{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"ZimmCast 759 - AgGateway Mid-Year Mtg. and AI","description":"Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. I\u2019m Chuck Zimmerman. In this episode I\u2019m sharing my preview interview for the AgGateway Mid-Year Meeting with President\/CEO, Brent Kemp. Additionally I\u2019ve got a few comments regarding AI, or Artificial Intelligence, for those of you who haven\u2019t heard of it. But really, AI, is moving fast and besides it is a topic for the AgGateway meeting. I\u2019m slow in producing a ZimmCast episode for several reasons. One is that I haven\u2019t been traveling for work. But additionally, I\u2019ve done a little research about how AI has affected things like agricultural marketing and communications.&amp;nbsp; Additionally, I did a post on AgWired titled \u201cSafeguard the Human Person in Time of AI.\u201d I hope you enjoy it and feel free to comment. I focused on the encyclical letter published by Pope Leo. It\u2019s not just about AI but really is about people. With some AI research, as in ChatGPT, I looked in to the changes in using news releases. This is very important to ZimmComm since we have the oldest completely ag news release service, AgNewsWire. The information I found relates to all industries. Basically, we\u2019re seeing a change in how important news releases are with various other channels to reach customers. One point is the cost to send news releases which can be from $800 to $1,200 or more. Again, with AgNewsWire, we have a very clean list of contacts to send news releases and we still only charge $525. Additionally, we post the release on the AgNewsWire website, onto our AgWired website, social media channels and also our bi-weekly e-newsletters. Our open rate is significant and very high by industries standards. If you have any questions and comments or just want to chat, I\u2019m always open and appreciate it. So, that\u2019s the ZimmCast for now. I hope you enjoy it and thank you for listening. &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"ZimmCast","author_url":"https:\/\/zimmcomm.biz\/podcasts\/zimmcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/41542305\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/41542305"}