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MTW highlights 2011

2012-01-18T21:35:00.002+02:00

Want to know how the last year went for Mini treasures? Here you are. The year was exciting and one of the reasons for that was that Google fell in love with Mini treasures wiki (as some of you have too).

I hope this year will be even bigger and I hope you all are helping us to grow. :)

MTW stats 2011

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PS. In few weeks we are starting a wiki editing course. It is not a typical one but a contest at the same time. We are taking only the 10 participants in. So if you have wished you knew how to edit our wiki now is your chance. I promise it will be the most fun and exciting course you ever take, do not miss it!

Happy new year mini friends

2012-01-09T14:51:00.001+02:00

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Hi friends!

We had such a wonderful mini year :). The year 2011 ended with our popular advent calendar, every day we saw a mini surprise. Managing the calendar together with my personal rush hours (with kids, Christmas & my own business) took the juice out of me so I decided to keep some distance with MTW: I was away about 2 weeks. I guess that is the longest time ever since I started almost 3 years ago. But now I am back and soon I am going to introduce you a brand new activity. It will be lots of fun, be prepared.

Now I wish we will have another great year together with lots of shared mini treasures. :)

Yours, Johanna

A mystery house

2011-12-22T12:22:00.000+02:00

Got pictures from a person who had found my wiki and thought I might know what this dollhouse is all about. I didn't so I am challenging you: what do you know about this (ps. you can answer also in Finnish - voit vastata myös suomeksi).

Measurements: width 46cm, depth 41cm and hight 48cm.

Happy Halloween from Mini treasures

2011-10-31T10:05:00.000+02:00

Our Flickr group has been busy uploading pictures of Halloween minis. Enjoy!

Behind the bed / scenes

2011-10-30T20:37:00.001+02:00

You know Linda, my co-moderator. She partipated a canopy bed project with a group of miniaturists and shared the results in the Littleroomers blog. She emailed the group and I was added as cc and I wanted to publish the email in this blog too. Go ahead Linda and tell your story!

This post was made to the Dollhouse Mini Projects digest after the group completed a project and the participants consented to have their beds featured.

Now, anyone who completes their bed and wishes to be included in the post, please send me a pic and the description and I will add them.
I also put a link on the Bed page of the wiki

I also wrote about the technique of lace and embossed paper on the furniture page with a link to the blog illustrating the technique.

Scroll down to the last tip, and click on the here link.

What is a a Minitreasures wiki, you ask? It is the same as the wiki-pedia whicb we all use, only for miniatures. I suppose we could call it a mini-pedia! Here is the link to wikipedia which talks about PB works, the wiki site used by MTW.

I don't know about you, but I have frantically saved all sorts of tips, sites, pictures throughout the years, but have great trouble locating the info. The wiki enables me to save links to specific subjects on pages, which can inter-connect, and to share that info with others.
Go to http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/20981680/FrontPage
Beds are furniture, right? If you enter furniture in the search box on the upper right, the drop down menu offers 2 selections. The folder contains a list of all pages related to furniture. The page (with the little pencil to indicate editing) offers a generic page for general tips and info that apply to furniture in general.

This format kinda fits my tiny little OCD mind. I can't get my mind wrapped around Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin, but I can understand a dictionary!
Hope this explains about the wiki a bit. Look on Youtube for some tutorials

Linda McD from NOTL, Ontario
aka minilinda2001
http://picasaweb.google.ca/minilinda2001

Easy access to your favorite wiki pages

2011-08-23T17:27:00.000+03:00

1083. That´s the amount of pages in our wiki at the moment. A lot! Once in a while you pump into a page you want to visit also later. There is a nice way to bookmark those pages - you just give stars to your favorite pages. How is it done?
See the instructions and participate a contest - maybe you will win these delicious mini chocolates? :)

A contest ongoing

2011-07-17T16:17:00.001+03:00

We have the second contest ongoing in Mini treasures wiki this summer. This time Vesi Koleva was the one to sponsor us with this cool set of a rose and a bread board. Looks good does it? :) To participate our contest go to spreading the word page and leave a comment - tell what you have done to promote our wiki and you might get Vesi´s miniatures :).

600 fans in Facebook!

2011-07-16T00:22:00.001+03:00

We have just reached 600 fans in our Facebook page, amazing amount, thank you all :). I wanted to look who our fans are and now I´m sharing it with you too :).

