Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Mini Treasures Daily

A dream has come true again - I wanted to become a journalist and now I am editor in chief in a new eMagazine called The Mini Treasures Daily. :)

How do I have time for yet a new project?
I don't! :)

My social media friends started to use Paper.li already some time ago and I have often been referred in their mags. Before I started using Paper.li myself (that is two days ago) I was always amazing about their papers - how do they have time for that?

My mag is generated every day automatically based on a list I maintain in Twitter - it contains people who are tweeting about dolls, dollhouses and miniatures. The Paper.li services somehow analyzes the tweet they are doing and creates a mag out of them. It always gives the source for the news so people in the mag may get new Twitter followers.

I am now waiting the third mag to be published, the earlier ones can be found from the archive: first and second.

I think this service is new for many of you and it may raise confusion about the rights. Tweets are public and they can be used where ever: you can talk about tweets in your blog, in Facebook, in forums etc. The important thing is the sources - do not take credit from something you have not created yourself.

I hope you enjoy the new mag :). And if you know good tweeps to be added to the list, tell me!

Update:


If you want out of my mag tell me and I'll remove you from the list. Other option is to block me - as I guess I can't list people who have blocked me.

I was asked if I make money with the mag. No I don't but of course somebody is - paper.li is selling stupid ads to mags. I guess if I started paying for the service I could get rid of them. Money makes the world go round and every service provider (Facebook, Twitter, Google) looks for opportunities to make more money from the content we are spreading all over the web or by selling our data to advertisers.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Top-10 searches & printies

Maybe you are also interested about the most used search phrases? They were

1. mini printables
2. picture ice cream chairs made from champagn cork
3. diy miniature
4. roomboxes
5. dollhouse printables
6. miniature fairies
7. dollhouse miniature printables
8. miniature food tutorial
9. miniature printables
10. miniature printies


so a lot of people are looking for printies. Makes sense to me. Have you noticed that when you search for printies you often go to pages which start to warn you about some kind of danger? So if we all put our links to MTW it would be safe for us to search our printies through it. And we have a printie group too at Flickr where we can collect nice printies. :) Have you any nice Christmas printies you could add there now?

Top-10 pages @ MTW

Haven't had time to check the stats for a while but now I am sharing you a list of the 10 most popular pages. Are these also your favorites?

1. printables
2. trash_minis
3. character_dolls
4. advent_calendar_2010 - I guess this will be the most popular page in December :)
5. christmas
6. diy
7. projects
8. advent_calendar_2009 :)
9. museums
10. roomboxes

Monday, November 29, 2010

MTW Advent calendar starting - help us!


Hi bloggers, Facebookers, Tweeps and other social media users!

I need your help! The second MTW Advent Calendar starts in two days and I need all the help I can get in promoting it. So please add a button to your blog, share the link in Facebook or tweet about it.

I do not want any miniaturist to be unaware about the fun that is about to start :). I already filled my page (no peeking allowed, I can see if you do and so will the Santa) and can't wait to see what others come up with. :)

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

How to embed Flickr photos in Pbworks

I was sure I had shared this presentation in this blog earlier but could not find it. :( So now that the advent calendar time is very near it is time refresh our memory and see how easy it is to add Flickr pictures to our wiki. There are still some pages available so go and reserve yours before it is too late :).

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Consulting social media for you

Dear friends

I think I owe you an explanation - haven't been that active at Mini treasures lately. I am not abandoning it but been busy elsewhere. During the last month I have moved, lost relatives and started a company of my own. It is called Hidden treasure - Piilotettu aarre according to my two blogs concentrating on social media. In my company I give social media trainings and consultations for companies, cities and other organizations and I also create content to social media services. So a lot is going on and that's why I do not have the resources right now to develop Mini treasures. The good news is that I think about social media 24/7 and every now and then I get new ideas for our community as well. :)

I work from the Central of Finland and travel a lot inside Finland - but it would be lovely to go abroad as well. :) So here's an offer for you - if you have a company selling dollhouse miniatures and would like promote your business with help of social media I am the best consultant you can ever get - I know this field by heart, I know the social media services and as you know I am full of ideas. :) So contact me e.g. by email.

Take care and lots of mini hugs,
Johanna