=20 AANR Weekly Report for December 29, 2006<br>=20<br>Erich Schuttauf, Executive Director<br>Best Wishes for a Happy New Year in 2007!!!<br>We want to wish all members who make AANR the credible voice of reason our very best for a happy and prosperous New Year. As a reminder, the AANR office will close today at noon and remain closed until Tuesday, January 2, as we celebrate with our families.=20<br>Here Comes the Fun!! AANR Convention 2007 at The Willamettans =96 Make reservations now<br>This week the office was treated to a =93sneak peak=94 of the keynote speak= er that the Willamettans has arranged for the 2007 AANR Convention, and we can tell you that it 05 be the most interesting person yet! We won=92t =93ste= al their thunder=94 by revealing it here. But we WILL tell you that you should make your reservations to attend NOW if you haven=92t already done so, as spaces will be filling fast given the slate of speakers, activities, and great food planned as part of this celebration.=20<br>For your convenience, we will be including a PDF version of the Willamettans=92 registration form on the AANR website within the very near future.=20=20 =20<br>AANR.com gets boost in December traffic from Forbes, Google Search Engine<br>This month the number of visitors to the aanr.com website was among the strongest of the year. By midnight on Sunday, the number of pages downloaded from the site in December alone will total over 275,000. This means more people are learning about your clubs and nude recreation.=20<br>Increasingly, the Google search engine has been sending us a considerable number of visitors each day, thanks to some modifications by our webmaster, Captain Jack. We also got a lift this month from the Forbes magazine article in the December 25th issue. Another interesting statistic: More than one in three visitors to aanr.com bookmark it for a future visit.<br>———————————————————=20<br>Linda Berry, Director of Publications<br>Happy New Year to all from Linda, Lynn, Martha, and Angie.=20<br>WILL YOU NEED BROCHURES IN 2007? If you know in advance of trade shows, festivals, music fests, etc. where you will need AANR brochures, please let me know so that we can make sure w= e have a supply on hand for you.=20<br>———————————————————=20=20<br>Carolyn Hawkins, Public Relations Coordinator=20<br>Publicity<br>St Pete Times is doing an article on Nudist Clothing Stores i.e. Under the Sun as well as the stores at some of the resorts. No scheduled print date.<br>We are also working with a show called =93Spotlight On.=94<br>We salute The Sequoians on a great PR piece which was picked up in over a half dozen news outlets. Several quotes from AANR were included in the articles. Check out the link for Contra Costa Times <a href=http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/email/news/16306191.htm>http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/email/news/16306191.htm</a> &lt;<a href=http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/email/news/16306191.htm>http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/email/news/16306191.htm</a>&gt;=20<br>Jacksonville Times Union story ran December 16 =96 check out link <a href=http://cgi.jacksonville.com/cgi-bin/printit.cgi?story=3DZZNOSTORYZZ>http://cgi.jacksonville.com/cgi-bin/printit.cgi?story=3DZZNOSTORYZZ</a><br> BROCHURES WANTED The cruise is approaching, so if you would like your club brochures displayed, please send approximately 30 to the AANR office attention Caroly= n Hawkins<br>Calling all clubs Do you have humorous ideas about a potential =93fight=94 or =93encounter=94= between nudists or between nudists and clothed people that could give rise to a funny story or cartoon? It=92s open season on this topic as we are working= on a couple of ideas for a cartoon that 05 run in a future issue of The Bulletin and 05 assist a journalist with a related assignment.=20=20<br>Feel free to get creative. We will award an AANR Tee shirt and ball cap to the winning idea. We need your ideas no later than January 6th. Have fun!!<br>Happy new year I wish you the best for a Happy New Year.<br>———————————————————=20<br>Patricia Orner, Government Affairs Coordinator is on vacation but will return on January 2, 2007.<br> –=20 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.0/609 – Release Date: 12.29.2006 16:48 =20<br><br> </td>