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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 [...]

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 [...]

FieldJournals is currently offering a new way to advertise your business or website on our blog.  FieldJournals will stream each and every one of your tweets on our site.  The only data we need from you is your Twitter name.  Here’s how it works. You’ll notice on the right side of our site we have [...]

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: [...]

It’s no secret that we don’t like the way ESPN handles their Outdoors section of their site.  The site is old, not maintained, and blogs are months old.  So tonight I’m relaxing, drinking a few cold guys, reading my usual hunting sites.  Somehow I land on ESPN Outdoors site, in the Hunting section.  Right off [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

So you are a hardcore hunter who has pictures of your monster buck on Flickr, your own videos posted on YouTube, you’re active on Twitter bragging about your monster buck, you have your own blog where you provided all kinds of details about your hunt, you have a community on Facebook interacting with other hunters, [...]

So you have your own Outfitting company with several outfitters (employees) working for you.  You obviously can’t be on Twitter 24 hours a day monitoring and posting, but you can delegate your employees to share your company’s Twitter account.  With CoTweet, you can manage up to six Twitter accounts through a single CoTweet login. Invite colleagues [...]

If you are an outdoors business, you need to have Community Manager on your staff  in today’s social web.  Large businesses like Cabela’s or BassPro need to have a person in this position to monitor and react to conversations on the web.  Major brands such as these two companies should have a community manager and [...]