| This blog is written by Martin Sojka | 175 entries so far |
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10,000 Projects Happy Dance
Hey Dick, Debbie challenged me too.. while we were chatting yesterday; she mentioned something ab...
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Small But Useful Navigation Updates
Hey odie, yup I’m like a little kid in a candy store ha ;) As you may noticed I moved HR an...
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PRESS RELEASE: LumberJocks.com Grows to More Than 10,000 Projects
For immediate release LumberJocks.com Grows to More Than 10,000 Projects; Now Officially the B...
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CENTRALIZED ACCOUNT SYSTEM: Our Family Of Sites Have Merged!
Heeey, this is major news and major new feature. Seems a lot of you enjoy all 3 of our sites so t...
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LumberJocks Road To 10,000 Projects!
Woo hoooo, yesterday was a very special day:We have officially reached 10,000 (TEN THOUSAND) proj...
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Get Tough Challenge with Gorilla Glue #3: And The Winners Are...
Gorilla Glue has challenged LumberJocks to build anything for enjoying the great outdoors using j...
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Get Tough Challenge with Gorilla Glue #2: Last Call
Don’t forget that tomorrow – September 1st – is Gorilla Glue Challenge deadline...
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JUST MARRIED (UPDATED -> Photos)
Yesterday was our special day and everything was just GREAT! Wedding photos coming soon ;))) ...
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Schummie Fund Raiser - Help A Fellow Woodworker Realize His Dream
A few weeks ago Al Navas shared a very nice idea with me. He was touched by a case of one of our ...
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Get Tough Challenge with Gorilla Glue #1: Announcement
LumberJocks, can you get tough? LumberJocks.com is proudly hosting the Gorilla Glue Challenge....
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Survey Closed And Winners Announced
I would like to once again thank everyone who has taken the time to participate in our survey! Gu...
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My Town Tour - Brezno, Slovakia
I’d like to invite you to a brief tour of Brezno – nice small town in the heart of Sl...
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Last Call For Survey Participants
I would like to thank everyone who has already participated in our survey. Providing us with dem...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2008 #4: And The Winners Are...
Our great Summer 2008 LumberJocks Woodworking Awards are over so allow me to officially announce ...
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New Contests Page
Just a brief update… I have added new (and highly requested) Contests tab to the main navig...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2008 #3: Cast Your Votes
WOW… this is going to be tough. We have 58 entries in One Man's Junk and 26 entries in Serv...
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IMPORTANT: Awards Update
I guess we have new LumberJocks Murphy’s Law and it’s official: If anything can go...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2008 #2: One Week Left
Friendly reminder to all who want to submit the entries to our Summer Awards. There is just one w...
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Help us make LumberJocks even better!
Take part in our LumberJocks Survey! Please take the time to complete our short survey of 20 easy...
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PRESS RELEASE: 5000 Members – LumberJocks Thanks you!
For immediate release LumberJocks.com has reached a new milestone with 5000 registered woodwor...
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5,000 LumberJocks - Thank You!
It’s time to celebrate our big milestone – 5,000 LumberJocks!You’re the bes...
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Thanks To Our Sponsors #3: July 2008
It’s time for our periodic note of thanks to the LumberJocks advertisers (new ones are bolded): ...
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Blog Series Browsing Made Easy
Did you ever wonder how many blog series have been started by LumberJocks? Now you can find the e...
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Want To Get Noticed - With FREE Advertising?
Straight from our Ad Team... Want to get noticed? Do you have a woodworking related busines...
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LumberJocks On Facebook, Myspace...
We now have LumberJocks profiles and groups on the popular social networking sites. So if youR...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2008 #1: Announcement
It’s time to get busy and creative again… Summer 2008 edition of the LumberJocks Wood...
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Thanks To Our Sponsors #2: June 2008
It’s time for our periodic note of thanks to the LumberJocks advertisers (new ones are bolded): ...
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What's Your Dream Prize?
The summer edition of the LumberJocks Woodworking Awards is fast approaching and it’s time ...