4.3% of our fans are male
28% of our fans are 45-54 year old female
25% are female between 35-44 years
22% are over 55 years
15% are between 25-34 years

Our top 10 countries are
United States
Finland
United Kingdom
Spain
Denmark
Canada
Indonesia
Italy
Sweden
France
Hong Kong

A rose is a rose is a... donated by Pei Li

2011-06-09T21:50:00.001+03:00

Want to get these? Promote our wiki in a way or another to win them :). See more from our contest page.

MTW photo challenge

2011-05-29T14:17:00.001+03:00

By now you have all seen this:

It´s been in use for more than two years now so no wonder I´d like it to renew somehow. That´s why I started a challenge. Here´s a picture for you to use (click it to see it bigger):

I want you to create something new out of it. I did some myself to insprire you:

But this style is the one like most:

You can enter the challenge e.g. by commenting here or at Flickr or Mini treausures wiki.

Hope to see many of you contributing :).

Summer of flowers is just about to start!

2011-05-27T18:00:00.000+03:00

The beginning of this year we have been featuring different colours in Mini treasures. Now it is time to pick another theme: we are looking at flowers now. Are you selling mini flowers? Make sure your shop is listed. Or have you created flower prints, instructions, videos? Have collected flowers enough for a garden or a flower shop? Share your beautiful flowers with will you and dont forget to enjoy the real life flowers around you too :).

MTW Award 2011

2011-04-14T00:29:00.001+03:00

Wohoo - it is time to share the awards again. This time they go to the following...

1. jasminasnoussi.punt.nl
2. poohbeers.eigenstart.nl
3. schifka.vuodatus.net
4. hannajaleijona.blogspot.com
5. a-miniature-life.blogspot.com
6. theminifoodblog.blogspot.com
7. miniaturwelten.plusboard.de
8. nukketalo.vuodatus.net
9. debbiestinytreasures.blogspot.com
10. minifreunde-forum.de
11. littleroomers.blogspot.com
12. adventkalender.punt.nl
13. kurjenpolvi.blogspot.com
14. doreensminiatures.blogspot.com
15. foro.mundorecetas.com
16. pubdolls.blogspot.com
17. mustix.vuodatus.net
18. lastanzadigiuggiola.blogspot.com
19. tinytreasuresminilinks.blogspot.com
20. inchscaled.com
21. suomennukkeyhdistys.fi
22. mysmallobsession.com
23. nukketalo.org
24. fashiondollreview.blogspot.com
25. nasunnukkekoti.blogspot.com

So go ahead and add this banner to your site! :) Thanks for bringing the traffic :).

2nd anniversary coming

2011-04-08T23:39:00.003+03:00

Hi friends!

Amazing thing - I noticed we have 100 followers in this blog. Thank you so much for your interest :).

Next week will be a special one - Mini treasures wiki will be 2 years old on 14th April. Last year I organized a virtual party and had a lot of fun. I was planning something similar this year with contests and everything but have been too busy to organize it. For example last week I visited Denmark for a conference that was held in Lego hotel - what an inspiring place it was! Too bad the park itself was closed.

So I was about to tell you that there will be no party at all but felt too bad about that so here it is: a page for us to celebrate the occasion again.

And there will be one contest - I will let you know who of you has brought most traffic to our wiki during the last year. :)

New ideas needed for promo

2011-03-06T00:12:00.003+02:00

Lately I have notice a lot of new activity in Mini treasures wiki which is just great :). But as the owner I am not content - I want to have even more :).

So now I am asking if you can come up with new ways of promoting - how can we get even more miniaturists to visit our site? At the moment we have about 200 daily visitors (and over 4000 monthly visitors) but I know we could get much more. So shoot me! What could we do? Is there someone of you who would like to interview me for a blog or a mag? Could you tell about the wiki in your club meetings or for your forums? Should we arrange a big contest? Pleeeeeeeeease - I need new ideas my friends :).

PS. If you host a mini site and follow your stats it would be nice to hear about your traffic.

Top 10 search phrases in Feb

2011-02-27T22:11:00.004+02:00

Something from the stats again. :)

People google for the following words before they enter Mini treasures wiki:

1. dollhouse printables
2. mini printables
3. minitreasures wiki
4. miniature printables
5. dollhouse miniature printables
6. miniature printies
7. dollhouse blogs
8. dollhouse miniatures japanese room
9. puppenhaus lundby
10. ddung

No wonder printables page is the most popular page in our wiki :). See also the other popular pages.

What is your favorite printable site at the moment and is it found from the wiki already?

