Brady up to bat!
So Hailey encouraged me to tell you all about my most recent experience with the fine people at The Maker Community Project.
The other night they were announcing the winner of a contest they ran to raise money buy giving away a CNC to a very lucky recipient on Instagram.
They had done gone Live on Instagram on a previous occasion to announce the winner of a previous contest and had asked me to come watch and pay attention which I was happy to do. They announced they were going to go live again to announce the winner of the CNC.
So again I was watching their Instagram Live stream. Pretty quickly they started hinting that they wanted me in the live stream and the invitation popped up on my phone. I was very excited and accepted quickly.
Now it’s not like I was live in front of a large number of people, there was only 100 or so people watching, but it still felt like an honour to be invited.
I briefly spoke about how I became paraplegic and how I’m making an effort to become a woodworker. They took a moment to rib me about my beard pencil schtick. (I stick a pencil in my beard when I take pictures and videos for Instagram). And then I was just a part of the group when the winner was announced. Over 30,000 entries had be made in the form of merchandise purchases as well as straight up donations. They announced that over $16,000 had be raised in just 2 months! Crazy!
It was a very exciting moment! We cheered and clapped and pretty shortly they asked me to leave the live stream so that they could ask the winner to join. Which is totally understandable and I gladly ended my feed so the winner could join. It was an excellent experience to be a part of.
Shortly thereafter they ended the live stream entirely and my 15 minutes of fame were over.
But I really enjoyed it! I’m hoping to be able to join them again in the future.
To quote Solomon, ‘So that’s my map.’
Goodnight.