Woodturning Live Auction for Dave Delaney
Last Night I walked into the house and flipped on my computer, I was covered with dust and woodchips from a long day of woodturning and I saw a message on Twitter from my good friend Dave Delaney. Dave is originnally from Canada and now resides in Nashville with his beautiful family. The bottom line is that Dave is a community guy and through his blog and podcast is “always” giving to the online community. Recently Dave left a job to become a solo-preneur and was forced to give back his Macbook, the tool he relies on the most for his business. Dave decided that he would hold an auction for a special card he received by a magician in honor of his 8,000 tweet on twitter to help him raise funds for a new macbook. The auction is live on Ebay right now!
However, after seeing Dave’s announcement of his auction I decided that I would try to help him in the way I know best, my woodturning. Tomorrow night (Thursday June 3rd) at 9 PM EST, sharp I will be Live on Blog TV turning something special to auction off for Dave. I will turn and auction the piece live on Blog TV, but thats not all. I have a few other small pieces already finished that I will reveal during the live show and will be auctioning those off as well. All in total there will be 3 small auctions during the cast with the larger piece auctioned off last. 100% of the funds will be turned over to Dave to help him get his Macbook.
So lets be honest here. Why am I doing this for Dave? The fact is that I am a small business owner myself, and I understand completely how hard it is to get going in the challenging world of business. Dave has a family that he cares about deeply and I know how talented he is. So lets help Dave get the tools he needs to be successful in this space. He has helped us all of these years putting together podcamps, articles on his blog, and just being an all around community guy. So please stop by tomorrow night and lets give Dave an excellent 4th of July present.
Notes for Auction: Funds will be forwarded to my paypal account (Go to Paypal account is keith@magicwoodworks.com)
Auctions will take place live on my Blog TV Channel, and Paypal confirmation of payment is necessary within ten or so minutes of confirmed winner or the item(s) will go up for auction again.
100% of funds recieved will be donated to Dave Delaney’s effort to purchase a macbook.
A BIG thank you to CC Chapman for the use of the great photo of Dave!
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July 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Wow Keith, I’m really touched by your kind gesture. I sincerely appreciate this. I’m looking forward to seeing your auction. I’ll be sure to do my best to log in. Go figure that I will be attending a Tweet Up tomorrow night during the auction.
Thanks so much for your continued support! You rock sir.
Cheers,
Dave
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 am
Keith, good luck with tonight’s “performance”. I’ll retweet your livestreaming event and hopefully get you more attention for the auction.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I’ve always found the best way to get a computer is to get the company you work for to give you one or go out and buy one yourself. That’s just me, though. That goes for snowblowers and iPhones too.
You are a kind and generous guy, Keith. As much as I like Dave, I bet there are more needy people than Dave that could use the cash your talent and sweat will generate. That’s just me, though.