The blankets tell the children how loved they are. (sadailynews)

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Permalink Reply by Laurie C. Hake on January 29, 2011 at 2:44pm

Hi Sandy:  All that is OK, BUT, you have some of us "old folks" that are not up to the technology and will be left out of what is happening.  As long as this site is kept up, we'll be happy - just don't leave us in the "dust"!!!  Love, Laurie

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Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on January 29, 2011 at 3:06pm

Yeah I hear you Laurie.  I'm on Facebook because two of my daughters spent 3 hours talking me into it.  It's rather like a "bulletin board" and it's how I keep in contact with a lot of the younger relations.  I have no problem also posting updates here so you can hear about it. :)  Just remind me as I have a VERY woolly brain usually. :)

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Permalink Reply by Donna Radu on January 29, 2011 at 3:08pm

Hi!  I, too, am feeling what Laurie is saying. 

I'm tech savvy myself - I'm known around the house as "Device Lady" ! - but my kids don't "approve" of my being on Facebook.  That medium belongs, I believe, to their generation, and I'm content to leave it to them. 

So, even though I have my own iPad, iPod (and soon iPhone, since Verizon will carry it starting February), Blackberry,  desktop, laptop, home wireless and mobile hotspot, I'm writing this to let you know not EVERYBODY uses Facebook.  Please do still keep in touch through the website.  Hearing from you, Ronda, gives us inspiration and (always) a smile!

P.S. If, with all she does, Ronda finds it easier to use Facebook, maybe some quotes from her Facebook page could make their way to the KAS website?

Thanks for listening!

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Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on January 29, 2011 at 3:40pm

That's exactly what I would do Donna, lift some quotes. I didn't see any when I was just there.

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Permalink Reply by Rachel A. on January 29, 2011 at 4:01pm

Thanks for checking, Jeanne;  I don't do Facebook either =).

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Permalink Reply by Mary Kristel Lokken on January 29, 2011 at 9:23pm

Gosh Donna - I have just the opposite feeling about facebook. In our family it brings generations together. I am friends with my 22 year-old son and many of his friends. I am friends with my aunts who are in their eighties and find the information on facebook enlightening. I am friends with my siblings and most of my many cousins, and many of their children, who are now having their own children. I am friends with my old friends from high school in Berkeley California and with new friends I meet every day in Italy.

 

And as of today I am also friends with Sandy! :-)

 

I agree that facebook should not replace this forum, however, I think it can be a great way to get the word out there. I re-post almost all news I see on this forum on my facebook page, and some of my friends have started making squares because of that.

 

I can't wait to be friends with Ronda, and many of you too! But watch out - I post a lot of stuff about our terrible prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi... be forewarned!

 

:-)

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Permalink Reply by Sandy McDonald on January 29, 2011 at 4:31pm

Oh good grief girls, that is the last thing that we want you think! 

It is just that Ronda's tasks are such that she does not spend time on the computer and in the forum.  She is quite by her own happy admittance not tech savvie either!  As I am sure you will agree it is very much in our interests that she allocates her 'KAS' time as she does strictly to getting blankets on children. 

However, recently, Erin and Sian (her daughters) have insisted she get on Facebook so that she can enjoy the photographs of the family.  She has now got an understanding of how to use it.  So it was my suggestion that if she had time and wanted to leave a message periodically with the growing Facebook membership, then it might be something she could do while she was on Facebook looking at photos of her grandchildren, for example.  Hence, my description of it being more efficient for her, using her 'leisure' time, so to speak, to post the odd message to some of the members. 

And on top of that we DO want to encourage people to join to our Facebook group.  The truth is that Facebook is HUGE.  It now has over 500,000,000 members.  The more members we have on Facebook and here goes the broken record again, the more knitters we attract, the more squares, the more blankets, the more warm children!!  I think you may have heard me say this a few times in the past!

We will use whatever medium we can in our pursuit of finding more wonderful, caring, generous members to knit for the children.  There are way too many that need our care to be selective in what we do.  The reality is that all four websites, twitter and Facebook have a place in doing this work.

However, nothing we ever do should or will undermine the forum, which is as I said in the USA group recently, remains the heart of KAS.

The last thing I, or Ronda for that matter, would ever want is to make our much loved forum members feel they are being left in the dust!

PS.  Donna, Facebook is rapidly moving into the business world.  It will not be the sole domain of the young generation for much longer!   Recent statistics suggest that its massive number of growing members are very much across the board and that Facebook Fan Pages which are being increasingly tailored for businesses are growing at a fantastic rate too. I have been getting my head around how to use a Fan Page and it is clear that this is an entirely new medium that anyone wanting to attract targeted clients, customers and in our case members for KAS, cannot afford to ignore. 

And now I must get to the KAS site and keep updating it in preparation for the publication of Knitting Today's special Blanket edition to be published on Monday.  Hope that even if it is a small article, it too will attract lots more knitters/crocheters.  Fingers crossed everyone!

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Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on January 29, 2011 at 4:40pm

Thanks Sandy.  I know Ronda is very busy and I'm sure she's allocating her energies wisely.  If I can just REMEMBER, I'll keep checking the Facebook site and I'll post anything Ronda adds to the KAS page.  Okay?

I am quite sure that anything important will end up here tout suite...verrry fast.  :)

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Permalink Reply by Enid Mary Shaw on January 29, 2011 at 4:50pm

you pretending to be a technophobe again, Jeanne?  :))

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Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on January 30, 2011 at 6:37am

Um actually Enid, I'm pretending to be someone with "Recall." :P A doctor once said to me "your memory is fine, it's your recall that is shot."  I tend to forget appointments too.  My super organized sis-in-law suggested I make lists. I said I lose them.  She suggested a master list. I said I have I lost that too. She got quite exasperated at that point, lol.  The one thing that works for me is writing something on the back of my hand, so far I haven't lost that!  My brain is like a vast library without a filing card system...few too many bonks on the head.  So a lot of people think I have a tattoo on my hand...I don't, it's just my latest list! :D

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Permalink Reply by Sandy McDonald on January 30, 2011 at 3:45pm

Jeanne, you are so comic.  Thank you for a great laugh today.  It reminds me of myself way too often.  Keys in the fridge, glasses that I cannot find on my head, half finished sentences LOL.  My family endure it!

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Permalink Reply by Erin van der Vyver on February 23, 2011 at 11:10pm

Hilarious!  If it's any consolation, I LIVE by the diary on my BlackBerry - I'd be totally lost without it!  Fetch one child at this time, the other at that, extra murals here, KAS distribution there, doula client meeting after that, wine tasting before... Memory (or perhaps it is a RECALL problem!!) is like a sieve...  Or perhaps it's that we are all FAR too busy and distracted these days?? LOL!
 
Ladies, thank you for all your input here.  I will definitely take up the task of lifting any comments my mum makes on Facebook and reporting them here...  I am trying to get a whole lot more disciplined and allocate a specific time at least once a month to post a message to all of you on the forum (have scheduled it in the BlackBerry!!!) so will keep you updated as much as possible as to what's going on in SA.  Also, with Lindi and Wandi on the forum now, we will be updating (hopefully) every Thursday morning (SA time)... We are all very excited that they have officially signed up to the forum and will be 'chatting' to you all directly!  Lindi and Wandi are two of the most wonderful, warm, caring and dedicated women on the planet (they fit in well, of course, with all you EQUALLY wonderful, warm, caring and dedicated KASers) - I know you are going to enjoy the comms with them...

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