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Thanks To Our Sponsors #1: May 2008
Together with the addition of new page listing all advertisers, I’d like to start tradition...
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Integrate LumberJocks Into Your Netvibes, iGoogle And Website
I have great news for you if you’re using one of the popular personalized homepage services...
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Do You Enjoy LumberJocks? Post The Review...
Maybe you know the StumbleUpon.com – it’s a great way to discover new websites based ...
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Woodworking Safety Video Challenge #2: And The Winners Are...
6 great videos have been posted in our Woodworking Safety Video Challenge in partnership with The...
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Advertising Policy - What's Crossing The Line?
My head is still spinning after adding the new site posting rules. Everything seems to be clear, ...
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Woodworking Safety Video Challenge #1: Announcement
The Wood Whisperer has recently announced the first annual Woodworker's Safety Week: May 5 –...
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We Crossed 200,000 Comments!
This was veeeery fast – we were at 100,000 comments only 150 days ago and now we have cross...
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Get Published - Bookcase Challenge #6: And The Winners Are...
LumberJocks raised the bar again with over 50 entries in our Bookcase Challenge. You proved that ...
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New Posting Rules
As you may noticed I’ve added new posting rules to the site. You can see red “View th...
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Get Published - Bookcase Challenge #5: Just 4 Days To Go
Don’t forget that the entry deadline of our Bookcase Challenge is on Sunday.. so there are ...
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Video Tutorial: Using Project Card Widgets
In this video tutorial we’re going to insert the project card widget into the sample blog e...
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Call For Wider Adoption Of Project Card Widgets
To be honest, I really believed that our latest cool feature – Project Card Widgets –...
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Easy Switching Between Sites
Many of you noticed that I added small logos to the header – for easy switching between our...
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4,000 LumberJocks
WOW, we reached new milestone today – 4,000 LumberJocks... and the family keeps growing. ...
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Embeddable Project Cards For Easy Sharing
Yes, yes, today is my birthday… thanks for the post Debbie. And here’s my birthday gi...
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HomeRefurbers.com Is LIVE!!!
Any joking aside… this is one super serious announcement! We have the new kid on the block,...
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Get Published - Bookcase Challenge #4: Questions & Answers
Here are the frequently asked questions answered by Glen Huey, Senior Editor of Popular Woodworki...
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The Truth About The LumberWhisperer Magazine
Yes, yes.. I’m one evil man, Zuki ;) I started it all with these few lines in the email to ...
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LumberJocks and Wood Whisper Joint Venture
One of the biggest announcements ever for both TheWoodWhisperer.com and LumberJocks.com: the star...
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Get Published - Bookcase Challenge #3: Video Tutorial
This is so exciting – New era at LumberJocks.com begins right now – the era of video ...
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Get Published - Bookcase Challenge #2: Announcement
Ever wondered how to become published? How to see your unique creation on the pages of your favor...
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Get Published - Bookcase Challenge #1: Coming Soon!
We’re at it again – it’s Challenge time!! And we’re raising the bar again...
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LumberJocks Got New Look
Few days ago, I decided to update the LumberJocks look. The header was becoming too busy with all...
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Leap Day Reviews Challenge #2: Winners
Wow, this short challenge far exceeded my expectations – almost 100 new product reviews hav...
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Leap Day Reviews Challenge #1: Announcement
Wondering how to make this Leap Day special? I have the answer ;) Go to your workshop, pick on...
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Warning: Highly Addictive! New Interactive 3D LJ Galleries
Did you ever want to present your woodworking creations in an exciting interactive 3D viewer? Wel...
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Drawing For The Mark's Memorial Project
First, I’d like to thank all of you for the participation in the this wonderful project and...
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Reviews Added To The Home Page And Shuffle
Five most recent reviews are now featured on the Home page... ... and five random reviews ...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 #7: Interview With The Winners
How does success in our Winter Awards feel? Gary: It feels strange. I am honored that so...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 #6: And The Winners Are...
