I’m always a little stunned when anything I’ve written gets attention… To be honest, my blog is really a whiteboard of sorts for my own mind. I do it in a semi-public venue because: a. I like getting outside opinions on my thoughts, b. it creates a validation for me as a brand. You want a character reference at a job interview? I can give you that. I can also give you a blog with 5 years of my thoughts. With my minimal marketing, I typically get between 25 and 35 visits per day. As you can tell, I don’t get around much (in a digital sense).
When checking my blog analytics, I noticed that I’ve been getting a little traffic from knoxify.com. After some quick analysis, I discovered that I’m listed under “More Knoxville Blogs.” I don’t know how long I’ve been listed there, but I’m appreciative. I’m also not sure what occurred that is driving traffic through knoxify.com and to my site… but I’ll take it.
I like the knoxify sight and subscribe to the RSS feed, but I really like the two guys leading the effort. I’ve never met either of them in person, but their fingerprints are on some things that I admire and support. Besides, they both seem genuinely interested in advancing our local community. I love it when the world wide web goes local– rock on!
So, here’s to the knoxify folks for listing! Thanks!
And to think, you were so close to meeting Casey and Brandon at our first tweet-up back on April 9th of ’08: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelwender/2400792559/
I’m amazed at how you connected that so quickly! Are you some kind of networking phenom?
I didn’t even think about that!
My mind’s a steel trap — never forget anything.
My minds a colander on its best days…
By the way, just to set the record straight, I looked at that photo again and realized that just Casey is there. However, that’s Patrick Beeson on his left. He’s also known to write the occasional article for Knoxify every once in a while.
Hey Chris, I remember you from the tweet-up. We need to do that again sometime.
Also, Emily has written for Knoxify here: http://knoxify.com/author/etmasonick/
Oh, and one last Kevin Bacon-ism, Emily lives/lived in the same apartment complex as me. How have we not seen each other a million times?
Anyhow, thanks for the kind words about Knoxify. What started as a simple project has grown into something we never imagined. We want to show the world the good things about Knoxville and it appears a lot of other people do, too. And that’s freakin’ awesome!
Keep up the great blog. We’re proud to link to it via our about page.
-CP
Thanks, Casey. I remember Emily writing for Knoxify; she loves that type of stuff.
I thought you moved? Are you still at WC?
@Chris: Yeah, we bought a house out West. Walden was a good place but we were ready to buy.