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SECTION FOUR LEARN IT PRESENTERS “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” ST EV E A DA IR , Director of Operations, Ducks Unlimited Great Plains Region and CHR IS SEBAST IA N, Communications Coordinator, Ducks Unlimited Great Lakes/Atlantic Region. Steve and Chris will welcome AGLOW members to the Ducks Unlimited Great Plain Region Headquarters and along with other DU staff members, present breakout seminars on the importance of prairies to your ducks, hunting the prairies and the greatest threats and opportunities to wetlands. DR EW YOU NGEDY K E , National Wildlife Federation--Drew Youngedyke the Great Lakes communications coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation, will provide an overview of Asian carp management in the Great Lakes region, their potential impacts, proposed solutions, and how outdoor writers can help keep them out of the Great Lakes. HA N NAH HUDSON-What are the things that keep people engaged, feel ownership, and keep people coming back to your social accounts looking for more? Telling the stories that make people feel like they are part of your brand and can identify with you is key to increased social media engagement and conversion. This class is about creating storytelling sequences and strategy for successful social media. - How to tell a story to help people connect with your brand - - The best ways (and times) to share on multiple platforms, - Native vs shared content -Where to get the stories to share - How to get maximum engagement -Technical aspects of scheduling posts, using 3rd party scheduling, when to use hashtags, when to not, when to tag other companies, when to not, among many other tips and tricks. ASHLEY HLEBI NSK Y, Curator of Cody Firearms Museum, Keynote speaker during the USCCA / Delta Defense Luncheon--The Cody Firearms Museum (CFM) is one of the largest f irearms museums in the United States. It is a part of a larger complex, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, that also houses galleries about western history, natural history, western art, and Plains Indian cultures. As a result, the CFM not only has a large visitation of gun enthusiasts, but an international audience of people who do not have a lot, or any, prior experience with f irearms. The museum is undergoing a full scale renovation that will display more of the collection but also better contextualize them within their history. Hlebinsky will be discussing this renovation project as well as some of the opportunities and obstacles of providing the public an apolitical history about artifacts so engrained in modern political debate. Volume 02  No. 04  | 2018