David Page & I have started our Holiday Sale promotion, and this project is keeping us very busy.
We are trying to hand-out 1,000 cards in 30 days, in hopes people will utilize the automated features.
Web Site: Has been improved and deserves a check: http://www.page-enterprises.net/
In the Meantime: Finishing touches on M w/H and the new play I've written called NETWORKING.
Ray Macon
Page Printing
404-643-8215
Monday, November 17, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Great Wacky Photos
I was researching some stuff this weekend and came across a photostream for Photographer Mattijn:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattijn/with/251462807/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattijn/with/251462807/
Friday, October 31, 2008
All Hallows Eve 2008 TREAT
What are you for Halloween?
Of course our Roommate Tippy-Toed (John---weighs all of 94 pounds and is a Size 0) is playing Tinkerbell.
We are going as Star Trekk guys who have captured TiNKeR-BELL (TNKR-BELL), an alien, and taking her back to the past.
Very funny. We can't even get her outta the bar much less the atmosphere of this planet to the Mother Ship!
Rented the costumes last night in a store filled with adults scrambling for ideas. I also have Spock ears!
We are going to some new swanky restaurant at 9pm.
What are you doing???
For a great new song go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Da3qrozMv4 and hear Marilyn Manson singing This Is Halloween from A Nightmare Before Christmas Re-Release!
Of course our Roommate Tippy-Toed (John---weighs all of 94 pounds and is a Size 0) is playing Tinkerbell.
We are going as Star Trekk guys who have captured TiNKeR-BELL (TNKR-BELL), an alien, and taking her back to the past.
Very funny. We can't even get her outta the bar much less the atmosphere of this planet to the Mother Ship!
Rented the costumes last night in a store filled with adults scrambling for ideas. I also have Spock ears!
We are going to some new swanky restaurant at 9pm.
What are you doing???
For a great new song go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Da3qrozMv4 and hear Marilyn Manson singing This Is Halloween from A Nightmare Before Christmas Re-Release!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
National Philanthropy Day
According to Wikipedia: One who practices philanthropy may be called a philanthropist. Although such individuals are often rich, people may perform philanthropic acts without possessing great wealth.
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I gave this speech this morning with the help of my fantastic BNI Group, the Buckhead Business Network International (10/28/2008):
Good Morning, I'm Ray Macon. Today we have no paragraphs of wisdom. Nothing to refer-to, or look-at, or read. We all know this stuff already! The Founder of BNI, Ivan Misner, is probably somewhere giving this same wisdom today, a lesson about the Rubber Chicken Network.
Today is one of those "Nationally Recognized Days" can anyone tell me what its themed? Today is a very big day for a very big industry in the USA. I'll give you a hint: fundraisers will benefit on this day.
Today is National Philanthropy Day. Fundraising is a big business in the United States. These people who spearhead such Non Profits are great salesmen and women and have no problem walking into the biggest skyscraper and asking the Biggest Company "Whose In Charge? We need..."
Today the Atlanta Kiwanis Club is sponsoring the event at the Georgia World Congress Center.
I'm going. I've volunteered. Why? Well, for starters, a group of great people like that, who are always planning events to help other people, need programs. They need posters, sandwich boards, thank-you notes. They need to know a printer who can save them money. More than anything, they need good hearted volunteers.
Ivan Misner, the Founder of BNI, recognized that some of his Inner Circle Friends were involved in some difficult professions---who did he know who could use their services? Referrals were hard to give to some of these friends! So he got out there, to the small clubs, worked with others in charity events, and raised money for causes.
He got invited to speak at a local business club, similar to the Kiwanis. This led to other opportunities. Many of these organizations are looking for speakers to fill their calendars.
Misner seized the opportunity, and so today we are doing an experiment for him.
Each of us are involved in Service Organizations, and I'd like us to list them. These are the Boy Scouts, the Atlanta Fundraising Professionals, what are the others?
(KIM BRINKMAN writes on Dry Erase Board)
Cub Scouts/ Boy & Girl Scouts/
These are great because you're sitting around watching them instruct your kids. You've tied that knot before. I tell you, men & women can get business this way, sharing the burden of boredom. Why not talk business? Ask "...what do you do for a living, Bob?"
Men & Women Against Domestic Violence
Volunteer at a place like this, and you'll make some friends. People are moved to "give up their stories". But when you hear about a person's struggle and really listen---they remember. What a better way to break through the 7 layers of trust, mention your business. These people have a compassion to help others. And they will help you.
Breast Cancer Walk
Last year I staked a place at the middle of the Finish Line on the Susan Komen Foundation 3-Day Walk from Athens to Atlanta. I clapped until my hands hurt. Women would hug me, and kiss me on the cheek. I didn't know who they were, but some of them gave me a set of tears.
By appreciating a struggle we become a part of it.
(BNI Group lists some other non-profits)
So you see, opportunity awaits each of us. I'd like to close today with a story:
Just two weeks ago I volunteered to hand-out water at a race/walk for charity. I worked shoulder-to-shoulder with a man who let me bid on his Organization's printing last season, but he didn't pick me to do his printing.
After our volunteer work was finished, he promised to let me bid again. I think this time I have a better chance.
I'm Ray Macon. Enjoy National Philanthropy Day.
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I gave this speech this morning with the help of my fantastic BNI Group, the Buckhead Business Network International (10/28/2008):
Good Morning, I'm Ray Macon. Today we have no paragraphs of wisdom. Nothing to refer-to, or look-at, or read. We all know this stuff already! The Founder of BNI, Ivan Misner, is probably somewhere giving this same wisdom today, a lesson about the Rubber Chicken Network.
Today is one of those "Nationally Recognized Days" can anyone tell me what its themed? Today is a very big day for a very big industry in the USA. I'll give you a hint: fundraisers will benefit on this day.
