The Fishin’ Hole - New Blog at Skinny Moose Media

We have another new blog this week. Let’s welcome Jess Graham to the blogging network, where he will be authoring The Fishin’ Hole. The blog will have a high focus on Kentucky fishing and of course it will have a comedic slant. Just from chatting a bit with Jess I could tell immediately he was very entertaining and comical.

Head over and welcome Jess to the Network. Below is his bio…

J.L. Graham is a veteran writer from Western Kentucky. Among the more notable points of his literary career is his book, Modern Day Fishers of Men, available through amazon.com and all major book outlets.

My writers jobs website: http://chasingthemuse.blogdrive.com

Community Bloggers Award - 9/27/2007

I have not given out the Skinny Moose Community Bloggers Award in several weeks as I have been real busy and haven’t had much time to dedicate to this award. But, this week I would like to provide another blogger with the award, and this time it goes to Kristine Shreve of Gun Safety Innovations. This also comes just in time for the broadcast of Open Air with Tom Remington, where Kristine is the guest. Kristine is the Director of Marketing for GSI and fellow blogger.

Kristine is also a founding member of the Outdoor Bloggers Summit, an organization committed to uniting outdoor bloggers. The following is their mission:

The Outdoor Bloggers Summit will do the following:

# Support conservation efforts and positively portray the value of outdoor pursuits
# Encourage and support the efforts of existing outdoor bloggers
# Offer incentive and support for new bloggers who might wish to blog about the outdoors
# Unite the voices of bloggers so we can speak as one about critical issues that effect outdoor pursuits.
# Provide a clearinghouse for information about outdoor pursuits

Kristine is a great leader in outdoor affairs and reaches out into the community daily. This award is well deserved, so Kristine has the option to place this badge on her blog somewhere with a link back.

Congrats!!

Thursday Skinny Moose Radio Program

12pm (EST): Today (Thurs) at Noon we have a 2 hour NFL talk show. Len and Manny bring you Paydirt Football. Find out all the NFL news, gossip, and some predictions for the upcoming games.

2pm (EST): Just following the show will be a one hour tribute to the classic rock band Led Zeppelin. (From 2-3pm)… Sit back and remember the 70’s and reminisce as you listen to songs like Kashmir, Dyer Maker, Dazed and Confuzed, Houses of the Holy, Ramble on, and more…

3pm (EST): Listen to Open Air with Tom Remington as he interviews Kristine Shreve of the Hunt Smart, Think Safety blog. They talk about the Gunslinger product and how safety is their #1 concern. The discuss the general dynamics of the hunting blog niche and some of the ups and downs of blogging. Also, tune in to learn more about Kristine’s organization she recently founded called the Outdoor Bloggers Summit.

If you cannot make it to the live broadcast, we will provide it as a podcast after the show.

Inshore Fishing Action From The Texas Gulf Coast

We have a new blogger this morning. Visit Jason Bryant’s blog The Coast With The Most where he will be blogging about fishing from the Texas Gulf coast. Head over to his new blog and welcome him aboard the Network. Read more about Jason below:

Jason Bryant spent his summers as a teenager honing his angling skills on one of the best bass fisheries in the world — Sam Rayburn Reservoir in east Texas. In recent years he has used his bass fishing background to make a jump to the salty waters of the Texas coast.

Jason is an avid tournament angler in both the kayak and powerboat sides of the sport. He has fished the Oh Boy! Oberto Redfish Cup, Texas Redfish Series and several kayak tournaments throughout the Gulf Coast. He’s accumulated several high finishes including wins in the “Speck”tacular Kayak Series, CKA Red Hot Summer Series, and an Angler of the Year title in the Stars and Stripes Kayak Series.

Jason is an accomplished writer and has had articles published in several regional and national publications including: Texas Saltwater Fishing Magazine, Kayak Fisherman Magazine and Redfish Nation.

He is currently a staff writer for InshoreFan.com and TackleTour.com.

Scentlok Gets Sued by 4 Minnesotans

Four hunters from Minnesota, Mike Buetow of Shakopee, Theodore Carlson of Edina, Gary Richardson Jr. of St. Paul and Joe Rohrbach of Shakopee, are suing ALS Enterprises, Inc. of Muskegon stating that the clothing they manufacture doesn’t work. The Scentlok clothing claims that it locks out or actually locks in, the human scent prohibiting game from smelling the human odor which can frighten them away.

Bryan of deerPhD is all over the story. Go check it out.

J.R. Absher is covering the story and so is Tom of the Black Bear Blog.

Skinny Moose Media was able to get their hands on a copy of the 42 page lawsuit. Click on the following link (pdf).

http://www.skinnymoose.com/ALSLawsuit.pdf (pdf)

How to Write a How-To Post

I just recently wrote a list of ideas of what you could possibly write about if you are drying up on ideas. The second option in the list is to write a “How-To” article.

