Serving on a staff of a Wood Badge course? Frustrated with dealing with the DVD that has all of those movie clips? Do you wish you had just normal movie files like .mp4 or .mov files that you could embed in a Keynote or Powerpoint presentation? Do you want movie clips with consistent sound volume? If […]
Continue reading →Many years ago, I authored a guest blog for Bryan On Scouting’s blog. This post has, incredibly, continued to drive requests for the food challenge and patrol competition information mentioned in the post. Unfortunately, the email address in the post is no longer accurate and, even if that wasn’t the case, having folks send an email to get a couple […]
Continue reading →Are you staffing an upcoming Wood Badge course? Wood Badge courses are unique in that there is a minimum quantity of participants required for a course to be approved. In some councils, it can be a struggle to meet this requirement. Below are some resources to aid in electronic recruiting. Email Signatures Many Scouters have […]
Continue reading →I’ve created a new type of page on HalfEagle, site pages! In the main HalfEagle feed, there’s a small link at the end of each summary that says “From Site Name x hours ago” which now connects to that site’s page on HalfEagle. For example, here’s what Scoutmaster Jerry’s page looks. As you’ll see, the […]
Continue reading →Last year I put together a post of interesting HalfEagle Stats from 2009 and I want to continue the tradition! I think this was HalfEagle’s sixth year online and clearly we’ve come a long way in that time. Let’s see if anything has changed since last year. How do you get to HalfEagle? About 40% […]
Continue reading →Clark Green recently published a great post on just how much work it is to be a great Scouting blogger or podcaster. He also shared some ways to support the Scouting blogs you love to read. Well, I have a third option. If there’s a Scouting blog or podcast out there that you enjoy and […]
Continue reading →I’ve recently heard a lot of buzz about a new search engine called blekko. I checked it out today and thought it was pretty cool. Since it’s still in beta, it feels a lot simpler and more straightforward than Google searches can be these days. The coolest feature though? Slash tags. They’re kind of like […]
Continue reading →After receiving a second request to add a Scouting blog from the UK, I decided to take a look at the state of Scout blogging in the country where Scouting got started. It didn’t surprise me at all to find quite a few great blogs about Scouting on the other side of the pond! Because […]
Continue reading →Dan at Scouting News let me know about a problem with the HalfEagle twitter bot. Those silly question marks are gone now. Thanks Dan! I realized today that all the topic pages had gone missing. This was not intentional and they are all back now. There’s even a new feature. You can sort the topic […]
Continue reading →Please bear with me while I give HalfEagle some much-needed attention. Expect some changes to appearance, functionality, and content based on the great feedback you’ve given me. I also have a backlog of new blog submissions that need to be reviewed and (hopefully!) added to the site. During these changes, entire sections of the site […]
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