| Membership At CallingDucks.com |
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| Registering as a member/user at CallingDucks.com is not
required in order to access much of the useful information and the unique
features the site offers. As has been the case since our launch in 2005, the
site and all the information contained remains free and open to anyone and
everyone on the World Wide Web! However, becoming a registered user (member) of
CallinDucks.com will open up a whole new level of content, not found on any
other Waterfowl Hunting site. |
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| CallingDucks.com is now a Social Networking site and
offers many of the same features people would find on FaceBook, MySpace, or
Twitter. Our slant on the Social Networking side of things is that we have
geared our tools and features toward Waterfowl Hunters. If you are a Waterfowl
Hunter and want to tap into what is going on in the Waterfowl Hunting world,
registration at CallingDucks.com will offer you the following special features: |
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| User Profile |
| All registered users at CallingDucks.com have their own user
profile. As a registered user, you will be responsible for and totally in control
of the information that is displayed on your profile and who will be able to see
it. You will be able to share a profile picture, supply your demographics,
indicate you preferences on notifications to receive, and even enter your own
bio. |
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| Find Friends |
| You will be able to choose other registered users of
CallingDucks.com as “Friends”. These will be the people who can see any of the
information that you include on your profile. You’ll be able to adjust settings
on your profile in order to indicate which information you want to share with
your “Friends” at CallingDucks.com. |
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| User Interactions |
The mission of CallingDucks.com is to deliver all the
information that a Waterfowl Hunter might need before, during and after hunting
season. We do that through extensive
online databases that allow you to find the information you need with ease. This
information consists of Companies, Products, Events, News, People, online Media,
and more. As a registered user at CallingDucks.com you will have the opportunity
to interact with this information in order to increase its value for other
online Waterfowl Hunters.
Examples of those interactions are: |
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| Indicate your interest in a topic - You will be able to
indicate that you are interested in (Like, Follow, Fan) a particular topic
within our databases. Once you do this for a topic (person, event, company,
product) then you can receive updates on your profile when any information about
the topic is changed or added. |
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| Event Attendance – You will be able to see which
Companies, Industry Celebrities, and other users will be attending a particular
event. You’ll also be able to indicate whether you plan on attending as well. |
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| Enter Comments – You will be able to enter comments on
any topic in the system. Other users will be able to view your comments and rate
them on their usefulness. |
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| Ratings – You will be able to rate the Companies,
Products, and Events listed in our databases and leave feedback for other users. |
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| User Content |
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| As a registered user at CallingDucks.com you will also be able
to enter content into the system. Basically, you will be able to contribute to
our extensive online databases so that all Waterfowl Hunters on the World Wide
Web are guaranteed the most up-to-date information possible. |
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| News Items – Want to make sure that your “Friends” and
even all other users of the site know about important news? You will be able to
provide links to these news items no matter where they are found. We’ll help you
categorize it so that it will show up to those who will find it interesting.
This could be information from Ducks Unlimited or Delta Waterfowl, or even
updates from your state Wildlife Resources Agency. |
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Field Reports – We all need to do a good job of keeping
up with how our hunts go, and we provide our users with tools to do just that!
You can define your different hunting locations and enter a daily log of how
your hunts went. If you so choose, you’ll be able to share hunting locations with one or more
“Friends” at CallingDucks.com so that they can also enter Field Reports for the
same location. This is the perfect solution for keeping up with the hunt totals
at a shared blind or lease property. Our Field Reports will allow you to be as
detailed as you want to be in terms of species, sex, and numbers. If you take
full advantage of the system you will be able to run reports to view the
statistics for all, or some of you hunting locations.
While the details of your
Field Reports will only be viewable by the users you choose, the raw data will
be used to calculate totals for and derive activity for your Area, State, Region, and Flyway.
You can rest assured that your details will not be viewable by anyone other than
those you personally approve. |
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| Companies – You will be able to enter companies into our
database. This could be a
manufacturer of Waterfowl Hunting equipment, or perhaps just a good guide
service that you know about. |
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| Products – You will be able to enter products that are
offered by the companies in our database. |
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| Events – You will be able to enter your own events into
our system. This might be a large Outdoors Expo that you want everyone in your
region to be aware of, or it could be a Ducks Unlimited Banquet that you are
helping to organize. Whatever the event, you can make it public to other users
on the system if you think they will find it useful or will want to attend.
You can define the "reach" of the Event as Regional, State, or ZIP code,
depending how you wish it to be broadcast to other users. You’ll also have the ability to enter
private Events that you only want to share with your “Friends”, or other users
that you invite. This could be a weekend of hunting or a work party for your
shared blind. No matter the type of Event you enter, you will be able to provide the important information
up front as well as updates
along the way. |
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| Rich Media (Audio, Video, Images) – We all know that in
today’s day and age, there is no shortage of rich media on our own computers and
on the Web in general. As a registered user at CallingDucks.com you will be able
to upload and link rich media and then associate it with not only yourself, but
also with the Companies, Products, Events, News, and People that are part of our
databases. This means that you will on one hand be able to share rich media with
your “Friends” on the system, but you will also help build an extensive catalog
of ANY rich media on the Internet that ALL other Waterfowl Hunters will be interested in. This
could simply
include photos and videos of an Event, or audio and video of notable People,
Companies, and Products. |
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| In short, by becoming a member/user at CallingDucks.com you will
become an active participant in our broad and diverse community of online
Waterfowl Hunters and Enthusiasts. As a whole, our community is building the
most informative web site around! |
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| Click on the link below in order to register and start your
FREE membership today! |
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| REGISTER NOW! |