Back in the day, sportsmen resorted to two hour monthly meetings, form letters sent through the US mail and resent to the target the same way. Phone trees with rotary dial phones tethered to the wall with no voice mail or answering machine.
It is 2015 and the internet has become a household and workplace norm. So are mobile phones which are internet capable. So why do 8 lower states still not allow mourning dove hunting and 11 not allow Sunday hunting for everyone? That is another story…. But networking and copy and paste strategies will eventually change that. How soon that change occurs depends on how quickly the hunting community adopts these strategies, organizes, and gets on the same page…
Let’s address those nasty news editorials first. Back in the Stone Age, we would read a newspaper and write back with a pen on a piece of paper or sometimes use a typewriter. Put it in a stamped envelope addressed to the newspaper and mail it… That was the old way. The new way is to create a GOOGLE email account. Not a yahoo, Hotmail, or any other account, but a G Mail account. Then, create a Facebook account. When that is done, congratulate yourself and prepare to get started as a hunting advocate…
Go online to the google search engine page and type in “Mourning dove hunting”. When your search loads, you will see across the top a list, click on “news”. You will then be prompted to enter your GOOGLE email to receive notification every time this topic (mourning dove hunting) appears in a newspaper or similar media outlet. Indeed sign up for these alerts and check your google ( g mail inbox on a regular basis). Now you are set up for the future, back to today. Go to the list of news articles and right click on each one to open them in a new tab. Open another tab and log in with your Facebook account as well.
You can address each editorial in one of two or in both ways. Send your own letter to the news outlet and/or “comment”. To comment many news outlets do not require you to register if you are logged in with your Facebook account. Using Facebook when possible is also better because it also allows you to “share” your comment and/or the entire article when that is desirable.
After you exhaust the topic of mourning dove hunting, plug in Sunday hunting, then perhaps mute swan. The pheasant issue is trickier – use a few key phrases: pheasant farm, pheasant hatchery, pheasant stocking, pheasant hunting.
This may seem out of order, but why write news outlets and what to say? Some hunters erroneously believe that pro-hunting initiatives can be kept out of the radar of anti-hunters. It cannot, but that doesn’t suggest any benefit in publicizing hunting-related matters. However, anti-hunters use media outlets because it may benefit their agenda. Although antis are entitled to their opinion in the media, they are not entitled to their own facts and it is important that they are held accountable for their statements. Antis use “ad nauseam” arguments – which means they repeat a line of fallacies often enough among the media outlets until it becomes accepted as fact. Even lawmakers have been gullible enough to fall for ‘argumentum ad nauseam’. We have encountered, for example a lawmaker who chaired a conservation committee who was convinced mourning doves were not edible. That lawmaker was voted out of office, by the way.
So the content of your media communications must be factual, relevant, and non-offensive. Use our websites and social media posts for “talking points”. We encourage you to “copy and paste” when possible, however some media outlets block the use of copy and paste. Some outlets will limit how many words and/or ‘time out’ if you take long. This can be very frustrating and lead to giving up – however it is designed to do exactly that, frustrate people and cause them to give up. Don’t give up. You will get familiar with the different policies among the media outlets and it will get easier and easier to the point it is almost effortless.
More about content, you should strive to demonstrate the benefits to non-hunters and non-game as much as possible. The ecological service of population control and control of nuisance animals is indeed a benefit which falls in this category; however, this premise does not resonate well with everybody. We are not suggesting to always avoiding the population control card, however we suggest expanding beyond this topic whenever possible.
Get the e-mail addresses of other hunters and put them into your contact list. For ease, create a group which all of these people can be e-mailed by typing in the group name instead of each individual e mail address. Keep these people updated and encourage them to also create an e-mail hunting network to forward your messages like the phone trees of the Stone Age… When these people are in your e-mail contacts you can also find them on Facebook and other social media which simplifies networking even more.
With Facebook you can join groups, create events, invite others to events, use #hashtags, tag photos and pages, share posts and events, and make it so that Facebook automatically shares to Twitter. You can utilize Facebook to effectively post and share to your page, to newspaper articles, and to forums. Facebook can also be used to share important information to your friends and your groups. In addition you can enhance your posts and shares with tags, and #hashtags (i.e. #NYDoveHunting, #NJSundayHunting, #pheasanthunting). When you have a Facebook account you have the opportunity to indicate which books you have read and to “like” different interests. When choosing which pages, books, and interest you “like” be careful in what you choose, as you are directing what type of daily ‘feed’ you receive. If you subscribe to a page it is different than if you ‘friend’ someone. A page does not receive your feed, but you receive theirs, unlike a friend where in which you both receive each other’s posts or ‘feed’. Hunting related groups are numerous on Facebook and it is important that you join as many of them as you can use. The various Facebook hunting related groups are a means for you to reach the most people interested in hunting.
Forums are quite nasty and harbor a lot of anti-hunters pretending to be hunters as well as apparent drunks and addicts seeking to undermine every effort somebody initiates. However, they can have some use in networking. Some of them do not require registration if you have a Facebook account. So again, like it or not Facebook makes life much easier and efficient. However be cautioned against using a nick name on Facebook as anti-hunters will report you and all your forum posts and forum access will be lost – use your real name on Facebook, use a “handle” with or without Facebook on forums if you prefer…
Forums, news media outlets, social media, regular emails, even comments into online petitions, whatever – you must get accustomed to use of copy and paste and also what is termed “sharing” and “cross posting”.
