News - Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement

CREE Launches New Website

The Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement (CREE) is thrilled to announce the launch of its new website redesign. CREE has updated both the look and feel of its website, including updating the center’s logo, color palette, and style to better serve its audiences. The website redesign features a...

New Year: New Ways to Learn with CREE

Happy New Year (and decade), everyone! If you’ve been following along with the CREE blog since back in the day, this isn’t our first introduction. I’m Anissa, and I previously worked for CREE as the marketing communications intern during my undergraduate studies. As an intern, I wrote many blogs...

CREE Second Quarter Analytics

In order to continue our goal of transparency, CREE has decided to post the insights from our own analytics taken from our Facebook page. This post will cover the second quarter of 2019 (April-June). Overview CREE posts on Facebook on Mondays and Fridays. Occasionally, Wednesdays are added to our...

Top 5 Fall Festivals in Kansas

By Chelsie Calliham Falling leaves, sweater weather and pumpkin spice everything are a few things that come to mind when thinking of fall. But in Kansas, we have much more going on than the basics, starting with our fall festivals. Fall festivals are a perfect way to support local, agricultural...

Greenhouses Getting Connected

Tucked between the rolling Virginia hills, Glenhaven Greenhouses offers customers quality plants and mulch and a place to come enjoy the friendly atmosphere of the small, family-owned greenhouse.

Growing with Eagerness and Excitement

The Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement is thrilled to welcome Deanna Reid, agricultural education and communications graduate student.

CREE Welcomes Royalty to Staff

By Chelsie Calliham Agricultural communicator. Miss Rodeo Kansas. K-State alumna. Mikhayla DeMott, the newly hired audience engagement specialist, serves many roles. Mikhayla understands the need to connect agricultural based, rural businesses to information and research on new-media technology....

Marketing Your Garden Center Online: Who Has Time for it All?

By Dr. Cheryl Boyer Talk about “overwhelm.” The world of websites, online marketing, digital “that” and social media “this” is a lot to take in for the average nursery or garden center operator. How do they cope? The truth is, most of them don’t. Many don’t have a website; others don’t keep theirs...

Going International

Managing director Scott Stebner presents original research about garden centers and their use of social media marketing to the 2015 Marketing Edge Research Summit. Direct marketing researchers from across the globe presented their findings on October 3rd at the annual event held in Boston, MA....

Scott teaches to a packed house in South Carolina

Scott Stebner spoke to a standing-room only crowd at the 2015 Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture held in Charleston, South Carolina. The topic for this seminar focused on using YouTube analytics and viewer data to create better educational and promotional videos. The big...

Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement Hires Graduate of Master’s Program

Story by Cassie Wandersee The recently established Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement at Kansas State University hired a recent graduate of the master’s program in the position of managing director. Scott Stebner completed a master’s degree in agricultural communications from Kansas...