Knitting Website Meeting. March 24, 2009.
In Attendance: Ms. Catherine, Ms. Tam, Ms. Perrine, Chantel.
Website Address: http://www.bplknits.synthasite.com
Reach out to other BPL knitting groups—esp for kids and teens.
Write book reviews of knitting books (non-fic, and fic). Freebies from publishers for reviewed books?
Possible links: sites w/ free knitting patterns
Host a knitalong! Mystery knitalong.
Guide to how read pattern/abbrev. Guide.
Possible Topics of Discussion
v Name of Website—Change it? (BPL’s young knitters, J 746.432 Crew)
v Turn front page into a blog? Opportunities for knitters to submit Guest Posts. Generate searchable tags.
v Online Profiles
o Profile names/aliases.
o “Meet the Knitters”—survey of knitting and non-knitting related questions.
o Personal galleries—all of your projects grouped together. Links to patterns used, describe yarn used, publish pattern if you made it up, etc.
o Avatars. http://www.faceyourmanga.com.You need an e-mail address to send finished mangatar to. Tip: Check your spam filters!
5 Very Simple Ways to Create an Avatar. (http://mashable.com/2008/10/27/simple-create-avatar/)
v Pictures—Giving people credit for their work. Attribution licenses.
· http://www.creativecommons.org. Everything here is available to use in any not-for-profit way you can think of.
o http://compfight.com/. A flickr search tool. All images protected under Creative Commons attribution license.