Our three websites are enabled to share on social media and/or email each article or graph. Online petitions are also enabled to be shared on social media. This tool should not be neglected, take the time to learn how to use this tool…
It is 2015 and the internet has become a household and workplace norm. So are mobile phones which are internet capable. So why do 8 lower states still not allow mourning dove hunting and 11 not allow Sunday hunting for everyone? That is another story…. But networking and copy and paste strategies will eventually change that. How soon that change occurs depends on how quickly the hunting community adopts these strategies, organizes, and gets on the same page…
Let’s address those nasty news editorials first. Back in the Stone Age, we would read a newspaper and write back with a pen on a piece of paper or sometimes use a typewriter. Put it in a stamped envelope addressed to the newspaper and mail it… That was the old way. The new way is to create a GOOGLE email account. Not a yahoo, Hotmail, or any other account, but a G Mail account. Then, create a Facebook account. When that is done, congratulate yourself and prepare to get started as a hunting advocate…
Go online to the google search engine page and type in “Mourning dove hunting”. When your search loads, you will see across the top a list, click on “news”. You will then be prompted to enter your GOOGLE email to receive notification every time this topic (mourning dove hunting) appears in a newspaper or similar media outlet. Indeed sign up for these alerts and check your google ( g mail inbox on a regular basis). Now you are set up for the future, back to today. Go to the list of news articles and right click on each one to open them in a new tab. Open another tab and log in with your Facebook account as well.
You can address each editorial in one of two or in both ways. Send your own letter to the news outlet and/or “comment”. To comment many news outlets do not require you to register if you are logged in with your Facebook account. Using Facebook when possible is also better because it also allows you to “share” your comment and/or the entire article when that is desirable.
After you exhaust the topic of mourning dove hunting, plug in Sunday hunting, then perhaps mute swan. The pheasant issue is trickier – use a few key phrases: pheasant farm, pheasant hatchery, pheasant stocking, pheasant hunting.
This may seem out of order, but why write news outlets and what to say? Some hunters erroneously believe that pro-hunting initiatives can be kept out of the radar of anti-hunters. It cannot, but that doesn’t suggest any benefit in publicizing hunting-related matters. However, anti-hunters use media outlets because it may benefit their agenda. Although antis are entitled to their opinion in the media, they are not entitled to their own facts and it is important that they are held accountable for their statements. Antis use “ad nauseam” arguments – which means they repeat a line of fallacies often enough among the media outlets until it becomes accepted as fact. Even lawmakers have been gullible enough to fall for ‘argumentum ad nauseam’. We have encountered, for example a lawmaker who chaired a conservation committee who was convinced mourning doves were not edible. That lawmaker was voted out of office, by the way.
So the content of your media communications must be factual, relevant, and non-offensive. Use our websites and social media posts for “talking points”. We encourage you to “copy and paste” when possible, however some media outlets block the use of copy and paste. Some outlets will limit how many words and/or ‘time out’ if you take long. This can be very frustrating and lead to giving up – however it is designed to do exactly that, frustrate people and cause them to give up. Don’t give up. You will get familiar with the different policies among the media outlets and it will get easier and easier to the point it is almost effortless.
More about content, you should strive to demonstrate the benefits to non-hunters and non-game as much as possible. The ecological service of population control and control of nuisance animals is indeed a benefit which falls in this category; however, this premise does not resonate well with everybody. We are not suggesting to always avoiding the population control card, however we suggest expanding beyond this topic whenever possible.
Get the e-mail addresses of other hunters and put them into your contact list. For ease, create a group which all of these people can be e-mailed by typing in the group name instead of each individual e mail address. Keep these people updated and encourage them to also create an e-mail hunting network to forward your messages like the phone trees of the Stone Age… When these people are in your e-mail contacts you can also find them on Facebook and other social media which simplifies networking even more.
With Facebook you can join groups, create events, invite others to events, use #hashtags, tag photos and pages, share posts and events, and make it so that Facebook automatically shares to Twitter. You can utilize Facebook to effectively post and share to your page, to newspaper articles, and to forums. Facebook can also be used to share important information to your friends and your groups. In addition you can enhance your posts and shares with tags, and #hashtags (i.e. #NYDoveHunting, #NJSundayHunting, #pheasanthunting). When you have a Facebook account you have the opportunity to indicate which books you have read and to “like” different interests. When choosing which pages, books, and interest you “like” be careful in what you choose, as you are directing what type of daily ‘feed’ you receive. If you subscribe to a page it is different than if you ‘friend’ someone. A page does not receive your feed, but you receive theirs, unlike a friend where in which you both receive each other’s posts or ‘feed’. Hunting related groups are numerous on Facebook and it is important that you join as many of them as you can use. The various Facebook hunting related groups are a means for you to reach the most people interested in hunting.
Forums are quite nasty and harbor a lot of anti-hunters pretending to be hunters as well as apparent drunks and addicts seeking to undermine every effort somebody initiates. However, they can have some use in networking. Some of them do not require registration if you have a Facebook account. So again, like it or not Facebook makes life much easier and efficient. However be cautioned against using a nick name on Facebook as anti-hunters will report you and all your forum posts and forum access will be lost – use your real name on Facebook, use a “handle” with or without Facebook on forums if you prefer…
Forums, news media outlets, social media, regular emails, even comments into online petitions, whatever – you must get accustomed to use of copy and paste and also what is termed “sharing” and “cross posting”.
Our three websites are enabled to share on social media and/or email each article or graph. Online petitions are also enabled to be shared on social media. This tool should not be neglected, take the time to learn how to use this tool…