Business

In case this hasn't been clear, I am not a media outlet. A lot of bloggers have written about how they'd like to be approached by publicists and a lot of discussion has ensued about how the publicity landscape online is different from the one in traditional media. Enough discussion's been had on this topic,...
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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 April 13th, 2010. Many weeks ago I promised to write about opportunities. I specifically promised Alice, who also writes for Make and Meaning. I'd written a post on my blog in response to Diane's M&M post about Free,...
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This post was originally published on the now-retired Make & Meaning blog on January 16th, 2010. So I've been getting these press releases from the Craft and Hobby Association. They've been arriving with increasing frequency and a directly proportional increase in my feeling of annoyance. Why, oh why, are the...
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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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I was reading this article about EduPunk in The Tyee yesterday, and it got me thinking. (Ironically, something else I thought was that I wanted more thoughtful meat, and more concrete history and policy in that article.) For every formal job I've ever had, I've been either over- or inappropriately credentialed. I have a bachelor's...
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Kirsty Hall shared a link to a must-read article by a software developer who tells the story of his recent experience hiring an artist who also happened to be a champion and evangelist of his product. He hired the artist to help with customer support, and together they crafted a job description and schedule...
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All I really want to say is that I hope the people at Hello Craft invite me to next year's Summit of Awesome. Because the one last week was fantastic. I've got my work mojo back. And there are lots of ideas I want to tell you about. But for now, I'm just going to sum up...
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I haven't written about copyright here in a long time, but you all know it's my pet obsession, right? Whenever I tumble down its rabbit hole I end up growing and shrinking and losing track of reality until I eventually claw my way out – bloody, exhausted and filthy. Thankfully, when Sister Diane asked me...
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Money's been at the front of my brain lately. I need to make more, and stat. I'm in one of those dry spells that always come 'round at some point or another in creative business. I'm not panicking; I know well enough that eventually it rains. Still. I've called all my feelers back from...
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