Participants

All Members List (present or not present)	Members Present	Non-Members Present
Natasha Lilly* (The Equity) J. Nolfo* (BASF) Kristin Nottingham* (SSI) Susan Ruland (Unlicensed)* (AgGateway) Jody Costa (Unlicensed)* (Barcoding, Inc.) Shannon Haringx (Unlicensed)* (Syngenta) Eileen Licitra (Unlicensed)* (Iteris, Inc.) Sarah Koehn* (CF Industries) Matt Garcia* (Syngenta) Anthony James (Unlicensed)* (Syngenta) Mary Enriquez (Unlicensed)	J. Nolfo Natasha Lilly Anthony James (Unlicensed) Kristin Nottingham Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) Sarah Koehn

(*Voting companies/** alternates)

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Contact:

Committee Chair: J. Nolfo,919-659-3928, james.nolfo@BASF.com
Committee Vice-Chair: open

Agenda/Minutes

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Time

Topic / Leader

Desired Outcome
Pre-Meeting Notes and Links to Supporting Resources

Meeting Minutes

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3 min

Welcome & Roll Call / J. Nolfo

Attendees are listed above.

1

2 min

Antitrust / J. Nolfo

Everybody agreeing to the Antitrust Guidelines.

AgGateway Antritrust Guidelines

All agree to the Antitrust Guidelines.

2

1 min

Minutes Taker / Natasha Lilly

Natasha has agreed to take notes.

3

1 min

Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes / J. Nolfo

First - Kristin Nottingham

Second- Natasha Lilly

Minutes were approved by committee.

Consent Agenda Topics

4

Review Action Items / J. Nolfo

Action Items to be reviewed:

J. Nolfo - Follow up with and schedule time with Anthony and Sarah for social media

Completed on 24 Aug 2017

5

Committee Plan / J. Nolfo

Establish Goals for the new year

Operations
- Get a Vice-Chair
- Fill all Council/Working Group/Committee Liaisons
- Increase membership size of Communications Committee
Social Media
- Increase interaction with social media platforms, especially LinkedIn Group and Twitter
Newsletter
- Leadership Profile in each newsletter
- Each Council have at least two significant update article
- Each Committee have at least 1 significant update article

No Updates

6

Social Media Calendar / J. Nolfo

Listing of who is responsible for what week until next Communication Committee Meeting

Week 9/4: Sarah Koehn
Week of 9/10: J. Nolfo
Week of 9/18 Susan Ruland
Week of 9/25: Jody Costa
Week of 10/2: Kristin Nottingham
Week of 10/9: Anthony James (Unlicensed)

A task was created for J to follow up with Member Services to make sure that the new members are receiving the Social emails.

Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) made the suggestion for the liaisons to ask at their next council and group meetings - possibly following the other members through this channel.

7

Newsletter Planning - October / Kristin Nottingham

AgGateway Newsletter Articles	AgGateway Newsletter Articles Due 15 Sep 2017
Title/Subject	Author
eConnectivity Matters	Wendy Smith (Unlicensed)
New Member Article:	Kristin Nottingham
AgGateway in the News	Kristin Nottingham
Leadership Profile:	J. Nolfo
AIDC Working Group	Jody Costa (Unlicensed)
AGIIS	Chris Crutchfield / Former user (Deleted)
Monthly LinkedIn Group Discussion	J. Nolfo
Annual Conference	Kristin Nottingham
Think Like a Startup - Special Session	Kristin Nottingham & Susan Ruland (Unlicensed)
Quick Connect - Seed Special Session	Susan Ruland (Unlicensed)
ADAPT	Syngenta/Thrive - Shannon? J. Nolfo
OrderCreate Standard	Amanda Flemmer (Unlicensed)

Article Actions:

Remove Ron's Storms

Remove Gateway to Ag Careers

Possible Leadership Profile - Doug Farrington?

Add Quick Connect

Add Think like a Startup

Add ADAPT

Old Business

8

Council & Working Group Updates / J. Nolfo & Liaisons

Each liaison to provide an update of what is happening in their Councils or Committees and to determine if Communications can provide assistance
Councils:

Seed Council: Natasha Lilly
Ag Retail Council: Natasha Lilly
Crop Nutrition Council: Sarah Koehn
Specialty Chemical Council: J. Nolfo
Crop Protection Council: Eileen Licitra (Unlicensed)
Precision Ag Council: Shannon Haringx (Unlicensed)
- SPADE Task Force
- SPADE Communications Task Force
Allied Providers Council: Jody Costa (Unlicensed)
Grain & Feed Council: Natasha Lilly

Committees and Working Groups:

Conference Committee: Kristin Nottingham
Membership Committee: OPEN

Seed- Natasha Lilly

Finalizing all action items that need put together for the Seed Quick Connect Session at the Annual Meeting on Nov 7th from 1-5 pm PST

Ag Retail- Natasha Lilly

Ag Retail - finalizing what is on the wiki compared to the actual work that has been done.

