Replies to our last post on AgWeb have inspired us to talk more about the use of social networking in the agriculture world. We're interested in finding out how your company utilizes social media in order to stay connected with clients!

Last month's issue of Fast Company Magazine listed this astounding factoid about Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites out there. At the time the issue was run, facebook had 67 million users, "And at its current 3% weekly expansion rate, it will have 200 million users by the end of the year, equal to the population of the fifth largest nation on earth." Anyone else have a company that is growing at 3% per week?

At Aggie-Lance, we've found that facebook has at least one utility that is proving very helpful. You can now create a facebook page to promote you group or business. Click here to see ours. Basically, you create a page containing any information you want people to know about your company or group. Then, you invite your facebook friends to check it out, and hopefully become fans. If they like it, they can in turn invite their friends to become fans, and so on.

So we pose the question, what are you doing to take advantage of social media in your ag business? The possibilities are endless. Feel free to shoot back some replies and let us know what you're doing. Have you found other sites that are proving useful?

John Blue from Truffle Media mentioned they are using Twitter to promote their pod casts such as SwineCast (www.swinecast.com). Aggie-Lance has also been using Twitter to promote new projects that get listed, and it is #2 on our list of referring sites (sites that direct traffic to your website).

We look forward to hearing from you!

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