Our successful Winter 2008 LumberJocks Woodworking Awards are over so allow me to officially anno...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 #5: The Voting Is Over...
... and the anticipation is building → all of the results will be displayed tomorrow at 6 AM...
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Tool Review Challenge #2: Winners...
What an impressive start of the LumberJocks Reviews – 99 reviews in the first 19 days since...
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News From The "Advertising Department"
January was the first month of our revamped advertising offer so I’d like to inform you abo...
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HELP NEEDED: Name For The "HomeJocks" Site
With LumberJocks expanding and GardenTenders growing so nice, I think it’s the right time t...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 #4: Cast Your Votes
January has been an entertaining and inspiring month, as the entries for our two Awards categorie...
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No Messy Blogs Anymore
Here comes another nice upgrade that will make your blogging on LumberJocks even more enjoyable. ...
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LumberJocks Reviews Got Product Index
I have just added Product Index feature to our Reviews section. It allows you to see all of the r...
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Tool Review Challenge #1: Announcement
”Reviews By Users” and ”Users You Can Trust” Wow! What a wonderful res...
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MAJOR NEWS: New Reviews Section!
Woo hoo… it’s time to introduce another great new feature on our site. The idea of ha...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 #3: Submissions Are Open
Let me announce that the submissions are now open for our LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 in ...
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In Memoriam
I’d like to thank Karson and Greg for the In Memoriam page idea. I’ve just created it...
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LumberJockVille #2: Increase Industry
I officially renamed our virtual LJ city to LumberJockVille. It’s so funny so far…. I...
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
I’d like to wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you – my LumberJocks...
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LumberJockVille #1: Become New Inhabitant
Dan has invited us to his virtual mini city Galoottonia. I found it pretty cool and fun… an...
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Help Needed: Participate In The LumberJock Profile Survey
We’re working hard on the revamped advertising approach and want to have everything ready b...
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Streetball Winners!!!
Heeeey, we have just won streetball Xmas tournament in our small town (there were teams from o...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 #2: PRESS RELEASE: LumberJocks Announces Winter Woodworking Event
For immediate release LumberJocks Calling Woodworkers to Compete for Special Prizes The Gra...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 #1: Announcement
It’s official! Get building for our current semi-annual Woodworking Awards. This year we ar...
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We've Moved to New Hosting Provider
During last 2 weeks I’ve been testing services by relatively new hosting provider – S...
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Happy Tagsgiving
Yes, we have Happy Tagsgiving here on the LumberJocks! I’ve just released major improvement...
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PRESS RELEASE: LumberJocks.com Announces Latest Membership Statistics
For immediate release LumberJocks.com Reaches New Milestone In just over a year and a hal...
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Big Announcement: GardenTenders.com Is Here!
What a cool day. I have name day here in Slovakia today and there is an old saying that you shoul...
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Position at LumberJocks.com - Advertising Manager
As Debbie mentioned in the eMag, we are now looking for an Advertising Manager to contact compan...
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LumberJocks Web Widgets Are Here!
I’m happy to let you know that we finally have trendy LumberJocks web widgets! What are ...
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A Moment For Our First Forum Sponsor
I’d like to say thanks to our first forum sponsor – Lee A. Jesberger. Lee decided to ...
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Woodworkers Help Save the Children #4: LumberJocks Unite! (comic)
Thanks to John - gizmodyne for this special comic! ... you can get the flyer here
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$500 Donated and Issue With The Donor Badges
Well, let me say THANK YOU! I didn’t expect this kind of response to my donations request (...
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Ready To Support LJ.com By Donating? ;)
Based on your suggestions, I’ve finally added Donations page! So now you can support Lumber...
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Virtual Dining Table Challenge #3: And The Winners Are...
Last month, the Virtual Dining Table Challenge was presented, with the support of Popular Woodwor...
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Rambling About Vision and New Site Features
I was asked to write about the LumberJocks.com vision/mission statement in the sketchup repoistor...
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Revamped Print Layouts
We’re finishing few days full of little upgrades and new features with something very valua...
