Alaska CSC Talent Show [Video]
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »In case it is not clear by now, there is not much “nightlife” out here in Homer, Alaska, save for really bad costume karaoke, playing pool at a scrubby but charming pub, bonfires with Chubby Bunny contests, Scrabble, “Netflix Night”, ...
Who Are We?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in General, Member Communications, Membership | No Comments »One of our goals at this collective is to enhance the user experience of a CouchSurfer. A general goal, but an important one none the less. When we began discussing different ways to accomplish this goal, we realized that we ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Welcome to the Collective!
Sunday, May 25th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Welcome to the Alaska Collective blog! This is going to be our informal communication channel to let everyone out in the CouchSurfing world know what is happening as the team of volunteer participants work their summer away in Homer, Alaska. ...
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