Check one off the Bucket List
Ag News for America: 9 years and 26,000 pages
In June we did a complete make-over of the Brownfield Ag News website. After nine years, it was time for a fresh look and web tools have come a long way in that time. Once we started packing up boxes and loading the moving truck, we discovered we had more 26,000 pages of news stories, columns, feature programs and audio. That is lot of ag news, America. We think we have all the broken links fixed but if you can’t find something, please let... [Read More...]
Learfield of Dreams
As with any good sales and marketing company, our sellers are very competitive and look forward to our annual sales contest. We kicked off our new sales year on July 1st with the Learfield of Dreams. Here’s the status board we use to keep track of our progress. Vice President of Sales and Marketing Joyce Steinman has been coming up clever ideas like this for…. well, for a long time. Play ball! Read More →
Children’s Trust Fund of Missouri
Parent with Patience – Cereal Produced by John Sims Read More →
Twitter suspensions
If you’ve been keeping up with the buzz and explosive growth of the social networking site, Twitter, you can imagine the challenges that come with such popularity. We got a taste of it today with two of our accounts –@Missourinet and @Brownfield– were briefly suspended. They were back up quickly and the Twitter support folks said it was probably a “glitch.” What a wonderful, all-purpose word that is. Read More →
Learfield Twitterers
If you’ve gotten the Twitter bug, you might want to check out some of the Twits (Twitterers?) here at Learfield. They’re not all in the news division but they’re all part of the family. @Missourinet @RadioIowa @Brownfield @scrnnews @nebraskanews @missourisports @sportstalksc @learfieldsports – VP of Sports Ops and Affiliate Relations, Aaron Worsham @learfieldnews – Director of News Operations, Scott Brandon @clydelear... [Read More...]
Whatever happened to Brownfield reporter Pete Shinn?
Brownfield’s former Omaha-based team member, Pete Shinn, has been busy since he left agricultural communications. Pete has served as Faculty Advisor for the Academy of Military Science at McGhee Tyson ANGB near Knoxville, Tennessee for the past 11 months. This video captures the essence of what our friend is up to these days. Whether you remember his work as an ag journalist or not, this is well worth watching! Read More →
Welcome to the Learfield News blog
Blogs have become an important part of most of our network websites. They’re a great way to let you know about stuff besides the news and sports we cover. But we’ve never had one just for the Learfield News division. Until now. We’re still putting the finishing touches on the website and as soon as that’s complete, we’ll give more attention to the blog. Read More →
