Glaciers, Trails, and Seldovia | The First Two Excursions
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Excursions, General, Participants | No Comments »In rural areas of Alaska like Homer, cabin fever has been known to drive even the most peaceful of souls to hysteria. So with the sanity of our volunteers dear at heart, we’ve been focusing on excursions that get ...
Collective Week(s) in Review
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in General, Participants, Tech Team | No Comments »It is the beginning of my fourth week, and a lot has happened since I arrived. We rolled out a tech release package, launched group RSS feeds, witnessed several great presentations, started several of our large projects, and ...
How to use RSS with CouchSurfing groups
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Tutorial | No Comments »RSS feeds have made their way to CouchSurfing! Your group posts can now be viewed by RSS subscription. The RSS links are at the bottom of every public group page, and are also available in your Communication Settings page. Here is ...
What are we trying to achieve?
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »To help give our members an insight into what it is we are working towards achieving, not only as Collective participants, but as an organization, check out the priorities page of this blog. Click here for the CouchSurfing Project Priorities
International CouchSurfing Day
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in General, Membership, Participants | No Comments »Happy International CouchSurfing day everyone! Get out and connect with your local CouchSurfing community! Today we are going to be heading to Turnagain Pass to throw some snowballs at each other. What are you doing? To see what is going on in ...
Tech Team Alaska Collective First Release
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in General, Tech Team | No Comments »As part of this Collective, we have changed the way we release tech updates to the site. For the first time ever, we are rolling updates into release packages. This makes it easy for everyone to see what has been ...
Kelly’s Two Pesos (Notes from the Fundraising Guru)
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 Posted in Finance, Planning | No Comments »(NOTE: Yes, Kelly is writing in the third person. But don’t get used to it!) This past Monday, June 9, 2008, Kelly of the Pattersons (aka, “KellyKarma” on CS) held an intensive fundraising workshop/exercise for all ACS Collective team members. Collective ...
Playing the numbers game
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Member Communications, Planning | No Comments »I admit it – as much as I love spontaneity in my personal life, I absolutely love a good plan when it comes to anything I am pursuing at work. So you can imagine my relief of finally getting my ...
Down Time, Groups, and New Members
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in General, Membership, Tech Team | No Comments »You may have noticed that CouchSurfing was having some problems over the past few days. If you got the "Site Temporarily Down" message every other time you tried to visit the site, you weren't alone. The start of ...
Collective Work Shifts Into High Gear
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Hey guys, I’m Ben Hanna, the new Web Content Coordinator for CouchSurfing.com. I will be helping Mandie out with member communications, organizing what you see online, and working on various other content oriented projects, like this blog. The collective house is ...
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