"Smiling Joe Project - A HUGE Hit"

I would have never guessed that the Smiling Joe Project would become such a huge hit, but is has! With over 45 stops now scheduled for Joe he will have himself a very busy Spring & Summer. Besides every corner of the United States he will also be traveling overseas to - Canada, The United Kingdom, France, Belgium & India !

I wanted to Thank You ALL very much for your support & excitement for this project and look forward to how interesting not only the images will be but also to the story that will be created from your journal entries, especially now since JOE will have a travel companion "Shorty" Thanks to Angela Davis introducing me to her similar desk top good luck charm, which can be : SEEN HERE I have spent countless hours trying to put together the logistics of the project including a mailing list, maps, vacation schedules and ideas. I never knew it would be so involved but I am always up for a challenge and I have certainly given myself a good one this time LOL.

After weighing some different ideas of how to work this out, I've decided on the following changes to make this easier on everyone involved (especially ME LOL):

1) Instead of having a PLANNED route, the person who has Joe will contact several participants in their area and send him to the person who is ready to receive him. This way if someone is going on vacation on a certain date they can get him for their vacation or pass him up to the next person until their ready.

2) Instead of sending a Note Book Journal with JOE I've decided to use the magic of the internet, so all you will have to do is send me an email or Word Document with your journal entries, this way all I have to do is Copy & Paste it into a main Word Document to create the story. This will also keep the weight down on the box to bare minimum and there will be less things to lose in case of a post office disaster. This also enables me to have the story images & journal entries IN HAND to keep the Story Gallery updated every few days so everyone can follow his trip in LIVE Time. To me this is a lot more interesting then having to wait !

I plan on sending out a mass email with all the details to those who have signed up ni the near future with all the pertinent information you will need. Oh before I forget, I have created an email address just for this project where all of your email pertaining to this will be sent, this way I can keep everything in one place for organizational purposes. The new email address is - smilingjoeusa@gmail.com - So please make a note of this in your address books. When ever you have to email me about this project please just place - SMILING JOE - in the Subject Line so that they automatically get routed into a special folder in my email program I have created.

The SMILING JOE 'STORY GALLERY' has also been created and can be found here: http://billpador.smugmug.com/Galleries
This is where all of the images, story and anything else to do with Joe's journey will be posted !

Thanks again everyone, I hope to get this off the ground in the next 2 weeks so get your creative ideas flowing in your head, this is gonna be a BLAST ! Any questions, feel free to email me at the new address !

~Bill Pador~

"Smiling Joe Project - A HUGE Hit"

I would have never guessed that the Smiling Joe Project would become such a huge hit, but is has! With over 45 stops now scheduled for Joe he will have himself a very busy Spring & Summer. Besides every corner of the United States he will also be traveling overseas to - Canada, The United Kingdom, France, Belgium & India !

I wanted to Thank You ALL very much for your support & excitement for this project and look forward to how interesting not only the images will be but also to the story that will be created from your journal entries, especially now since JOE will have a travel companion "Shorty" Thanks to Angela Davis introducing me to her similar desk top good luck charm, which can be : SEEN HERE I have spent countless hours trying to put together the logistics of the project including a mailing list, maps, vacation schedules and ideas. I never knew it would be so involved but I am always up for a challenge and I have certainly given myself a good one this time LOL.

After weighing some different ideas of how to work this out, I've decided on the following changes to make this easier on everyone involved (especially ME LOL):

1) Instead of having a PLANNED route, the person who has Joe will contact several participants in their area and send him to the person who is ready to receive him. This way if someone is going on vacation on a certain date they can get him for their vacation or pass him up to the next person until their ready.

2) Instead of sending a Note Book Journal with JOE I've decided to use the magic of the internet, so all you will have to do is send me an email or Word Document with your journal entries, this way all I have to do is Copy & Paste it into a main Word Document to create the story. This will also keep the weight down on the box to bare minimum and there will be less things to lose in case of a post office disaster. This also enables me to have the story images & journal entries IN HAND to keep the Story Gallery updated every few days so everyone can follow his trip in LIVE Time. To me this is a lot more interesting then having to wait !

I plan on sending out a mass email with all the details to those who have signed up ni the near future with all the pertinent information you will need. Oh before I forget, I have created an email address just for this project where all of your email pertaining to this will be sent, this way I can keep everything in one place for organizational purposes. The new email address is - smilingjoeusa@gmail.com - So please make a note of this in your address books. When ever you have to email me about this project please just place - SMILING JOE - in the Subject Line so that they automatically get routed into a special folder in my email program I have created.

The SMILING JOE 'STORY GALLERY' has also been created and can be found here: http://billpador.smugmug.com/Galleries
This is where all of the images, story and anything else to do with Joe's journey will be posted !

Thanks again everyone, I hope to get this off the ground in the next 2 weeks so get your creative ideas flowing in your head, this is gonna be a BLAST ! Any questions, feel free to email me at the new address !

~Bill Pador~