Category: social media
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Dairy Farmers on Instagram in 2019
Here’s my list of dairy farmers using Instagram to post pictures and video to engage with consumers. It’s not complete and if you want your farm Instagram profile on the list, just send me an email at don.schindler@dairy.org or leave a comment at the bottom of the list. a_farm_wife_life alexandrefamilyfarm allysonmaryjune amandajocarey animals_of_ocooch appel_dairy arethusa_farm…
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How to use Instagram Stories For Your Farm or Business
Wait, Don, what’s Instagram? Go here to find out at Instagram for your farm. Then come back to this story. Instagram Stories is simply just a way to add multiple photos/videos together to make a story. But here are three reasons I think you should be using it along with a quick tutorial. 1. It’s…
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How to host a virtual farm tour on your website or Facebook Page
As many of you know, most people have never visited a dairy farm, walked through a barn or met someone that works in agriculture. Right now their only experience with farming is from what they’ve seen on TV or on the Internet. Even school farm tours are declining as schools have to do cut backs…
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Can your online presence feed future generations?
What? Are you crazy? You can’t feed people with digital bits. You need real food like what the farmers I work with produce. Yes, you are right in the literal sense. But what I’m talking about is how you will feed the right information to the generation you are raising but then generations beyond them.…
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How to stop the trolls – dealing with negative comments on the internet index
Recently I’ve noticed that extremists have kicked up their online bashing and trolling of some farmer pages. I really hate that – it’s a crappy tactic. But it does really show how the extremists are not interested in people having a choice, they are interested in people subscribing to only their choice. It makes them…