Several months back I mailed a handwritten note to the Minnesota DNR’s Chris Niskanen, Communications Director, Office of Communication and Outreach requesting to be included in these annual roundtable meetings. Well, you probably guessed it…Niskanen took NO ACTION on my request.
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It appears to be one of the new YouTube sensations. I even seen a short segment about the video this morning on NBC’s Today Show. Do you like it? Do you think it’s done in a tasteful fashion? What do you think about this sort of marketing…is it over the top? Would you patronize this [...]
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As I was sitting on the plane traveling home from the show I was thinking how now I finally understand what those outdoors writers who were my mentors 20 years ago were doing.
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A few people have recently asked me just what exactly is the Minnesota Governor’s Deer Hunting Opener (GDHO). Good question. What started out as an attempt by Governor Tim Pawlenty back in 2003 to celebrate the state’s deer hunting heritage has morphed into many different things as it is now celebrated today. In fact, you [...]
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A few weeks ago the family was doing a massive cleaning in one of our sheds when my wife held up a magazine and asked “Do you want this?” As I glanced her way my heart skipped a few beats then I sternly responded, “Hell YES I want that magazine! I didn’t even know I [...]
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Is this another example of the media just gushing to make hunters look bad? Perhaps it wouldn’t look so obvious if they at least took the time to get the facts accurate in their reporting.
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I write this blog post with lots of mixed emotions. Back in 1989, when I attended my first Outdoor Writers Association of America annual conference in Des Moines, Iowa, I was in awe. There must have b…
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Presented by John Beath (OWAA president): Use YouTube videos to drive traffic to your site. Brand your videos in the editing process (both when the video starts and ends). You must be entertaining, informative or both. You need to have good sound for your videos. Always offer an interesting background. Use videos to entertain your [...]
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Craft improvement presentation by Lisa Densmore: Universal rules: Treat the video camera as a person. Minimize hand movement — don’t point at the camera, if it’s obvious, you don’t need to point to the object shown in the video. Slow down — speak decisively. Eliminate the “um’s” and the “Uh’s” — silence is better. Don’t [...]
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The following notes were taken from a craft improvement session of the Outdoor Writers Assn of America (annual conference) on the topic of Sponsored Blogs and Innovative Web Opportunities — presented by Kim Kavin, past president of Boating Writers International (www.bwi.org). www.boatermouth.com and www.charterwave.com are her two websites. If you learn just a little about [...]
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