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Enhanced Picture Viewer
As Bill noticed I have upgraded our picture viewer. Problem with the prev and next buttons was th...
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Woodworkers Help Save the Children #3: Ready, Set, GO!
It took some time to finish all the details… but now it’s time to say it loud: WeR...
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Stickies: Attention Please!
As you may noticed we have new button on our colorful header’s toolbar. It’s name is ...
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Virtual Dining Table Challenge #2: Thank You
I’d like to thank all of the participants in our Virtual Dining Table Challenge. We have fi...
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New Search Refinements
As many of you noticed, our search results were becoming cluttered by the Store pages. After some...
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Two New Forums Launched - Safety and Design
Let me invite you to visit our two new kids in the LumberJocks woodworking forums family: Safe...
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Woodworkers Help Save the Children #2: Approved
It’s Official!! We will definitely be helping to “Save The Children”. ...
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Autosaving Drafts - No Need to Be Nervous Anymore
It happened multiple times in past… and probably to you as well, at least once. You spent 1...
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Virtual Dining Table Challenge #1: Announcement
View all current entries In order to continue challenging us to develop our creativity and woo...
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Woodworkers Help Save the Children #1: Idea
Our Summer Woodworking Awards Event has come and gone and the Award recipients are already enjoyi...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2007 #5: Winners Announced
Our successful Summer 2007 LumberJocks Woodworking Awards are over so allow me to officially anno...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2007 #4: Last Day to Enter
Yes.. we’re on the count down. This is the last chance to enter your project(s) to the Summ...
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Better Home for Each LumberJock
You can finally enjoy the result of my latest work. We got MUCH IMPROVED personal home pages here...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge #5: Wrapping Up the Challenge
Glen Huey has just wrapped up our Spring Thorsen Table Challenge in great blog article. He ev...
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Woodworking Chats #2: "Selling Woodworking Items on eBay" with Dan Walters
Dan has agreed to host our second chat. Here are the details: Topic: Selling Woo...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2007 #3: Help Us Promote the Awards With New Banner
I’ve prepared nice little banner for our Summer 07 Awards. It is now displayed on The Wood ...
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Woodworking Chats #1: Veneering with David
As Debbie mentioned in our latest eMag issue – on Sunday, July 8th, David will be hosting ...
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New Home Page Tells More About Us
I got an idea last week to make our home page more inviting to new visitors. The idea was to intr...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2007 #2: Help Spread The Word With Our Eye-Catching Flyer
Exciting news!!! We now have our official Summer 2007 Woodworking Awards flyer: I bet it w...
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Dress for Summer
As announced by Debbie in our first eMag issue we are having our special Dress for Summer week he...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge #4: Winner Announcement
Popular Woodworking has announced the winner of the Thorsen Table Challenge. Before we get to ...
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Mini-Browser or Asset Manager on Steroids
I know we all love fancy time-savers.. don’t we? How would you love accessing your pictures...
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The International Day of the LumberJock
Let it be known that today, June 12th, shall now be known as The International Day of the LumberJ...
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Major Upgrade: Wider pages, Videos, Larger Pictures
I’ve managed to finish some important upgrades today. Here they are in a list: wider p...
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LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2007 #1: Ready, Set, Go!
It’s getting hot again… yes, the first reason is that the summer is coming but the se...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge #3: Last Day Reminder
As you know this is the last day (in CDT time) to submit your entry into the Thorsen Table Challe...
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Photos from Cuba Trip - Finally!
We have finally selected, cropped, enhanced and uploaded some of the photos from our Cuba trip to...
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Now We Have Dedicated Woodworking Store
Hello fellow LumberJocks, I have another great news to share with you. I’ve just finished t...
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Workshop Video Tour Challenge #2: And the Winners Are...
Bob Babcock Brandonp Caliper Cflansbaum Chadnuesmeyer Dataman David DocK16 Don ...
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Start Building Your Favorites List!
Completion of this neat little feature took me longer than expected. I wanted to raise my bar as ...
