FieldJournals

If you’re looking to launch your own hunting magazine but don’t have the funds for production and delivery, you should check out DMT (Digital Magazine Technology).  One hunting magazine that uses this technology is IS Outdoors.  They do a great job with their articles and have tons of advertisers. 

Here’s a little more from DMT.  

DMT technology was created to give readers the ability to experience an online, easy to read, interactive version of today’s top publications. Readers can flip pages, follow links, review featured content, visit advertiser’s websites or even listen to audio or play video clips.

Publications online can reach readers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from all over the world, which can turn an online publication into a powerful revenue stream. Featured contents, links to products or advertisers’ sites, audio, video clips and special bookmaking can all be sold to an existing customer base as enhancements to a standard print publication. It’s never been easier to reach the millions of people who use the Internet daily for information, resources, news, and so much more!

Yesterday Meebo launched a set of nifty tools to website and blog owners.  The toolbar allows users to share content across different social media sites, chat with other visitors, and a custom analytics dashboard.

If you host your own website or have a blog on Blogger.com, TypePad, Movable Type, or self-hosted hosted Wordpress blogs, you should be good to go. Unfortunately, blogs hosted at Wordpress.com are not supported at the moment.

• Real-time sharing. Your users can easily share your website with their friends through IM, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and email. The Meebo Bar engages your existing users and brings in new users.
• Custom buttons for your bar. Choose from a host of buttons to add to your bar. Right now we have buttons for Facebook Fan pages, Twitter, RSS, Youtube, Flickr, and a bunch more. If you don’t see a button you want, just let us know.
• Personal stats dashboard. See statistics about pageviews, sharing from your site, and which of your Meebo Bar buttons are being clicked, all from your own secure site. You can even give other users their own personal login to access the dashboard.
• Instant messaging from your site. Meebo knows web-based IM better than anyone, and your site visitors will be able to chat and share with their IM friends from AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Facebook, and a ton of other networks.

For those of you that don’t know, Google is about to revolutionize the way we collaborate with co-workers, friends, and family.  Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

There are very limited amount of invites that are being issued by Google.  I was lucky enough to receive my invite in the mail yesterday and will be awarding two invites to two lucky people.  The first will be a random drawing from the people that follow me on Twitter.  I will draw 1 lucky winner from my followers.  If you don’t already follow me on Twitter, you can follow me @FieldTweets.

For the second drawing, you must comment on this post with “Why you deserve a Google Wave invite?”  I will go through all comments and select the best response, be creative as possible.  The drawing will be in a few days.

Embedding a document into your website or blog is very easy.  Two services that allow you to embed a doc into your site are DocStoc.com and Scribd.com.  Both services are free.  After you signup for a free account, you can upload a file to the site.  You can simply copy and paste generated code (ie YouTube) and embed the code directly into your site.

Some of the advantages of embedding documents onto your site include additional SEO support, professional formatting of documents are your site, sharing documents across the web, downloading the document from your site, and marketing promotional material like an outfitter’s flyer, etc.  Here’s an example of an embedded document on my blog.

Hunting –

DeerHuntersClub.com is your home for information and discussion about one of the oldest and greatest outdoor sports of all time: deer hunting.

It is absolutely free to join our community, so please take a moment and register today! Registration will allow you to post in our deer hunting forums, upload your deer hunting pictures to our gallery, and be eligible for special contests and prize drawings.

BGH began as a small simple site to promote big game hunting in northwest Colorado. The site is owned and operated by RiderWeb, Inc. BGH has our own personal input; from recipes to many of the photos on these pages, they are a compilation of our experiences and observations from living in this beautiful remote corner of Colorado.

However we quickly discovered that the demand was much broader, and due to the wonderful support and feedback we’ve received, the site has now grown to include hunting information for all geographic areas. Please join us by contributing your own experiences, photos, recipes and input. We look forward to this new growth and expansion of BGH.

Use BGH to find information for anything big game hunting related, from hunting stories, to guides and outfitters. And don’t forget to check out all the latest news & information in the BGH hunting section that is categorized by state, country, animal species and topics. Share your questions and thoughts at the hunting forum.

Gamebird hunts is the web’s premiere source of pheasant hunting location information and sporting clay course listings. All of the listings in our pheasant hunting directory contain not only information about each preserve, but an area map helping you the upland hunter quickly locate hunting outfitters and preserves in your area. Whether you prefer to hunt ring neck roosters, quail, chuckar or partridge, GameBirdHunts has a location that is just right for you and your party.

Sharing photos of your trophy buck on Twitter is easy and will not take you much time.  Two services that we really like to use is Twitpic.com and Tweetphoto.com.  Both services are free and only require you have a previously created Twitter profile.

You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, their API, or through the site itself.  There are also popular twitter clients that have built-in support for TwitPic.  Twitpic could be used independently of Twitter, in a way similar to Flickr. However several characteristics make this site a companion for Twitter. Twitpic usernames and passwords are the same as the ones in Twitter. Comments to photographs are sent as a reply tweet. Twitpic URLs are already short, making it unnecessary to use URL shortening. Anyone with a Twitter account can post pictures to the site. This has the disadvantage of anyone being able to post pornographic, obscene or objectionable material. Although the site administrator attempts to keep the site family friendly by removing such pictures, the sheer number of uses makes this very difficult.

TweetPhoto is a photo sharing platform for the real-time web. This free service allows you to share photos on Twitter, Facebook and through your favorite desktop and mobile clients. The service focuses on creating the best possible user-experience among the applications developed around the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API).

This personalized experience is the evolution and convergence of real-time mobile and web-based social photo sharing. It allows Twitter users to quickly and easily publish and consume photos.

Being a long time fan of the outdoors, I would like to introduce the average/avid outdoorsman to a concept that was born many years ago but only recently brought to light in the world of Hunting and Fishing. This concept is Trade! Throughout the continental U.S. and around the world, we have landowners that host a large variety of game. However, there is not one landowner out there that hosts’ every type of game to be hunted.

WELCOME TO HUNTTRADER℠.com where you can trade out your hunting experiences with different people across the U.S. and around the world for new and exciting adventures that you personally can share with your friends and family. Because you are allowing others to come hunt YOUR land, you make the rules and set the standard for their hunt and experience. You are their guide if you so choose to be and what better person to do it than the one who owns the land. The same goes for your experience on someone else’s land. You will be expected to play by their rules.

This is simply the meeting grounds for outdoorsmen from all walks of life. This website was built for you the member and is completely free of charge. We do not broker hunts or charge for the service of the website because we too, are enthusiastic outdoorsmen that share with you our love of the outdoors. I think that everyone should have the opportunity to experience as many hunting trips and Fishing excursions in a lifetime that they possibly can. However, I realize that not many people have the opportunity to do so due to the fact that it’s just not in the best interest of their budget. I hope and believe that this website is going to give me the chance to do more and see more in the outdoors than I ever thought possible and I hope it’s going to give you that same chance. We operate around the idea that the true hunter and angler wants’ to broaden his/her horizons with new and different exciting hunts and fishing trips.

Real Outdoors TV is the leader in online video targeting the outdoor enthusiast. Hunters, anglers, and other outdoor enthusiasts can easily upload and share video clips through on www.RealOutdoorsTV.com which chronicle their outdoor adventures.

We invite all outdoor enthusiasts to broadcast their personal outdoor adventures, share outrageous events, and teach others through informative videos. Most importantly we want everyone to have fun and enjoy the outdoors.