Communications Corner | July Recap

Welcome to the Communications Corner ㅡ a once a month recap blog post sharing what NCI’s communications team has been up to!

July was another busy month with various events on top of our everyday communication and marketing tasks. Let’s recap this month’s events:

Webinars

Our team helps market, run, and recap NCI’s various webinars hosted several times each month! Learn more about each webinar from this month by reading our blog posts:

Webinars keep our team busy as we prepare them from start to finish each week. Before each webinar, our team creates the graphics, website content, Zoom registration and links for panelists and attendees, registration and reminder emails, social media posts, as well as taking time to do run-throughs with each speaker. During the webinar, at least one person from our team attends as host to ensure everything runs smoothly and records for people to watch after. Once the webinar is finished, we upload each recording and send out emails to those who were not able to attend live, and finish with a blog post. 

& More!

Ancient Grains Conference

Between the busyness of webinars, courses, and traveling…our team has also been hard at work editing videos, writing press releases, blog posts, planning, & more for upcoming events.

Video production has become a huge part of what our communications team works on, so check out our blog post to learn more! They have helped promote our upcoming August courses; INTSOY: Introduction to Soybean Course and DDGS Procurement Course. 

We spent a lot of time in July preparing for the Ancient Grains Conference that was held on July 25. We created ads, social media posts, and materials such as name tags, posters, and conference guides. This conference featured numerous speakers from the industry, time to visit exhibitor booths, as well as hands-on baking, agronomy, and stone mill demonstrations. About 60 people attended our 2nd annual Ancient Grains Conference this year. We’re already prepping for next year’s conference!

Minneapolis Port Tour

NCI held a two-day port tour in Minneapolis, MN on July 12-13. Our team helped promote this event by creating social media posts, designing advertisements, and sending out promotional emails. The tour included exploring grain export facilities, meeting with international trading companies, touring the BNSF Hump Yard, and much more! 

By the Numbers

This last month, our communications team:

  • Created 5 videos

  • Helped promote, run, & recap 4 different webinars

  • Wrote 4 blog posts

  • Promoted 1 course & 1 tour 

  • Hosted 1 conference

That’s all for this month’s recap! Check back in next month to see what else we’ve been up to!

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