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LumberJocks Bloggers Rock!
And I thought there were only few bloggers in the woodworking community… Thank you for p...
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Help Me Pick 2 Summer Awards Themes
Here is the poll with the top candidates for the final 2 Summer 2007 LJ Awards themes (don’...
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Edit Your Blog Settings
Let me notify you about another new and useful feature. It’s been born out of necessity sin...
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LJ Toolbar Adds Radio with Top Woodworking Podcasts
First let me give you short update about our LumberJocks toolbar stats. It has already been insta...
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LumberJocks Podcast is Here!
This is exciting news. Few weeks ago I’ve mentioned the idea of starting our own LumberJock...
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Workshop Video Tour Challenge #1: Announcement
Now it’s your chance to learn more about posting videos online and try it yourself. Togethe...
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It all started with one...
... and now it’s ... fasten your seat belts for a smooth ride to 11.111 ;) How ex...
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I'm leaving for vacation
Hey fellow LumberJocks, I’d like to inform you that I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow...
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Now you can remove wrong posts in first 60 minutes
Time for another small yet vital update. Projects, blog entries and forum topics are now removabl...
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Blog Tags and Topic Tags are Here!
Blog entries and forum topics are now taggable too. Tags are becoming more and more important as ...
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New Shirt Designs
Let me introduce two new sections in our Apparel Store: You know you’re a LumberJock, if...
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Could We Celebrate My Birthday with 1.000 Projects, Please?
I’ve just noticed that we’re so close to 1.000 projects right on my 27th birthday ...
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LumberJocks Shuffle - Another Cool Way to Enjoy the Site
I know, I know.. the pulse is an excellent way to keep track of the new posts on the LumberJocks....
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Learn How to Embed Pictures
Our new guide titled “Embedding Pictures” is finally here: ”This guide cover...
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My Favorite Way to Browse the Site
I’ve posted this as a comment to my Personalize Your Pulse View blog entry but I think it&#...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge #2: And the Creative Juices are Flowing
So let’s see who is already sharing ideas and lessons in our Thorsen Side Table Challenge: ...
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Personalize Your Pulse View
Could our Pulse get even better? You bet! Let me introduce our new powerful Pulse filter: ...
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Important: Moving to new server on Sunday at 1am EDT
Since we need to get ready for the Challenge announcement in the Popular Woodworking newsletter t...
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The LumberJocks Toolbar: Your Personal Assistant!
I know this will not help to cure us – LumberJocks addicts. It’s like your personal a...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge #1: Announcement
Thanks to the creativity and hard work of Karson, Mark and Michael we are starting our first uniq...
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The Wood Whisperer Wears it Proud
Hey, look who is wearing proud our LumberJocks shirt in the Episode 12: Thanks, Marc!
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Let's Learn How to Write Again
I know you have all been waiting for this moment. And now it’s here. It’s time to get...
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Anybody experiencing site browsing problems?
Obi is reporting frequent problems browsing around the site i.e. Cannot Locate server or page can...
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Obi here is the Apron
Our apparel collection has just been expanded with the new LumberJocks Apron Enjoy!
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Let's celebrate 500 LumberJocks with new Stores page and upgraded server
As Debbie has already noted I’ve added new Stores page dedicated to promoting our apparel c...
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Blog Series for Addictive Writers
I’ve been working on this new feature silently during last few late evenings. I got the ide...
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Interview with the Winter 2007 Woodworking Awards Winners
Mark DeCou – Winner of the Best Craftsmanship categoryRoger Strautman – Winner of...
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Finally, initial help pages are here
As you may already know, I’m working together with Ethan on our help pages these days. And ...
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Site blog discontinued and replaced with my personal LJ blog
I’d like to inform you that I’ve decided to discontinue the updates on the original L...
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Another facelift time!
It’s another design update time! I’ve decided to celebrate our 1st birthday with the ...
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LumberJocks Birthday: ONE year old
Our LumberJocks site turned one yesterday! Dick has posted Happy Anniversary entry yesterday and ...
