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) Mary Enriquez (Unlicensed)	J. Nolfo Natasha Lilly Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) Kristin Nottingham Eileen Licitra (Unlicensed)	Amanda Flemmer (Unlicensed)

(*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

0

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 / J. Nolfo

Natasha Lilly

3

1 min

Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes / J. Nolfo

First - Natasha Lilly

Second- Amanda Flemmer (Unlicensed)

Consent Agenda Topics

4

Review Action Items / J. Nolfo

Action Items to be reviewed:

J. Nolfo to turn in the meeting descriptions for the Mid-Year
J. Nolfo reach out to Jody - to see if we can produce some analytics at the Mid-Year
All Social Media Task Force members to add Social Media into their calendars.

J. Nolfo removed Shane Snyder the Allied Providers and Membership
J. Nolfo removed Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) and replace with Shannon Haringx (Unlicensed) on the Precision Ag Council
J. Nolfo to double check the attendees from member services.

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

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)
Allied Providers Council: Jody Costa (Unlicensed)
Grain & Feed Council: Natasha Lilly

Committees and Working Groups:

Conference Committee: Kristin Nottingham
Membership Committee: OPEN
SPADE Task Force:OPEN
SPADE Communications Task Force: OPEN

Seed- Natasha Lilly

Value Calculator finalization

Ag Retail- Natasha Lilly

Power in the Connectivity Seminar
Ideas about ways to spread this type of word further
- Slot has been given to us at the ARA this November

Grain & Feed- Natasha Lilly

No Updates

Crop Nutrition Sarah Koehn

No Updates

Specialty Chem- J. Nolfo

Primary focus for the second half of the year is to implement reporting structure standard between members of the Specialty Chem industry. Council recognized some changes needed to be made before full implementation and the task force lead will be making these changes and working with Standards & Guidelines and Ag Retail for their thoughts.
Other area of focus for the remainder of the year is recruitment, especially by the channel partners. J. Nolfo volunteered to lead this task force are will be working with one Allied Provider and one or two channel partners to develop plan of attack to recruit members.

Allied Providers - Jody Costa (Unlicensed)

- No Updates

Crop Protection - Lori Edwards

No Updates

Precision Ag - Shannon Haringx (Unlicensed)

Working through InfoAg preparation to promote ADAPT
Writing several papers for ASABE – slow progress, significant amount of work
Established process for speaking engagement awareness

Conference Committee - Kristin Nottingham

No Updates

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

7

Marketing Plan / Susan Ruland (Unlicensed)

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

8

Social Media Calendar / J. Nolfo

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

Week of 7/3: J. Nolfo
Week of 7/10: Kristin Nottingham
Week of 7/17: Jody Costa
Week of 7/24: Anthony James (Unlicensed)
Week of 7/31: Susan Ruland

Natasha Lilly has expressed interest of coming off the Task Force and be replaced by Anthony James (Unlicensed).
Anthony James (Unlicensed) will also do exclusive tweeting/messaging for both the Mid-year and Annual meetings.
Will add in Sarah Koehn to the Social Task Force weeks.
Need to rework the schedule and then update the group.
Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) - suggest a 'How To' on the Social Task Force

9

Newsletter Planning - August / Kristin Nottingham

AgGateway Newsletter Articles	AgGateway Newsletter Articles Due 14 Jul 2017
Title/Subject	Author
Leadership Profile:	J. Nolfo
New Member Article	Kristin Nottingham
AgGateway In The News	Kristin Nottingham
AIDC Working Group	Jody Costa (Unlicensed)
AGIIS	Chris Crutchfield / Former user (Deleted)
AgGateway Resources and Testimonial Video	Susan Ruland (Unlicensed)
eConnectivity Matters	Wendy Smith (Unlicensed)
Order Create Standard	Amanda Flemmer
AgGateway to Careers	Kristin Nottingham
Crop Nutrition Update	Amanda Flemmer
Monthly LinkedIn Group Discussion	J. Nolfo
Info Ag	Susan Ruland
Ron Storms	Susan Ruland

New Article Ideas:

Info Ag - Precision Ag Article out - Susan

New Authors:

Kristin Nottingham will replace Natasha Lilly on the New Member Article

Old Business

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

New Business

11

Newsletter Planning - September / Kristin Nottingham

AgGateway Newsletter Articles	AgGateway Newsletter Articles Due 11 Aug 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)
Council Updates	Kristin Nottingham
Crop Nutrition Update	Sarah Koehn or Shannon Haringx (Unlicensed) or Amanda Flemmer (Unlicensed)
Monthly LinkedIn Group Discussion	J. Nolfo
Telematix	Ben Craker (Unlicensed)

New Article Ideas:

Telematix????? article Ben Craker
Simplot - Crop Nutrition

12

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

J. Nolfo - updates the group that we may need to make a Charter for the Social Media Task Force

Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) - not sure that we need a charter because the Social Media Task Force is ongoing without a definable end

13

Other Discussion Items / J. Nolfo

For other committee members to address topics not covered above.

Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) - ARA will allow us a slot at the ARA this coming year

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 August 3rd @ 3:00- 4:00 pm EST

15

Adjournment / J. Nolfo

Meeting adjourned at 3:50 pm EST

Active Action Items as of 7/06/2017

Date Assigned	Action Item	Due Date	Comments/Status
13 Jun 2017	Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) - to reach back out to Wendy Smith (Unlicensed) and continue discussion on what an Annual Report looks like.	05 Jul 2017
13 Jun 2017	Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) - update the archive on the Newsroom page	23 Jun 2017
13 Jun 2017	Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) - Work with website team to turn on Google Analytics	30 Jun 2017
06 Jul 2017	J. Nolfo - Reach out to Member Services to update the CC distribution list	31 Jul 2017	Add in Mary Enriquez (Unlicensed) and Anthony James (Unlicensed)
06 Jul 2017	J. Nolfo - Reach out to Anthony James (Unlicensed) to inform him ' How To' Social media and give awareness on his week. His first week is July 24th	14 Jul 2017	Give credentials and short how to
06 Jul 2017	J. Nolfo - put together a best practices list for the group on Social media	31 Jul 2017
06 Jul 2017	J. Nolfo - redo the social task force task schedule - update the group	31 Jul 2017	Include Sarah Koehn
06 Jul 2017	Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) - Follow up with Marilyn Hunter (Unlicensed) if we need an actual charter for our Social Media Task Force	31 Jul 2017
06 Jul 2017	Kristin Nottingham - Reach out to Ben Craker (Unlicensed) with interest to produce an article about Telematix	21 Jul 2017
06 Jul 2017	Natasha Lilly to send Kristin info on New Member Article	07 Jul 2017

2017-07-06 Communications Committee Meeting

Participants

Agenda/Minutes

Active Action Items as of 7/06/2017