Social Networking 101

Thanks to MENTA the benefits of Social Networking has been unravelled and yarnsmith.co.uk now has a page on facebook and we are also attempting to "tweet". Sean Proctor ran a great beginners course on facebook, twitter, forums and blogs and how they can assist businesses. Now I may be a bit of a novice to all of this but it's actually quite exciting! The potential is amazing - facebook, which was only launched in 2004, is the third most visited site on the net! It celebrated 250 million people with accounts in July 09 - that's phenomenal. My only concern is time management - getting the balance right between updating blogs, tweets and facebook and making sure it doesn't take time from the vital things of life - like kids, husband, dog and ...............knitting.

And here, just because I hate to post a blog without a picture, this year's Melford Green Alpaca, (hand-dyed) being blocked into Polly Outhwaite's Kiri Shawl - really easy, and available from Ravelry