Grain & Feed-Natasha Lilly

Crop Nutrition Sarah Koehn

Specialty Chem-J. Nolfo

No Updates. Most recent meeting canceled.

Allied Providers - Jody Costa (Unlicensed)

Crop Protection - Lori Edwards

Precision Ag - Shannon Haringx (Unlicensed)

PAIL is in the process of being submitted to ASABE to institute a new standard for irrigation. Once submitted and approved, there will be a great deal of promotion done, including articles, etc.
Other than PAIL, we have no plans for articles at this time.
There will not be a PAC Communications session at the Annual Meeting. We will just provide an update on progress at the general PAC meeting.
Precision Ag is that we had a great article published in Syngenta’s Thrive Magazine about ADAPT.

http://www.syngenta-us.com/thrive/research/farm-management-data.html

Conference Committee - Kristin Nottingham

Discussion of locations for the Mid-year meeting. Brent Kemp is looking for sponsorship opporunities. Think Like a Startup session was added and Susan Ruland will be making a press releases.

All liaisons to continue to talk with councils and committees about the upcoming meetings that are important to each group.

9

Marketing Plan / Susan Ruland (Unlicensed)

Updates regarding AgGateway Strategic Plan
Updates regarding quarterly focus and press releases

Seed- Quick Connect Session press release has been sent out internally and waiting approval. Susan plans to work with CropLife and other avenues to get the message out.
Annual conference press realease
Think Like a Startup press release
PAIL - should have some news to report soon
Possible - Responsible Ag news also in relation to AGIIS.

Other Items:

A lot of work on Annual Conference, Ron Storms, Annual Report outline (possible to be distributed at annual), also focusing on case studies.

Google Analytics - Where are we on this? Will it be ready for Annual? A new analytics was started over and set up on the new site. Hopefully will have something for the next call.

10

Guidelines development for Social Media Task Force / J. Nolfo

Develop rules guidelines and standards for each primary platform AgGateway uses

Determine interest for newer members joining task force
Establish cadence/frequency in talking online in Various channels

11

Social Media Task Force Charter

At the joint meeting between the Strategic Board & Operational Management Board (OMB) during MYM, a discussion came up about the task forces and working groups that the councils have recently established or will be establishing soon. The question was asked as to where a listing of the task forces or working groups charters could be found on the wiki.
The charter is a document of the task force or working group and a communication tool to (and reviewed by) both the OMB and the Council Leadership Group so that if there are any synergies between councils, both the OMB and the Council Leadership Group would be aware of it.
Due 8/31/17

Charter has been completed
- /wiki/spaces/AG/pages/198738003

Charter was completed by J prior to call.

J describes the purpose and the responsibilities for the Social Media Group.

Motion was made to approve the Overview of the Social Media Working Group Charter.

Sarah Koehn makes a motion to approve.
Kristin Nottingham puts a second to approve.
Motion was approved.

New Business

12

Newsletter Planning - November/ Kristin Nottingham

AgGateway Newsletter Articles	AgGateway Newsletter Articles Due 13 Oct 2017
Title/Subject	Author
New Member Article	Kristin Nottingham
AgGateway in the News	Kristin Nottingham
Leadership Profile:	J. Nolfo
AIDC Working Group	Jody Costa (Unlicensed)
AGIIS	Chris Crutchfield / Former user (Deleted)
Council Updates	Kristin Nottingham
Monthly LinkedIn Group Discussion	J. Nolfo

Article Actions:

No eConnectivity article

Add possible Seed Quick Connect blurb

13

Other Discussion Items / J. Nolfo

For other committee members to address topics not covered above.

Council Liaisons - Listen for any council suggestions for articles or social media updates!
Gateway to Ag Careers - If anyone has any nominations, please feel free to send them to Kristin Nottingham!
Social Media - Discussion was had about why we have not gotten a lot more response to Social Media outlet and sending messages in.

Meeting Wrap Up

14

Next Meeting / J. Nolfo

You can subscribe to the Communications Calendar for Monthly meeting and Social Media schedules
- https://confluence.atlassian.com/teamcal/subscribe-to-team-calendars-from-microsoft-outlook-251005307.html

Next Committee call is October 5th @ 3:00- 4:00 pm EST

15

Adjournment / J. Nolfo

Meeting adjourned at 3:54 pm EST

Active Action Items as of 7/06/2017

Date Assigned	Action Item	Due Date	Comments/Status
07 Sep 2017	J. Nolfo to reach out to member services and make sure that Sarah and James are in the Social@AgGateway.org group.	21 Sep 2017	Email sent to member services on 08 Sep 2017
07 Sep 2017	Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) to reach out to Mari on the current Google Analytics.	05 Oct 2017	Item needs added to next month's agenda.

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Agenda/Minutes

Active Action Items as of 7/06/2017