Learfield COO Roger Gardner, in the danger zone
It’s quite a thrill to watch an F-18 do a tailhook landing 15 yards in front of you, and to feel the chest-pounding roar of the same plane taking off into the midnight darkness at the end of the flight deck. But also thrilling was watching as 3,500 souls who work tirelessly aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, then some 75 miles off the coast of North Carolina. I was honored to spend the night on the carrier and meet many of men and women of the Navy serving on ship, including the Commander, Capt. Joe Carkson. Tom Maxwell, himself a retired Navy Captain (and father of our own Mike Maxwell), arranged the trip for me, as he had for Clyde a few years ago.
It was one of those “Bucket List” kinds of experiences. As breath taking was the size of the ship and her impressive technology, was the dedication of the men and women serving on her. It was awe-inspiring and convicting…there is so much I take for granted! Equally humbling is the recognition that all about us there are people, some of them in our own company, diligently serving in one capacity or another, doing the work most of us don’t want to do, doing it honorably and professionally, for the benefit of us all. That also takes my breath away…without the noise.
-- Roger
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 the Brownfield folks know.
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!
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.
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 – Clyde is founder and CEO of Learfield
- @rogergardner – President and Chief Operating Officer
- @jeffdmoore – Sales and Marketing Account Executive
This list is almost certainly not complete since the list is growing. If you’re an advertiser on one of our networks, let us know your Twitter name and we’ll add you to the list.
