Posts Tagged ‘ Twitter ’

So you heard about that whole kerfuffle last week, when Urban Outfitters was accused of ripping off an indie crafter's jewelry design? If this is news to you, read the crafter's post, the tweeter's post about it all going viral, Regretsy's follow-up, and Urban Outfitter's eventual response. In sum, what happened was that a maker...
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This was an odd year for me. I started out with a job, left that job in February to go back to freelancing, and am ending the year doing the majority of my work in crochet-related projects, which was never my goal but which makes me happy all the same, despite my desire to...
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When I went to sleep on Friday night I had 535 Facebook friends. Today I have 416. I know each of those 416 people. Some are close friends, some old classmates, some relatives, some acquaintances, many are crafters and colleagues. I do not know the 119 people I unceremoniously unfriended yesterday. I may have met a...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on May 21st, 2010. I can't think of any crafty projects I've taken on in the last few years that I didn't document online in some way. I realized the other day that I have a pretty solid toolkit...
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing author Shannon Okey on Twitter* as part of her blog tour to promote her new book, The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design. We had so much fun, and such a productive conversation, that I forgot to do the giveaway we'd planned. D'oh.
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Shannon Okey has written a lot of books, but I admit I'm the most excited about the one she's just self-published. It's called The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design, and, well, its topic is obvious. She's just started a blog tour to promote the book (see the schedule, below), and next Tuesday, July...
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Paul over at the Make and Meaning group blog asked me to let the contributors know how to set up Twitterfeed to automatically tweet on their personal Twitter account when they write a new post on the blog, and I figured that since I already wrote it in an email I might as well...
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Twitter's struck again, this time with groundhogs. Go get Planetjune's pattern for an amigurumi groundhog. Join the group on Ravelry (you don't have to, no worries). Swipe the badge and put it on your blog (hosting it on your own server, please). Crochet a groundhog by 2nd February. Don't name yours Ned Ryerson, because I'm going to name mine...
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Something occurred to me out of the blue today: during my last few months as editor of Interweave Crochet, as the company was beginning to focus more on the possibilities presented by online tools and social media, I wanted nothing to do with any of it in my work as editor. Crazy, hey? As you...
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Continuing my informal series on small business social media use, I thought it's about time we look at some concrete examples. Or, more specifically, at a concrete example. As a minor update, I've been told that some folks at TNNA have been following the conversation over here. I'm very glad to hear that, and I...
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