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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

Top 10 Most Pop­u­lar Stories/Series

  1. Knoxville Neigh­bor­hood Guides. We have heard sto­ries that our ‘hood guides have con­vinced peo­ple to move to Knoxville sight unseen so we’re not sur­prised to see them at the top of the list.
  2. Lost Your Job? Apply Inside. This post gen­er­ated a ton of buzz includ­ing mul­ti­ple TV inter­views and hun­dreds of resumes land­ing in our inbox. We feel for­tu­nate that we got to help a few peo­ple land jobs dur­ing this tough economy.
  3. Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee Salary Data­base. A last minute addi­tion to our site, this brief story is a search mag­net. Inquir­ing minds want to know about salaries.
  4. How to live in Knoxville. Sure, we love Knoxville but we also know how to ruf­fle a few feath­ers now and then. Patrick’s post on liv­ing in Knoxville brought out the bound­ary lines in a few commenters.
  5. Best Place for a Hair­cut in Knoxville? Every­body needs a hair­cut, right?
  6. Did Pub­lix Buy Food City? Actu­ally, no they didn’t but the rumor we reported blew up the Google juices. How­ever, Pub­lix is look­ing for a home here.
  7. Knoxville’s best cof­fee shops. Our read­ers love to talk about coy­otes, food and cof­fee. It’s no sur­prise that this post is in the top 10.
  8. Best Pizza in Knoxville? We live in a town where pizza joints sue each other over cook­ing meth­ods. The 30+ com­ments on this story pro­vide good direc­tion on where to find the tasti­est slice.
  9. The New UT Foot­ball Locker Room. A pop­u­lar post but we were asked to take down the images we posted shortly after the story ran. Go Vols!
  10. Have you seen coy­otes in Knoxville? You knew it was com­ing. 80+ com­ments don’t lie, Knoxville has an abun­dance of coyotes.

If you fol­low us on Twit­ter you prob­a­bly know that we’re in the midst of a site redesign and brand­ing over­haul. We want to pro­vide you with more con­tent pre­sented in a user friendly way. We’re hop­ing our new lay­out will do the trick but we can’t reveal any­thing major just yet. Butttt, we can give you a sneak peek at our new logo that’s still in draft mode (hope­fully our design firm will for­give us for this).

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As we wrap up we’d like to say to all of our fam­ily, friends, read­ers, vis­i­tors and coy­otes, thanks for another great year! We’re look­ing for­ward to keep­ing the site going and giv­ing you more rea­sons to love Knoxville.

All the best and Merry Christ­mas,
The Knox­ify Crew

Photo by: tim­lewisnm