People love to read about how to accomplish something. If you can shed some expertise every once in a while you can gain a lot of credibility over the long run. Not only can people pull information from your post and attempt to use that information, but they can always come back later and search your archive on related material.

If you have written a dozen “how-to” posts and you can’t think of anything else to write about then learn something new and teach others how to do it. Use photos to help demonstrate what you are trying to say.

A prime example of a “how-to” post would be going through a step by step process on how to field dress a deer, how to tie a fly, or how to remove rust from a gun. These types of blog posts will enlighten your readers and provide you with credibility so that in the future, your readers will return. Why not do an entire series with instructions on how to fly fish?

So keep a mental note of the things you are knowledgeable about and create an online tutorial in the form of a blog post!

Thursday Radio Program

We have some programming today. Noon (EST) listen in to Paydirt Football, a 2 hour NFL talk show. Len and Manny talk about “Belicheat” and more. Also at 3pm (EST) listen to Open Air with Tom Remington. Tom talks about an article regarding wolves and how one person portrays the Fish and Wildlife Service when it comes down to protecting wolves. Hope you enjoy!!

Are You Drying Up On Ideas?

If so… here is a list of ideas for your next blog post…. Just pick one and go with it…

Interviews - Contact someone and ask them a few questions.

How-to - Tell others how to do something.

Tell a personal story - People always love a personal touch. Tell others how that big buck got away.

Report News - Report on some current events happening and provide some commentary.

Cover Pros and Cons of an Issue - Pick a controversial issue and make a list of the pros and cons.

Do a Case Study - Choose an issue and provide all sides. This might be good to do in a series of posts.

Take An Alternative Position - Play devil’s advocate.

Write a Long Follow Up Comment in the form of a new post - Answer a commenter’s question from a previous post by creating a new post. Make sure to link back to it.

Research a topic - Become an expert on a specific topic. Do some research and report your findings.

Create a Top 10 List - Provide a list of the top 10 ways to do something.

Create a List - Create a list… not necessarily 10 of them.

Invite Readers to Guest Post - Declare a week in the near future where you will be posting only guest posts. This will give you some time off from writing but will allow your blog to be updated with new content during that time.

Speedlinking/Roundup - Link to several other blogs in the blogosphere.

Talk about statistics and highlight your visitors - Clue others in on some of your site statistics if you wish to share. Highlight and link to your top referring sites.

Ask a question - Ask your readers what they think.

Solve a problem - Find a problem and provide a solution on how to fix it.

Inspirational post/Uplifting - Talk about an inspirational story. Maybe you took a child hunting for the first time. People like to read about uplifting things.

Poetry - Write a song or poetry.

Create an Image - Play around in photoshop and create images that are unique. Make sure to embed your blog’s link in the bottom corner in case the image goes viral all over the Internet.

Tell a joke - Take time to write out something funny… Feel free to leave off the cutline for 24 hours.

Post a Recipe - People like to cook. Post up a recipe you have tried in the past.

Write a series - Write a series of posts over the next few days. Have at least 3 parts to it.

Update an old post with new news - Find an old post and update it with current news in the form of a new post. Make sure to link from the old to the new and from the new to the old.

Add to a list started by another blogger - Maybe another blogger made a list. Link to it and add 10 new things that could be added to it.

Respond to criticism - Have you been criticized? Respond to it.

Write a FAQ about your niche - Provide your blog with a FAQ page.

Post a picture that speaks a thousand words - Post an image.

Write about a book you are reading - Are you reading a book? Spend time talking about your book.

Run a contest/Offer Award - Run a contest of some sort. Feel free to offer an award.

Highlight your most popular posts - Go back through your old posts and pick out the ones you feel are the most popular ones and create a new post linking back to them.

Run a poll and post the results of that poll - Run a poll.

Write only about a particular theme for a week - Pick a theme and stick to it all week.

Do you have an other ideas?

More Skinny Moose Radio Programs

We now have 2 new radio programs to broadcast on Skinny Moose Radio. John Stabley Outdoors will broadcast at Noon (EST) and again at 8pm (EST).

John Stabley, the host of “STABLEY OUTDOORS” will be bringing you outdoor news from around the country. The content will consist of Outdoor Event & Trade Show Coverage, Interviews, Fish & Wildlife News Coverage, New Product Updates and more.

The other new show is roughly 2 hours long and will broadcast at Noon (EST) every Thursday. The show is called Paydirt Football. A couple of co-hosts will cover NFL news, debate, and some good commentary. So tune in…

Listen to Open Air as a Podcast

There were just a few people who tuned in Thursday afternoon to listen to Open Air with Tom Remington. In this first broadcast he interviewed me over the phone about the launching of Skinny Moose Radio. We will be providing a lot of our radio shows with downloadable links so you can listen to them on your computer after the show airs.

So have a listen. Download Open Air here or listen to it right here on the blog in the player below:

Enjoy! Feel free to provide feedback in the comments section of this post.

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