But the 10th phrase was a real surprise for me. ddung! Are the some people making miniature projects inspired by her?

The wiki is upgraded again

2011-02-20T19:02:00.006+02:00

Usch - I just paid for the second upgrade, we have now got yet another year for premium version of PBworks. I think last year the payment was something like 100 dollars - now it is nearly 500$. It feels kind of lot for a hobby project but I guess I need to continue with the premium version so that we are not loosing anything (members nor data) and to keep spammers away from it.

In case you would like to help me with the payment you can easily do it by
- making Amazon purchases using the links from our wiki
- donating via PayPal (just let me know your email address, mine is the same old)
- buying fan products from our Cafe Press shop.

And if you do not have any money or will to use for monetizing Mini treasures wiki at the moment don't worry, I am sure someone (like me) is taking care it for you. :)

But if you do want to spoil yourself see if there are any nice books here you'd need to get:

Take care wiki friends!

About.com contest ongoing

2011-02-05T00:16:00.003+02:00

I woke up late on this but still... There is a contest nomination ongoing on about.com about miniature blogs, books and kits. If you like Mini treasures you could help me in promoting the service by voting this blog. Not much time anymore though - it will be interesting to see who will win this :).

MTW goes pink

2011-01-31T22:25:00.002+02:00

As some of you have noticed we started this year in Mini treasures wiki with colour theme. The first colour was blue, then we did orange and now it is time to go pink. That's because Valentine's day of course. What colour would you like to see next on our main page?

The end of this year stats

2010-12-29T21:01:00.003+02:00

I thought it is time to check some stats again as the year is almost over. :)

During this year we got nearly 30 000 unique visitors to our wiki. Wow, that is something! :) How ever a lot of them left the site almost immediately so I guess they came via search engines looking for something else. I hate the way e.g. "dollhouse" is being used - it is a name of a band and a tv-serie and a book and what else... Why can't they leave the word for us? :P

Still the average visitor spent 4 minutes on our site. :)

Where do the visitors live?

1. United States 18 806
2. Finland 4 724
3. Canada 4 057
4. United Kingdom 2 925
5. Germany 2 440
6. Netherlands 2 219
7. Spain 1 624
8. Australia 1 266
9. Italy 772
10. France 734

Are you surprised about the figures or missing countries? Do help us in promoting the wiki! If you like it tell about it to your mini colleagues - e.g. write to your own dollhouse blog, forum or mag. I can help you by providing information for you :). Or take any button from this page to be added to your own page. :) Finland is number 2 because I come from Finland and me and my friends promote it a lot locally. Canada is number 3 mainly thanks to Linda who is promoting it there. I am not sure who are the promoters in US and UK or the rest of the countries, if it is you, tell me :). For Netherlands it must be Jasmina...

Where do they come?
Of course I guess some promoters by the traffic sources. :) The yearly top-10 list is:

1. google / organic
2. (direct) / (none)
3. flickr.com / referral
4. bing / organic
5. yahoo / organic
6. facebook.com / referral
7. nukkekoti.pbworks.com / referral
8. jasminasnoussi.punt.nl / referral
9. minitreasures.blogspot.com / referral
10. google.com / referral

And what they look then? The top-10 pages were:

1. /printables
2. / main page
3. advent_calendar_2010
4. /trash_minis
5. /projects
6. /diy
7. /character_dolls
8. /roomboxes
9. /museums
10. /shops

It will be interesting to see how the stats look like next year. :)

Now it is time to thank you once again you, Mini Treasures friends and fans. I am hoping you have a wonderful year with lots of mini treasures :).

Merry Christmas

2010-12-22T17:13:00.003+02:00

I wish all my mini friends a very merry Christmas (or what ever seasonal holiday you are celabrating)!

If you have a mini related seasonal greeting, you are welcome to share it with other Mini treasures people in Facebook or Flickr.

And remember to check all the windows from our advent calendar (no peeking allowed;).

I have also a Christmas gift for you: The Mini Treasures Daily newspaper :)

The Mini Treasures Daily

2010-12-22T16:49:00.007+02:00

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.

Top-10 searches & printies

2010-12-01T23:42:00.002+02:00

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

2010-12-01T23:12:00.003+02:00

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

MTW Advent calendar starting - help us!

2010-11-29T19:27:00.003+02:00

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. :)

Creative commons @ MTW

2010-11-27T10:28:00.001+02:00

I just added the terms of use to Mini treasures wiki. We follow CC license, read more about that.