Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest OH MY!!!

Instagram, YouTube & Vine Too!

Anjanette Shadley Martin

#ACFR14 Portland, OR January 31, 2014

Twitter: A real-time update site that allows users to share and receive 140 characters of information in “tweets.” This platform is a good way to reach new networks by using “hashtags” which are keywords.

mtstockgrowersblog.com@AgProudRyan

@AgChat

@ASMybe

Facebook is the world’s most popular social networking site, allowing you to connect with family and friends. The user-friendly tools allow for you to share status updates, photos and videos with a few clicks. mtstockgrowersblog.com

Ryan Goodman

AgChat Foundation Jenny Dewey Rohrich

Pinterest is organizational site that allows users to categorize their visuals and links in folders or “boards.” With all the great imagery on ranches, this site is a good way to show ranch life to those in your networks. mtstockgrowersblog.com

AgChat Alec Winmill & Tim Zweber

Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.

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Monsantoco Thefarmerslife

MegRaeb

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three

former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload,

view and share videos. Wikiepedia.com

WCWDwebcam

Lundberg Family Farms

Vine is a mobile app owned by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short video clips. The service was introduced with a maximum clip length of six seconds and can be shared or embedded on social networking services such as Twitter (which acquired the app in October 2012) and Facebook.

Western Canal WD Lundberg Family Farms

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Final Thoughts:

Any Social Media is better than NO Social Media

Figure out your target audience• Everyone in my town uses Facebook

• I have a YouTube Channel and want to let people know when there is something new : Use Twitter

• I have a beautiful farm or ranch and want to share with the broadest possible audience to share my business : Use Twitter, Vine,

Instagram and Pinterest

Don’t be scared, experimentFind someone you admire and follow them

Jenny Dewey Rohrich, Megan Brown, AgProud Ryan aka Ryan Goodman

Tim Zweber / Zweber Farms, Janice Person aka JPlovesCOTTON

AND of course AgChat and AgChatFoundation!!