Knoxify

Every now and then there is some­one you meet that sparks enthu­si­asm, cre­ativ­ity, drive, and innovation…that per­son takes you or your project to the next level. Alex Oliver has been that guy for Knox­ify and now, he needs a boost from our fan base to take home the Young & Free Ten­nessee Spokesper­son gig.

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Over the past cou­ple of weeks we have posted con­tent that, in some eyes, posed a con­flict of inter­est. Let’s take a sec­ond to nav­i­gate a mine­field, shall we?

First, we’d like to point to our sta­tic Dis­clo­sure page. It has been in exis­tence for quite some time with lit­tle changes. Give it a review if you have time.

For a while now we, the authors and own­ers of Knoxify.com, have been strug­gling to define con­flicts of inter­est and how they’re going to shape our con­tent going for­ward. This site was started to show­case what makes Knoxville great and we have close to 600 posts fur­ther­ing that mis­sion. We pub­lish this blog as a labor of love which means we have day jobs to help keep the lights on.

Some of us are health­care pro­fes­sion­als, some are PR moguls, some are engi­neers, some are media peo­ple and some are real estate rock stars. From time to time the things that make Knoxville great land in our port­fo­lios as clients, friends, col­leagues, etc. When this hap­pens we have to walk a fine line.

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No ques­tion for today. Be safe if you have to travel and have fun if you’re off and get to play in the snow!

The Knox­ify crew would like to wish every­one a Happy New Year! Please drive safe and remem­ber that AAA of East Ten­nessee is offer­ing free rides and tows tonight (and early tomor­row morning).

Photo by dswinder

Merry Christ­mas and Happy New Year! Thanks to all of you that made our sec­ond year a suc­cess­ful one.

Photo by Mukum­bura.

Happy Birth­day to us! Happy Birth­day to us! Happy two year birth­day dear Knoxify!

It’s hard to believe that we’ve been churn­ing away at this site for nearly two years now. Time flies when you’re hav­ing fun inter­act­ing with the many peo­ple that call Knoxville home. We want to take this pixel space to dis­play a few stats, look back on our top sto­ries from 2009, and also give you a glimpse at what’s on the hori­zon for the site.

Stats
Unique vis­i­tors: 36,586
Pageviews: 130,326
Total # of pho­tos in flickr pool: 2,210

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Over the course of 2009 our read­ers left over 1,100 com­ments. Here’s a list of the Top 5 most com­mented sto­ries from the past year.

1. Best Pizza in Knoxville? (35)
2. Best Burger in Knoxville? (34)
3. Lost Your Job? Apply Inside (33)
4. Roman’s: REAL Pizza in Knoxville (27)
5. Power Strug­gle for Knoxville Social Media King? (26)

From the looks of it, Knoxville likes to talk about food, jobs and social media. Regard­less of the topic we appre­ci­ate each and every com­ment left on our site and want to thank every­one who added to the con­ver­sa­tion this year.

Pho­tog­ra­phy by pre­masagar

We have added a quiet North Knoxville neigh­bor­hood to our ‘hood guide port­fo­lio. Har­rill Hills, located in the heart of Foun­tain City, is a his­toric neigh­bor­hood that was estab­lished as the result of a part­ner­ship between a builder and Foun­tain City’s biggest gro­cer in the 1920s, A. Hale Franklin. To learn more about this neigh­bor­hood check out the com­plete guide here.

© 2009 Robert Stock­dale Pho­tog­ra­phy, All Rights Reserved.

Our lat­est addi­tion to the Knoxville Neigh­bor­hood Guide took us Far West, oth­er­wise known as the Town of Far­ragut. Fox Den is an upscale golf and coun­try club com­mu­nity that was orig­i­nally devel­oped in the late 1960s and 1970s and was con­sid­ered by some back in the day to be the most pres­ti­gious neigh­bor­hood in west Knox County.

© 2009 Robert Stock­dale Pho­tog­ra­phy, All Rights Reserved.

Let’s keep the give­away train mov­ing while it’s hot. Just like yes­ter­day, the first per­son to cor­rectly answer the Knoxville his­tory ques­tion below will win a pair (2) of tick­ets to the Knoxville Twes­t­i­val going down on Sep­tem­ber 10th at the Zoo. You must reply in the com­ments of this post and use your real e-mail address so we may con­tact you (if you win).

Con­grats to Back2Pennyrile for sub­mit­ting the cor­rect answer. It was Charles McClung and Kingston Pike.

In 1792 a sur­vey was com­mis­sioned for the pur­poses of con­struct­ing a high­way from the Knoxville Cour­t­house to the west­ern Knox County line. Who was com­mis­sioned to sur­vey the route, and what was the high­way even­tu­ally named?

All answers sub­mit­ted on Face­book, Twit­ter, or other Knoxify-specific accounts will not be counted in the contest.