Mini treasures

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. :)

Wohoo - Mini treasures just got the first blog award :). It was given by The Fashion Doll Review thank you very much, you don't know how much this means for me :). In favor I added your Facebook page to Mini treasures favorites. :)

The rules on this prize, if you'd like to play along, are as follows:
Write a post about this prize, including the photo above and a link to the blog which awarded you the prize. Then, award it to 15 blogs that you enjoy reading.

It is always very hard to choose the favorite blogs so I let Google Analytics do the work for me and promote the blogs that has brought most traffic to Mini treasures wiki during the last month. Fair game and very nice blogs also, go and visit them. :)

So my winners are:

1. Schifka - schifka.vuodatus.net
2. Nukkekoti Väinölä - nukketalo.vuodatus.net
3. Hanna&leijona - hannajaleijona.blogspot.com
4. A miniature life - a-miniature-life.blogspot.com
5. Doreen's miniatures - doreensminiatures.blogspot.com
6. Fashion doll review :) - fashiondollreview.blogspot.com
7. Nasun nukkekoti - nasunnukkekoti.blogspot.com
8. The mini food blog - theminifoodblog.blogspot.com
9. Pubdolls - pubdolls.blogspot.com
10. Debbie's tiny treasures - debbiestinytreasures.blogspot.com
11. Little roomers - littleroomers.blogspot.com
12. My small obsession miniatures - mysmallobsessionminiatures.blogspot.com
13. The barbiequeue - thebarbiequeue.blogspot.com
14. Tarja's crafts - tarjascrafts.blogspot.com
15. A minha casa en miniatura - aminhacasaemminiatura.blogs.sapo.pt
16. Cauldron craft miniatures - cauldroncraftminiatures.blogspot.com

Congrats and thank you for linking to Mini treasures wiki :).

I definetely would! But I seem to lack the time of producing interviews here. We have pretty good formula for them already.

Questions are the same every time:

Hi x! How does it feel to (this part is different every time)?
Tell a little about yourself: who you are, where do you come from and what do you do?
Do you have any hobbies other than miniatures?
When and how did you start doing miniatures?
What is your latest / next mini-project?
How did you find Mini Treasures wiki and what is your favorite page in the wiki?
What would you like to see in the wiki in the future?
Thanks for the interview!


And I have ideas for who to interview next.

So would you like to help me be starting to make the interviews in this blog? What is required from you is:
-time
-passion for miniatures and especially for Mini treasures wiki
-knowledge of Blogspot (Blogger)
-ability to write good enough English (you are proof-reading the answers, you don´t need to be a native speaker - I am not one either)

If you are interested, leave a comment or write an email to me.

I hope I find you fast, my new co-blogger :).

Somebody just posted a comment that I should add a translator to this blog. True! I had one here previously but it looked so ugly that I removed it and now I couldn´t find any blog translators. :P So help me and suggest me one that you like. :)

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Thanks to Kathi we now have a translator here :). I needed to use an html gadget with the code found on this page.

I am a statistician so I love studying the numbers, stats and graphs - and I want to share my studies with you :). This time I looked the top 10 web pages that are bringing traffic to the wiki.

1. direct traffic, i.e. people who have bookmarked the site
2. jasminasnoussi.punt.nl - this is something amazing, Jasmina beat Google! Hurray! She is writing an online web magazine with cool links she has seen recently - see it translated to English
3. Google
4. nukkekoti.pbworks.com - this is the big sister of Mini treasures wiki, the first wiki I established (in Finnish) - you can study it in English too
5. poohbeers.eigenstart.nl - another Dutch site full of cool mini links, see it translated to English
6. miniaturama.webavenue.be - a Belgium based miniature discussion forum in French, see it translated in English
7. minitreasures.blogspot.com - this blog :). Thank you readers! :)
8. adventkalender.punt.nl - a Dutch miniature advent calendar with links to other calendars, see it translated to English
9. mustix.vuodatus.net - one of my favorite miniature blogs in Finnish, see the translation in English
10. facebook.com - I guess the Facebook traffic is coming mainly from the new wiki fan page but there might be people linking to the wiki from their own profiles as well.

So what do you think, was this interesting information and did you find any cool new sites? It is quite funny that all the top ten sources were in other languages than English (except Google and Facebook of course). I think I will share the same stats with you again as this was so interesting :).

