FieldJournals

Earlier this week, we wrote a post on how hunting businesses should be using Google Alerts.  In addition to using Google Alerts, hunting businesses should also be using a product called Social Mention.  Social Mention tracks the real-time web for mentions of your brand (ie Twitter, Facebook statuses, FriendFeed, Digg, etc).   Visit their homepage and [...]

We recently came across a poll of how much involvement hunters have with social media.  Are hunters using sites like Twitter and Facebook?  According to the new poll completed by HunterSurvey.com and AnglerSurvey.com, the answer in “No”.  As a hunter and strong social media advocate, I would agree with the poll.  Here are some numbers: [...]

If you are a large hunting organization such as Cabela’s, BassPro, Thompson, Remington, etc, you may want to look at outsourcing your social media efforts.  No offense, but none of you are knocking the ball out of the park with your Twitter updates or your Facebook pages or any other social media activity.  There are [...]

Mashable.com is reporting that Facebook is about to release a new service around location features.  Today, there are many hunters on Facebook.  With the integration of a location based service, I’m sure we’ll be seeing many hunters posting their locations in the fields and woods on Facebook.  Not to mention, we’re beginning to see the trend [...]

Today was my first post over at www.huntingnet.com.  No worries, I will still be maintaining and contributing to FieldJournals.com on a full-time basis.  My first article discussed the impact of social media and the hunting industry.  Other than my family, hunting and social media are my passion. You may see me guest post on other [...]

For all of you outfitters out there, you should be providing your service on a new social media site called Groupon.com.   Launched in November 2008, Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in a variety of cities across the United States.   Can you imagine offering the hunt [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]