Everybody agreeing to the Antitrust Guidelines.

AgGateway Antritrust Guidelines

Action Items to be reviewed

• J. Nolfo to update all Wiki page with new Chair/liaison info.
• J. Nolfo to update all liaisons and Communications Committee members, remove J. Nolfo to update Social Media Task Force members, remove Brandon
• J. Nolfo to look at scheduling emails in advance for next year
• J. Nolfo to reach out to Mary Enriquez regarding interest in Committee
• Susan Ruland to send J. Nolfo questions for Leadership Profiles
• J. Nolfo to reach out to Robert Cafferata regarding potential Task Force Article
• Susan Ruland to let Social Media Task Force know when new website launches
• Susan Ruland to add new eConnectivity flier to Communications Toolbox
• Kristin Nottingham to reach out to Dave Craft regarding ongoing interest in committee
• Kristin Nottingham to contact member services to see who is on social@ and communications@ email list
• Kristin Nottingham to work with member services to remove Brandon from any list.

Wiki was updated. Members that were no longer active were removed. We still need to update the website.

J emailed older members to gauge interest.

Eileen from Iteris will now be an active member.

Outstanding - J to work with scheduling emails.

Mary will be an some of our upcoming calls.

J is getting no response from Robert. May push article until Feb.

Susan to preview website later in the meeting.

Wendy should have the article in time for the Jan-Feb article.

Natasha/New Member - Husch Blackwell

All articles are coming as expected the best we know.

New article for this issue - Leadership Orientation picture and blurb - Susan

Specialty Chem Task force article may be pushed to March article

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

Website

Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) shows a sneak peak of the website. The website is much cleaner and has a nice feel to it. Many pictures throughout all the pages.

• We previewed a few councils. The pages are now updated with new chair information and updated information from the Annual conference.
• Susan showed a new section of the website for New members. We viewed some of the links within for this new section.

Timing to launch will be 1/6/2017. Monday 1/9/2017 would be the first chance to get on as long as the launch goes well.

Plan and Focus items - the plan has been created. Susan presents a summary of the plan to present at the council and strategic board meetings. After review Susan plans to post on the wiki.

• Attract new members is one of the focuses.
• Provide more targeted communications.
• Focus on each sector including trade associations.
• Provide communication to members or potential members for spreading the AgGateway message.
• Website
• Feedback from Councils
• Produce and Annual Report for the Board
• Updated Slide-decks
• Social Media
• Corporate Branding and AgGateway Global Network
• Working with some of those Associations and becoming more active
  
  

• Establish Goals for the new year
  • Operations
    • Get a Vice-Chair
    • Fill all Council/Working Group/Committee Liasions
    • 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

• J plans to focus on Social Media and getting new members involved.
• He plans to find a Vice Chair.
• J would like to have a lot of focus on newsletter articles from Councils and Committees.

• 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: 
• Specialty Chemical Council: J. Nolfo 
• Crop Protection Council: 
• Precision Ag Council: Susan Ruland (Unlicensed)
• Allied Providers Council: Jody Costa (Unlicensed), Shane Snyder
• Grain & Feed Council: Natasha Lilly
• Committees and Working Groups: 
• Conference Committee: Kristin Nottingham
• Membership Committee: Shane Snyder
• SPADE Task Force:
• SPADE Communications Task Force:
  
  

• Natasha updates the committee on Ag Retail. They will now be a new focus for this group. The pain points were renewed from the previous year and we are hoping to see some action in the new year.
• Susan - March issue of the newsletter might have something fro Precision Ag. A press release will be released for Core Documents for Field Operations as well as a press release on the PAIL standard.
• Susan - Commodity Classic is a possible article or press release.
  
• J Nolfo - Specialty Chem has no update.

• Provide an update on Social Media and Google analytics from Q4

• Pushed to next month

• Interested or potential members looking to grow into leadership roles within the Committee
• Look at newer AgGateway people and members interested in getting involved without a significant time commitment

• For other committee members to address topics not covered above.

• No other topics addressed

• 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 Communications Committee meeting on Thursday 2/2/2017 from 3:00 - 4:00 ET/2:00-3:00 CT. Call in information will be provided closer to meeting date.

• Meeting adjourned at 4:03 pm ET

• J. Nolfo to reach out with all the Committee and Council leaders to see interest in Communications Committee.

Email to Committees and Task Force sent on 1/12/17.  Will follow-up on each as needed.

For Councils, Susan Ruland (Unlicensed) and I are going to tag team on these as she is wanting to also let the committees know about her marketing plan.

• J. Nolfoto talk to Member Services to try and get a consistent call in number for our meetings.

Emailed Member services on 1/24/17 to get consistent call-in information.

Now have permanent GoToMeeting and call in information