Journalism training gets underway for #GAJJD13 students

#GAJJD13 course attendees discuss journalism skills

The annual Guild of Agricultural Journalists/John Deere training course is underway.

Attendees have been practising writing and interviewing skills - and a few have already been tweeting about it.

In the remaining sessions we'll do more writing and also look at online content.

If you want to find out what they've been saying, take a look at tweets from Hannah Lloyd, Nick Drew and Miranda Janatka. Or keep an eye on events via the hashtag #GAJJD13.

Looking forward to #GAJJD13 at John Deere UK

I've just returned from doing some work with the PR and internal communications at John Deere in Mannheim, Germany. They gave me this model of one of their products as a gift.

So what's next? A trip to John Deere's UK base in Langar, Nottingham for the annual John Deere Guild of Agricultural Journalists journalism training course.

Agricultural and horticultural students and others from the sector who want to get into journalism or PR will be attending the course from Monday 15th to Wednesday 17th July to learn about basic journalism and PR skills in print and online.

I plan to tweet about it while I'm there in between training delivery sessions. And I'm hoping some of the participants will be posting tweets and update too. Follow us using the hashtag #GAJJD13.