This episode includes more general conversation about everyday life topics than about Farm Town. One issue that was discussed it that there is no final decision regarding a Season III of Farm Town Weekly. We will do our best to inform you on next weeks episode or not later than episode 15.
Thanks again to everyone that joined us live – you make our Monday every week. Happy Farming!
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This is the last episode of 2009 and Oh Boy did we have technical issues at TalkShoe. Thanks to all of you that stuck with us and seen the show to the end. I do want to mention that on this episode we welcomed April Hinkle, Bill Hamilton, and Roger Haffner to a chair on our honorary Farm Town Weekly Board of Directors and congratulate them each here once again.
We also talked about the “Farm Town Classifieds – Help Wanted Ad” post that can be made from our website and asked folks to give it a try this week. A brief discussion about the current poll on our website and if there is still a need for a “Fire” button. In addition, an array of Facebook topics was discussed from privacy changes to pending changes to profile layouts. Fan pages versus application profile pages and how to disconnect from a group. In spite of the technical troubles with TalkShoe, it was certainly a great evening thanks to having neighbors on with us to share in the conversation.
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Thanks once again to our loyal friends that came and visited with us in the chat room during the show. We covered a lot of ground from facebook addition and privacy to tree harvesting and site news.
Hope you enjoy this episode and will join us live next Monday.
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It’s been some time since I seen this Farm Town character. I was just doing a little farming with my friend Bill and after replanting my field I started tinkering around moving trees. Out of nowhere pops this dude asking me if I wanted to take a break and send some gifts. This is the same character you find when you click the “?” Help icon in the tool menu on Farm Town.
I had already sent my limit of gifts for the day, so I just told him not right now. I posted earlier about the extra holiday gifts and how you can buy a Small House with Lights for your friends who request one or request one from your friends. That is a great feature I hope they add to other items. Anyway, these were just some additions I noticed early this morning. Just a few minutes ago this guy popped up asking me to send gifts. I don’t know if I need extra reminders about gift giving, particularly when I have already sent my limit. I don’t know how often he will popup or if we can expect more in-game prompting in the coming days, but lets hope they don’t overload us with these because as it is, I can’t keep up with the chore windows I get every few seconds or couple minutes. That is a feature I would like to be able to either turn off or control in some way.
If you have any thoughts or comments, please reply below.
Late additions to the Farm Town Gift page
You have probably noticed the 4 new holiday gift items available to give as gifts to your neighbors. There is the Holiday Pig and Dog and 2 tress with lights which are the Pine and Palm tree.
Something else I noticed this early morning is that when you visit the Christmas tab in the Farm Town Store there is a gift icon beside three of the items. Clicking on that icon highlighted in the illustration below will prompt the “Request as Gift” feature allowing you to post the item to your wall on Facebook as a wish list of sorts.
Notice the Small House with Lights
Do you see what I see? There is a “Small House with Lights” which one can buy for only 30,000 regular Farm Town coins, but it also has the gift box icon allowing you to request it as a gift. I don’t see this house on the regular Farm Town gift page so I wonder if it was an error that they placed it there along with the new items.
I will say, if I notice someone post this house in a Request as Gift post today I will buy it for them because I want to see if this is an error or a sign of things to come as there have been times when I wanted to send Store Items as gifts but that is not a feature I have seen before today.
I think it would be great if we could buy things from the Farm Store for our neighbors and would also like to be able to transfer Farm Cash to them as well. I have had occasion when a neighbor was just a couple farm dollars away from buying an item she wanted and I would have been happy to transfer a couple of mine to her because I didn’t really have enough to buy anything I wanted anyway so why not. Anyway, looks like Slashkey is still tinkering in their holiday workshop.
One more note, please remember to “Become a Fan” of Farm Town Weekly as we are moving from the old fan page to a new one and also, if you have not done so yet, click the Facebook Connect button to create your facebook connected account and allow our application. This will turn on features such as “The Bull Award” discussed on episode 10 and will also allow you to post the comments you make in the “Leave a Reply” comment box below to your wall on Facebook.
Thanks in advance and Happy Farming!
Just for fun, we thought you might enjoy reviewing the chat history from Episode 10. If you have never been to a live recording of Farm Town Weekly, our friends and neighbors can join us while we record at Talkshoe.com. A chat room is available where you can join other Farm Town farmers in a chat while listening to the live audio feed stream over the net. (more…)
Colby, Whats Her Name, Mountain Mamma, and Ms Kelly chat with me about the new Facebook Connect feature on FarmTownWeekly.com, twitter vs. facebook, viruses being shared on facebook, and I share my experience of having to change a flat on Ms Kellys car from the snowy ice covered side of the road. Come visit us next Monday evening at Talkshoe.com and if you listen to this episode, please claim your “Bull Award” which was also talked about on tonight’s show.
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We have talked about those farmers with a need for keeping track of all their farming and app information, generally in the form of an excel spreadsheet. Now I don’t want to mention any names (Mountain Mamma, Bill, Sandi) but we all know who they are right? ^_^ (more…)
Farm Town Weekly welcomes Sandra Lopes as the newest member of our honorary Board of Directors. We talked about changes coming to our website and the new holiday items while Farm Town Farmers enjoyed a chat in the Farmers Community chatroom at talkshoe.com
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It Snowed! That’s right, you can now gift and even buy patches of snow for your Farm Town farm. You can also buy a snow covered tree and lots of Christmas Holiday items. Just check the gift page to see all the new Christmas items that are now available to decorate your farm and send to your friends and neighbors over the weekend.
There are plenty of other winter wonderland and holiday items for sell in the Farm Store for both coin and Farm Cash. A couple interesting items to note is they added an ice skating ring along with the patches of snow, both of which were suggested in the Farm Town Weekly fan page discussion area. Hmmm, maybe they ARE listening to us afterall.
Happy Farming and be sure and join us Monday to share the fun you have over the weekend with your new seasonal items and Christmas decor.