Grasping The Obvious In Using Social Media

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El Paso, Texas, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) December 26, 2011 -- Sometimes the obvious is hard to grasp. Advocates for agriculture have been utilizing Twitter since it began. Organizations such as the AgChat Foundation, Holistic Management International and the NCBA have made good use of the Twitter format, in announcing blogs and news. However the most obvious way of reaching the average consumer has been largely overlooked.

Cowboy and low stress cattle handling and horsemanship expert Bob Kinford has been often stuck at the trending subjects on Twitter. Then the obvious became clear. Advocates for agriculture need to tie in their tweets to trending topics to draw consumers to agricultural topics and blogs.
For instance, on recently trending topic was “Band of Brothers.” Kinford tweeted "Band of Brothers" makes me think of #ranchers & #cowboys living the #ranchlife to provide #beef for #dinner which put agriculture into a trending topic timeline. Another tie in he did was for the Common Sense Agriculture blog which tied in memories and food. The trend subject was:

#IcantGoADayWithout. His tie in tweet was #ICantGoADayWithout eating Favorite food memories http://commonsenseagriculture.com/ #ICantGoADayWithout using something produced by #farmers or #ranchers

By grasping this concept everyone advocating agriculture on twitter can have agriculture included in twitter trends everyday. While it may seem obvious, this is the goal of using social media...reaching the maximum number of consumers with the least amount of effort.

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