Agriculture Blogging Analysis

For my AGED 4143 Electronic Communications class, I was instructed to take a look at two blogs that within my expertise to analyze. I chose Carrie Mess, a dairy farmer from Wisconsin known as "Dairy Carrie" and Michele Payne, an expert in connecting the farmer and consumer.

Blog Effectiveness

I think both Dairy Carrie and Michele Payn both are effective in reaching their target audience in their blog posts. They get their thoughts across in a clear and concise manner while utilizing quality graphics and content.

Design/Aesthetics

Dairy Carrie does an outstanding job on the design and accessibility of her blog. It is easy to navigate and find what type of blog post you are looking for.

Michelle Payn’s blog is an extension of her Cause Matters campaign website, so she is limited to having all tabs on her page look uniform.

Contents

Both blogs contain factual agriculture information in an entertaining way. All of the posts are in proper format. It is not written in a research paper or journalistic style. Blog writing can be hard to keep your audience engaged and to continue reading, but Dairy Carrie and Michelle Payn both write in a storytelling style.

I highly encourage you to take a look at these two blogs and maybe learn something! I thoroughly enjoyed getting to read about these women's passion for agriculture and their daily lives. It gave me new ideas on what topics I want to write about. Cleary Carol is definitely expanding soon!