Communications Corner | August Recap

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

August 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.

INTSOY course participants watching a lab demonstration from Linda Funk, Executive Director of the Soyfoods Coucil.

Courses

Baking with Soy course participants during their lab demonstrations.

NCI and our communications team were busy this month with hosting courses! The first course that was held was our INTSOY course. Participants spent time traveling to various tours throughout Minnesota and North Dakota, as well as learning about soy foods, soy protein, and more through hands-on lab demonstrations. Several participants continued their stay in Fargo, ND and attended our Baking with Soy course the following week. This course provided more hands-on demonstrations as participants were able to spend the majority of their time in our bake labs making various goods with soy products. Finally, NCI held a Soy Food mini course with a few participants where they learned about various soy products and foods sold in this region and the United States.

& More!

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.

Our team is busy preparing for our upcoming conference, The Next 5 Years Executive Conference, held on September 12th, in Moorhead, MN. We are in charge of all things on the production side, as well as creating all the marketing materials such as banners, name tags, signs, and more! More information about the conference can be found at next5years.com. 

Read the latest NCI Video Production blog post to get more details about what videos we are working on and what’s coming up. Video production has become a huge part of what our communications team works on, so check out our blog to learn more! We are currently working on a video project that will showcase a variety of crops from planting to harvest, so stay tuned for updates!

By the Numbers

This last month, our communications team:

  • Created 10 videos

  • Helped promote, run, & recap 5 different webinars

  • Wrote 8 blog posts

  • Assisted with 3 in-person courses

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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