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PadPressed allows publishers to take their content and make it beautifully formatted for the iPad without the need to go through the app store. Right now PadPressed functions as a WordPress plugin that works with your existing theme to deliver the best browsing experience possible for your readers when accessed from an iPad. PadPressed notices [...]

Field & Stream has nailed the use of social media with their Rut Report.  Field & Stream has created a heat map based on user feedback about the deer rut, obtained through their Facebook page, with 13,000+ participants.  To date, this is the best use of social media we have witnessed from any hunting business!  Simply [...]

Working as the Director or Manager of Social Media is not your typical job.  Being the Director of Social Media means working every hour of the day, 365 days a year.  Now you don’t have to be in the office all of this time, but you must be prepared for “chatter” from all angles.  You [...]

A majority of the hunting economy is powered by small businesses.  These small businesses have limited budgets for marketing their products.  Social media is a great alternative to marketing your business or product.  Here’s a great presentation on how small businesses utilize social media to help their business grow.  A lot of the techniques used [...]

For all of you hunters and other outdoors enthusiasts out there on Twitter, you will now have a new look and feel and added functionality in the very near future.  The new release is way overdue and is a huge step up in my opinion.  The biggest feature being added is the integration with other multimedia [...]

There is no perfect hunting organization out there today; at least in my opinion.  I would like to change that with your help.  I’m looking to create a hunting organization that provides exclusive benefits to its members.  Here is a list of what I was thinking as far as exclusive benefits: member discounts to stores [...]

Social media is a hot topic amongst the outdoors blogosphere. Are you or your business investing time in social media? Share

Over the course of the last few years, we have seen hunting social networks pop almost every day.  Each network consisted of the same features and functionality.  In the early days of hunting social networks, forums and chat rooms dominated the web sphere.  Then we moved into whitelabel social networks like Ning and KickApps.  Everyone [...]

One thing that drives me insane is reading a great hunting or outdoors article and not have the ability to provide my 2 cents (ie www.huntingnet.com).  Now every site, static or CMS, has the ability to add realtime comments to their web pages with a snipit of code from Echo. Echo is the way to [...]

All outdoors businesses and services need a social media strategy.  What’s yours?  What’s that, you don’t have one yet?  Well there is now a website that can help your with your strategy.  The website is free and is easy to navigate.  The site offers many options to configure and personalize your business social media strategy.  [...]