Posts tagged “news”
Change to the Folksy platform
This communication went out yesterday (Thurs 13th Oct 2011) by email to all makers and designers who have listed on Folksy in the last couple of years (unless you have unsubscribed from our emails). It outlines some of the changes we’re making for the re-launch in mid-November and how this affects people who use Folksy. [...]
News winner
So, this proved to be a bit more difficult to assess than I thought as we had a lot of ‘dubious’ comments. Having checked the IP addresses for the comments we’ve only counted one comment per IP address. This is not foolproof but it’s the best way we could manage the process and to make [...]
Vote for the news…
We had thirteen entries for the craft as news competition. We’ve enjoyed going through them and seeing what news story inspired the pieces – and there are a range of influences and interpretations making this all-the-more interesting as a project. Huge thankyous for those that took part. Laura from Robson and Mason (store :: blog) [...]
News Deadline…
image by: tenioman The News competition closes on the 9th – this Friday! Since the competition was launched on the 8th of Dec we’ve had lots of stories to go at. What have you chosen? If you haven’t seen the competition until now you still have time to enter. Post your entry to the “Make [...]
Putting ourselves about a bit
The Guardian mentioned Folksy in their “What Not To Miss in 2009” article (in the Freecycle bit) along with Etsy as Craft Superstores. Not sure about the ‘Superstore’ but it was nice to see we’re getting some greater awareness. I thought it may be worth mentioning things we’ve been doing to try to promote Folksy [...]
Making the News ~ Competition
News is communicated in lots of different ways. Through images, which often become iconic (think of Margaret Thatcher waving out of the window at No. 10 as she was ousted, or sunshine in the artic for global warming stories), through satire, such as cartoons (I love Martin Rowson’s work) and of course through text. Wouldn’t [...]