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, a
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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
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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
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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 i
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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
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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
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In the couple of weeks since the Twitter fail I wrote about, I've had some very interesting conversations with people in the yarn industry about business use of social media, and specifically about th
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Today I had a most baffling exchange on Twitter. It was actually the most baffling exchange I've ever had on Twitter, and that's saying something. I spend a lot of time on Twitter. I've made friends t
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Yesterday, in a fit of bluntness, I let loose on Twitter an idea I've been simmering for a long time. If you've disabled commenting on your blog, I'm gonna go ahead and say you're not a blogger.
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I'll let myself sum it up for you, video style:
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