Concerned with sharing agriculture's story through social media? The AgChat Foundation has developed a conference for to grow farmers' skillsets with Facebook, Twittter, blogs and YouTube. If you're already using one of these tools or have been trained in agricultural advocacy, you are invited to the first conference focused on social media use for farmers.

The Agvocacy 2.0. Training Conference will include large and small group learning to help establish the confidence you need to "agvocate" through social media. There will be time for one-on-one chats with agriculture's best and brightest in social media, as well as networking with other participants.

- Bridging Basic Communications with Social Media: Grow your communications skills & understanding of consumer research.
- Building Message House Diagram: Learn to logically build messages and supporting talking points.
- Twitter Community Building: Find tools, hashtags, strategy to maximize impact of ag voice on Twitter.
- Facebook Profiles/Fan Pages/Groups: Maximize farmer understanding of Facebook as a tool to put a face on the plate.
- Extending beyond ag: Find personal interests, data, lists & best practices to reach beyond traditional ag circles.
- Burning questions: Personalize your learning by getting the info you need.
- Creating Impactful Video: Grow in-depth understanding of tools to create, upload and share videos to agvocate.
- Building an Effective Blog: Help farmers understand how build, share and monitor an effective blog while finding personal style.
- Real World Show & Tell: Learn from case studies of SM use to take farm to others.
- Road map for your action plan to agvocate

Apply now to reserve your seat at the August 30-31 workshop. Up to 50 people representing all walks of agriculture will be accepted. Selected attendees will be required to pay $350 registration fee, which we encourage you to seek sponsorship for. Some scholarships are available for farmers.

Please e-mail training@agchat.org with questions. All applications due July 1. Get yours in today to be a part of this FIRST agvocacy conference - press the next button to answer a few brief questions!