FieldJournals

Make no mistake about it, one of the most powerful features of hunting sites are forums.  Hunters love to interact with other hunters.  Hunters also love to brag to other hunters about their trophies.  Forums are a great tool to engage with your audience and to retain visitors on your site.  Forums will hold users [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I recently did a search on the web to try and locate legal places to hunt in the United States.  I struggled to find a good site that provided this information.  I came across a site called www.factual.com and they had a detailed list that provided a ton of valuable information.  Below is a chart [...]

Monitoring your company’s brand on the web today is essential.  Website owners need to be fully aware of all conversations about their brand.  In addition to traditional monitoring on the web, website owners must also monitor the “real-time” web (social network chatter).  To monitor your brand on the web, Google provides the best tool call [...]

        Deer & Deer Hunting Magazine was born in 1977, a by-product of the Stump Sitters Whitetail Study Group. It was founded by Jack Brauer and Al Hofacker, two ultra-serious whitetail hunters from the Upper Midwest. The magazine built its reputation on editorial quality and integrity.  The website provides a lot of [...]

Ford Company is a true success for Social Media.  If you run an outdoors social marketing campaign, you need to take a few tips from Ford.   Check out www.thefordstory.com.  This is a slick site that integrates Ford’s social media profiles into one site.  The site also allows users to write blog posts, enter comments, posts [...]

Customizing your brand’s channel on YouTube is quick and easy.  You can customize your channel to reflect your logo’s colors and fonts.  Follow these 5 easy steps: 1. Log into your YouTube account. Click the yellow “Edit Channel” button. 2. Set up your channel information – website URL, profile picture (88×88) and description. 3. Within [...]

As part of our continuing series of highlighting hunting websites around the web, today we showcase Whitetails.com:     Whitetails.com began in 2000 with a strong dedication to the hunter and outdoorsman. Our passion for both whitetail deer and all wildlife propelled us to compile one of the most complete and informative deer websites on [...]