With FaceBook, with Twitter, feedback mechanisms and all the online social mediums for conversations we’ve attempted to integrate WildObs into those social mediums not create yet another one. As such we resisted creating a forum system for WildObs, until now…

Some conversations are just not that social … they are quite specific, and not something to overload your friends and followers activity streams with. So, we’ve launched WildObs Forums with initially some pretty focused goals:

http://forums.wildobs.com/

Note: You use your WildObs username and password to access these forums.

Help & Using WildObs:

http://forums.wildobs.com/list.php?3

Wildobs Features: What would you like WildObs to do?

http://forums.wildobs.com/list.php?4

and because it is new/maturing/different, WildObs Mobile the mobile website:

http://forums.wildobs.com/list.php?9

Discussions on Wildobsing: Getting out and about and generally interacting with nature:

http://forums.wildobs.com/list.php?8

Please let us know if you have more ideas on forums you’d like to see here.

WildObsMobile for iPhone allows wildlife enthusiasts to enjoy the WildObs community; access featured, popular and recent encounters as well as look-up species.

Unlike WildObs Observer, which is  designed as an offline tool for field work, WildObs Mobile is an online tool for interacting with the WildObs Community. WildObsMobile utilizes minimal device storage.

Check out this free wildlife iphone application — and allow WildObs to help you find your nature:

WildObs Mobile 1.0 for iPhone

WildObs Mobile 1.1 for Android now supports Android 1.5 to Android 2.0 and beyond.

Here is a brief overview of WildObs Mobile including how to use WildObs Mobile for Android to:

• Browse community wildlife encounters (featured, most popular and recent.)
• Perform a species look-up by name or partial name, viewing photographs and other encounters.

Find out more about WildObs Mobile for Android or (if you are on an Android device) go to the market:

There have been a number of requests to for importing photographs previously uploaded to Flickr into WildObs, for use in describing a wildlife encounter. In short the process is:

• Go to your wildobs photograph gallery from your home page, and use the Flickr tab.
• Allow WildObs to connect to Flickr, authorizing it (typically once only) if needed.
• Select the photograph or photographs you wish to import.
• Create new wildlife encounters from one or more of these photographs.

Here is a simple how-to video on how to use this new feature. All feedback is welcomed.

View the wildlife that other observers are seeing around you. Knowing what to look for is half the challenge, and anticipation is much of the fun: