CampNation 5: Staff Training




CampNation show

Summary: Links - News about the camping/recreation industry (Joe) Google Alerts - Summer Camp - staying up to date on summer camp and on your own facility in the news/blogs/twitter can be hard - but this makes it easier.  Today I learned about: http://mddailyrecord.com/2010/02/11/unplugging-the-ipod-can-little-stacey-survive-summer-camp-without-wifi/ - an article I never would have stumbled across on my regular travels.  I have google alerts set for: summer camp, pearce williams, yoyojoe, yoyojoe.com etc. (Dan) Facebook now allows for you to search the site for public statuses (unlocked statuses from users). (Gab) TEDTalks http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html, Jamie Oliver's talks about food and our responsibility to our children. (Dan) monthly email marketing report News/Discussion - Staff Training Picks Of The Week - A tool that will make you a better camp director Dan - Bullyproof Your Child for Life by Joel Haber. Great book.  Has a whole chapter on camping. (Dan's review on the CampNation blog)Gab -  Buy as many URLs as possible, from facebook to twitter to .org's, you don't want other people owning these site names... I use GoDaddy.com http://www.godaddy.com/Joe - Uninteruppted thinking time - an hour a day or a few hours a week.Travis -  Ego for iPhone http://ego-app.com/ - keep an easy eye on your Google Analytics, feedburner acc't, twitter, vimeo, etc