I just updated the FAQ of the wiki and realized there are quite many ways to follow the wiki.

1. you can order emails from the wiki
2. you can order RSS feeds from the wiki
3. you can follow this blog
4. you can join Facebook fan page to get notified of some wiki news
5. you can follow Twitter to get these notifications:
* notifications of new blog entries of Mini treasures blog
* notifications of Facebook updates
* some notifications of wiki updates (not all)
6. you can bookmark the wiki and visit it when ever you have time

Now it is up to you to choose the one that suits best for you. :)

It would be nice to hear how you do it?

Linda from Little Roomers shared a great tip : how to add a calendar gadget to your dollhouse blog. Good idea!

So add a gadget called Feed in your Blogspot blog and give this url: http://30boxes.com/rss/7946313/Minitreasurespbwikicom/338680de87dc957a06229c787d3fac97/0/ so that you will always now what is happening in the mini world :). (Don´t forget also to add the happenings to the calendar).

Another Feed you could add is the recent changes in the wiki feed: http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/rss.xml .

Hurray, I just got the 1000th visitor for this blog. I don´t know her(his) name, but I do know that she comes from South Africa /Johannesburg, Gauteng and she came to Mini treasures blog from the wiki. If you notice this, please leave me a comment or send me an email (johantti at yahoo dot com) so that I can interview you in this blog :).

Building up a wiki or a forum is tough - it takes time before people find the place and start contributing. I know that during the fall more and more miniaturists will find the wiki but what´s the situation now when the wiki is 4 months old?

Let´s see. There are

-already 246 pages in the wiki. Sounds a lot but most of the pages contains only few links - I´m hoping that you will add more links about your favorite subjects eventually.

-22 wiki users (=they have signed in) and every day on average 11 wiki visitors.
-54 members in Flickr group
-40 followers in Twitter
-22 so called Followers in this blog (=they have signed in) and on average 6 blog visitors daily
-12 people in the Facebook group
-12 friends in YouTube

When I started the wiki I thought I could make some small money with it (at the moment I´m between jobs) but soon I decided not to "ruin my hobby". So while I´m looking for work I am using the wiki as one of my portfolios. As time goes by I hope the wiki grows to be a real treasure: the biggest and nicest dollhouse/miniature link collection in the world.

If you want to help me in that you can do it easily. :)

-If you have a web site or a blog, add a link to Mini treasures wiki (see buttons here).

-If you have account in Google/Flickr/Twitter/YouTube/Facebook join one of the fan groups (see the links in the main page) and feel free to promote it to your friends too.

-Get yourself an account from the wiki too and start adding some links every now and then. It´s perfectly ok to promote your own stuff there whether you are a seller, a newbie or an artist - the wiki is meant for all of us who love miniatures.

Cool, I have now here already 10 followers, congrats to Pubdolls - you was the number 10. And thanks to Debbie, who has brought me new readers today by posting about the wiki.

PS. I have problems with Sitemeter & PBworks combination, I don't see the referring urls there. Can someone help?

Do you have any ideas how to promote the new wiki? I tried Wikipedia.org but the link was removed because the site is not mature enough, i.e. not long enough history and not enough editors. Well, it's almost 2 days old now and there has been 2 editors in addition to me, why that is not enough? ;) I've been telling about the new wiki to my dollhouse friends and some of them have forwarded the news to their friends. I'm also hoping that once people find out that they are getting visitors from my wiki they are eager enough to study it further.

But before starting the big wiki promo campaign I need more content. :)

I started with blogs but now there's pages also for:
forums
home pages
magazines and
printables .

In near future I'll add the shops but before that I need to figure out how I structure the shop pages, by countries, by languages, by continents, by names (alphabetically), by the way they are selling, by assortment... Any ideas for that?

PS. This blog has been added to Blogilista and Blogged.

Just in case I ever want to start updating a miniature blog in Blogger, I reserved this name for me. Goes well with my another blog, Hidden treasure 2.0. :) Meanwhile I blog in Share and Yahoo, only in Finnish though.

The accessorized chair in the picture belongs to Iines Ahola, who loves pink and teddies and is a namesake to Daisy Duck. Click the picture to see the details better, the glass box is a tiny roombox featuring a japanese teddy scene, the poor old teddy is crocheted by me from thread. The chair was done for a competition held in Nukkekotielämä group a year ago.