  With a great turnout, the panel of Kristi Moss, Paulsen Marketing; Terry Reilly, Iowa Farmer Today; and Dave Mowitz, Successful Farming, were able to interact with the audience and answer questions concerning digital media, how press releases are received and how media is evolving.

Take homes included:  how people interact can be dictated by cell phone contracts, texting, unlimited data plans being a thing of the past…Press releases are being sent digitally and it’s important to please have all content included when the release is sent.  Don’t forget the contact information,  either.

This is the last meeting of the year for Iowa NAMA and a successful one at that!  We are looking forward to kicking off another successful year in September!

If you were unable to attend the Agri-Marketing Conference, or would like a copy of the presentations,  you can now download the audio of the sessions from the NAMA Store at http://www.nama.org/store/index.php?p=catalog&parent=23&pg=1.  Watch the video of the Opening Session and the student marketing competition top 6 finalists on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ExploreNAMA.

National NAMA is excited to announce their newest employee, Janae Prewitt. She comes from a background in marketing and human resources with her most recent employers being Applebee’s and Saladino Mechanical. Her new role is the Information Services Coordinator and we are delighted to have her join the NAMA team.