We changed up the Alaska Tweets site theme for 2011 to something a little cleaner and newer (we host via WordPress.com, so our choices are somewhat limited) and we needed a new banner image — something distinctive, something fun, something iconic.
Enter @Robotkarateman. He fired up the graphics ware and created a whimsical new image to welcome site visitors. Please tweet him with your congratulations.
Not everyone is as skilled with social media as you are, my Twitter pals. If you have some old dogs in your life that need to learn some new tricks — with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Flickr and more — there’s an event in Anchorage later this month that can help.
Hosted by @alizasherman and @alaskasherrie, this all-afternoon session on Thursday, January 27 is perfect for small business leaders, marketing pros or anyone that wants to understand how and why social media can fit into your professional communications and personal life.
Get all the details at the Alaska Professional Communicators site, including pricing, location, time and more.
Thanks to @cay_anchor for the tip!
It’s a new year and a chance to make new commitments. Why not make an impact in the world with your Alaska Tweets pals?
We’ve started a new AlaskaTweets Lending Team on the global “micro finance” platform Kiva and we’re inviting everyone to join!
You can fund loans to small entrepreneurs around the world for as little as $25, and you can choose from among borrowers in a variety of countries and for a variety of purposes, risk levels and more. Not sure what we’re talking about? Check out this intro video that explains how Kiva works:
As of this writing, with less than a day’s work, we’ve already made $375 in loans and we have 17 members (that we could figure out) including:
At the end of Jan 1, 2011
In fact, we picked up so many new AlaskaTweets Lending Team members on Kiva this January 1 alone, we were the second fastest-growing team in the world, even beating out Team Canada and Team Europe!
Help us keep the momentum going and help emerging entrepreneurs worldwide at the same time. For as little as $25 you can make a difference — and you’ll even get your money back as loans are repaid!
Plus, it just feels great to start 2011 with a good deed. Or as one AlaskaTweets pal said…
Who knows? Maybe we’ll have a @Kiva Tweetup in Mongolia one day…
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how AlaskaTweets.com did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 4,300 times in 2010. That’s about 10 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 23 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 108 posts. There were 27 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 5mb. That’s about 2 pictures per month.
The busiest day of the year was February 18th with 309 views. The most popular post that day was Fond Farewell Tweetup: Thur, Feb 18 at 6:00pm.
The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, iconfactory.com, facebook.com, twtvite.com, and brizzly.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for bake sale flyers, alaska tweets, alaska twitter, bake sale flyer, and twitter alaska.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Fond Farewell Tweetup: Thur, Feb 18 at 6:00pm February 2010
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Promote the Tasty Tweets Bake Sale with new flyers and graphics August 2009
White Elephant Gift Exchange Tweet-up December 2010
A Polite Tea Party, or, I Believe in Civility and Manners April 2010
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Paperback Swap-Up August 2010
Come join your fellow Twitter peeps for a jolly good time. Have a cup of coffee or cocoa and have a blast exchanging gifts in the White Elephant Gift Exchange!
If you plan on attending, please DM @robotkarateman to RSVP before the 21st so we can have numbers ready for everyone. Suggested gift price is $10-$20, give or take depending on your budget. Alcoholic items are welcome but, please, no “adult” items. This will be a family-friendly event. Also, please wrap your gifts so that it’s not obvious what they are.
The Rules
Join @kaizan and friends this coming Sunday, November 21 at 4:00pm for a Dog Biscuit Baking Tweetup! Make crunchy cookie treats from scratch for tweeter’s best friend while chatting over drinks.
Location to be provided to attendees via email. Just @ or DM @kaizan with questions and to let her know you’re up for the challenge of baking for animals that will, uh… pretty much eat anything. 
UPDATE
OK guys I reserved 2 lanes for NEON BOWLING OF AWESOMENESS! I had to prepay, so by my estimate of responses about 12 people wanted to bowl, we can always add more later if someone wants.
The cost is $14 per person and this includes shoes. Please bring cash or check for me.
We are on the drinking side so this means NO KIDS. Also, please do not forget your ID.
I will be there at 8 to have a drink and we need to check in between 8:30 and 8:45 so we can get wrist bands.
If you need something before then you can reach me via Twitter @mayor_of_twtr !
See you crazy cats there!
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It’s been a while since we’ve had a tweet-up so here’s your chance to get out and see/meet some tweeps!
Come out for a classic (is it?) bowling tweet-up this Saturday (11/13) at 8:00 p.m. at Jewel Lake Bowl!
We will bowl for a couple of hours, have a drink and some laughs! I will be reserving lanes, so if you can go send me an @ or a DM on Twitter and let me know! (@mayor_of_twtr)
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