Today is National Philanthropy Day. Fundraising is a big business in the United States. These people who spearhead such Non Profits are great salesmen and women and have no problem walking into the biggest skyscraper and asking the Biggest Company "Whose In Charge? We need..."
Today the Atlanta Kiwanis Club is sponsoring the event at the Georgia World Congress Center.
I'm going. I've volunteered. Why? Well, for starters, a group of great people like that, who are always planning events to help other people, need programs. They need posters, sandwich boards, thank-you notes. They need to know a printer who can save them money. More than anything, they need good hearted volunteers.
Ivan Misner, the Founder of BNI, recognized that some of his Inner Circle Friends were involved in some difficult professions---who did he know who could use their services? Referrals were hard to give to some of these friends! So he got out there, to the small clubs, worked with others in charity events, and raised money for causes.
He got invited to speak at a local business club, similar to the Kiwanis. This led to other opportunities. Many of these organizations are looking for speakers to fill their calendars.
Misner seized the opportunity, and so today we are doing an experiment for him.
Each of us are involved in Service Organizations, and I'd like us to list them. These are the Boy Scouts, the Atlanta Fundraising Professionals, what are the others?
(KIM BRINKMAN writes on Dry Erase Board)
Cub Scouts/ Boy & Girl Scouts/
These are great because you're sitting around watching them instruct your kids. You've tied that knot before. I tell you, men & women can get business this way, sharing the burden of boredom. Why not talk business? Ask "...what do you do for a living, Bob?"
Men & Women Against Domestic Violence
Volunteer at a place like this, and you'll make some friends. People are moved to "give up their stories". But when you hear about a person's struggle and really listen---they remember. What a better way to break through the 7 layers of trust, mention your business. These people have a compassion to help others. And they will help you.
Breast Cancer Walk
Last year I staked a place at the middle of the Finish Line on the Susan Komen Foundation 3-Day Walk from Athens to Atlanta. I clapped until my hands hurt. Women would hug me, and kiss me on the cheek. I didn't know who they were, but some of them gave me a set of tears.
By appreciating a struggle we become a part of it.
(BNI Group lists some other non-profits)
So you see, opportunity awaits each of us. I'd like to close today with a story:
Just two weeks ago I volunteered to hand-out water at a race/walk for charity. I worked shoulder-to-shoulder with a man who let me bid on his Organization's printing last season, but he didn't pick me to do his printing.
After our volunteer work was finished, he promised to let me bid again. I think this time I have a better chance.
I'm Ray Macon. Enjoy National Philanthropy Day.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Clearing-up some small details
Today our softball practice was cancelled due to the standing water on the fields. It would have been our first practice; getting ready for the Hurricane Showdown Tournament in Ft. Lauderdale.
Anyway, now I've got plenty of time to go and workout. Also I figured I would use the day to get a bunch of stuff ready for Phillip King, my Editor.
We continue to get interest in the Applause for Anger project. If you know of someone who might be interested, have them email me teamedward@yahoo.com
Anyway, now I've got plenty of time to go and workout. Also I figured I would use the day to get a bunch of stuff ready for Phillip King, my Editor.
We continue to get interest in the Applause for Anger project. If you know of someone who might be interested, have them email me teamedward@yahoo.com
Friday, October 24, 2008
Welcome Tommy Sweeny, Author of the Jacaranda
The following is an excerpt from Jacaranda, by Tommy Sweeny. I read it years ago and promised to use it in my books if ever I got published.
The story is self-explanatory, two people meeting while one is on vacation.
Jacaranda
To what angel do I yield?
That day I leaned on the trunk of that tree –you were miles away
. . . across that purple city
– I photographed some ants toting the violet blooms down the trunk
to their hiding space
and I wondered what we would have for dinner
later that evening when I returned home
and would surely have to knock, key or not, as the doors and the
keys down in your country are strange.
Do they eat those, I wondered.
Those purple buds –those tokens of the time we shared -- those symbols of your city.
They carried them on their backs like they were going to a feast.
We clung together as in a dream.
We cling together now from separate hemispheres.
Distance is discipline.
To what stern teacher do I aim
my gratitude for this lesson in fortitude?
Nothing is now nor ever has been as sweet
as the misery of continents.
(continued http://www.applauseforanger.blogspot.com/ )
The story is self-explanatory, two people meeting while one is on vacation.
Jacaranda
To what angel do I yield?
That day I leaned on the trunk of that tree –you were miles away
. . . across that purple city
– I photographed some ants toting the violet blooms down the trunk
to their hiding space
and I wondered what we would have for dinner
later that evening when I returned home
and would surely have to knock, key or not, as the doors and the
keys down in your country are strange.
Do they eat those, I wondered.
Those purple buds –those tokens of the time we shared -- those symbols of your city.
They carried them on their backs like they were going to a feast.
We clung together as in a dream.
We cling together now from separate hemispheres.
Distance is discipline.
To what stern teacher do I aim
my gratitude for this lesson in fortitude?
Nothing is now nor ever has been as sweet
as the misery of continents.
(continued http://www.applauseforanger.blogspot.com/ )
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Call for Submissions APPLAUSE for ANGER
We have started a collaborative book project.
If you know of someone who would like to make a short submission, have them email me.
The study is called Applause For Anger, and we are looking for short stories, poetry, and artwork. So far we have some great additions to the project.
The theme is beauty in anger, and the transmission of anger to strength.
raymacon@gmail.com
If you know of someone who would like to make a short submission, have them email me.
The study is called Applause For Anger, and we are looking for short stories, poetry, and artwork. So far we have some great additions to the project.
The theme is beauty in anger, and the transmission of anger to strength.
raymacon@gmail.com
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