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Major Pulse upgrade and "Who's Online"
Finally the BIG upgrade is here. I’ve spent last 3 weeks researching, brainstorming, design...
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Winter Awards finished, prizes sent
Uff.. it was really time consuming to order and send all prizes. However it should be expected wh...
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LumberJocks & The Wood Whisperer combo shirts are here
During the recent chat with Marc – better known as the world famous video star The Wood Whi...
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Facelift Time
I’m finally working from my office few hours per day after spending almost 3 months at home...
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Winter 2007 LumberJocks Woodworking Awards winners announced
Our successful Winter 2007 LumberJocks Woodworking Awards are over and the winners have been anno...
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Blog entry or forum topic?
There is an interesting discussion going in the latest Mike’s blog entry Jigs and Suggestio...
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Pulse by sections, more computer power and added ads
I’d like to inform you about three very important site updates. Here we go: Feel the Pul...
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Still growing too
Scott’s still growing… blog entry about his growing projects list inspired me to shar...
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Revamped LumberJocks apparel collection
I’d like to invite you to revamped LJ merchandise store to browse through our updated, fres...
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Vote and win stylish LumberJocks shirt
Our Winter Woodworking Awards entry deadline is over and we have ended with 47 in Best Creativity...
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How to avoid tiny conflicts
I’d like to react to tiny issue that happened between Dick and Cabinetman yesterday. (No...
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Shirt design variations - which one do you prefer?
Hey Jocks, how is your weekend going? I’ve prepared some alternatives of our coming shir...
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Fine Woodworking decided to sponsor our Woodworking Awards
I have another great news for all LumberJocks. Today I was contacted by the Marketing Manager of ...
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Awards deadline is one week away and we're raising the prizes
I’d like to remind you all that our Winter 2007 LumberJocks Woodworking Awards entry deadli...
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Handy Feel the Pulse link
Recently added LumberJocks Pulse page is very popular so I’ve decided to add handy Feel the...
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Woodshop News goes digital
In case you dont’t know Woodshop News is now offering their magazine in digital version as ...
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T-Shirt series draft - you know you're a LumberJock!
Ha.. I’ve just had a little creative moment and look at the result: I think that our...
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Membership Levels
I would like to spice up the LumberJocks membership by adding the Membership Levels based on the ...
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Private Messages are here
Private Messages have been the most requested feature in the recent weeks. Now you can enjoy them...
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Private Messages in works...
Hey, I’m working on the Private Messages these days. Midnight is approaching here so I n...
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Plans for the near future or how to stay focused
As some of you may noticed in the recent days our site’s grow doesn’t have only advan...
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300 LumberJocks and Counting
Hey Jocks, I don’t know if you noticed but we reached another nice milestone. Dave becam...
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New Video Episode by The Wood Whisperer
Marc mentioned our LumberJocks site as well as our Winter Awards in his latest video podcast epis...
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Initial Woodworking Awards Categories
As you know I’m working on the new format of the LumberJocks Woodworking Awards. Today my g...
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Winter 2007 Awards in Works
Hi jocks, I’ve been thinking about the concept of the contests at LJ in the recent days....
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Blog Series
- Get Published - Bookcase Challenge - 6 parts
- Get Tough Challenge with Gorilla Glue - 3 parts
- Leap Day Reviews Challenge - 2 parts
- LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2007 - 5 parts
- LJ Woodworking Awards - Summer 2008 - 4 parts
- LJ Woodworking Awards - Winter 2008 - 7 parts
- LumberJockVille - 2 parts
- Thanks To Our Sponsors - 3 parts
- Thorsen Side Table Challenge - 5 parts
- Tool Review Challenge - 2 parts
- Virtual Dining Table Challenge - 3 parts
- Woodworkers Help Save the Children - 4 parts
- Woodworking Chats - 2 parts
- Woodworking Safety Video Challenge - 2 parts
- Workshop Video Tour Challenge - 2 parts
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