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== Atlanta's Pen Addict Show Planning ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' The execution has to go. Has to get ramped up. I did ramp up the purge and update of the Pen Friends page on the Pen Addict website this past week. Along with the top five list, it's been a page that's needed updating. What I try to do with this list is just share everybody who wants to be shared on this list. There's blogs. There's retailers. There's YouTubers. There's makers. And it's gotten, like, I could add so much more stuff to this. It's making me think I want to break it down into those types of categories instead of just having, like, a full running alphabetical list where, like, you know, Pen Chalet sits next to, you know, Penquisition or something like that. You know, it's, like, we can break out the blogs from the retailers and the YouTubers, you know, from the custom makers and things like that. And, like, I added all the podcasts on there, right? Like, I never had links to any of the other podcasts. Like, those are all on there now. But they're intermixed into the thing. So, I think that's the next step is to break it out a little bit more because there's a lot more that needs to be added to the list. And I'm pointing this out because if you want to be added to the list, if you have a Pen blog, a Pen business, a Pen anything, I want to put you on the list. So, tweet at me. Email me. I'm easy to get. You can find me. Send me your info. I'll add it to the list because I just want to spread as much. I don't want it to be, like, the go-to cataloging of all the pen content out there in the world. But I just want it to be, like, a cool place to say, hey, I want to find something new today. Go find something on this list and click it and see what you find.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Last bit of tidbit before we have a slew of Ask TBA to get to. Myke, the Stationery Wiki, our friends Matias and Alexander, who do such a good job over there, they have extended their Mechanical Pencil Day contest, which started at the end of 2019. It's running through the end of January 2020. And there is a package of mechanical pencils that Cult Pens has offered as a winner to this contest. In this contest, all you have to do is go update or create a wiki page on the wonderful Stationery Wiki, which is a great resource out there for all of your stationary needs. And it's a great collaborative effort. You know, it takes the community to update wiki pages. If you're not familiar or don't know how to do it, they explain that on the site on how to update or create any new wiki pages you wanted. And I think I'm going to go do something for Mechanical Pencil Day myself, Myke. I think I have some entries.

'''Myke Hurley:''' To win the competition, the page that you have to update or create has to be related to Mechanical Pencils in some way.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yeah. And it's easy. Like, you don't have to create all new content. You can find a product you like and add a tidbit to that page and make it better. So it'd be very cool for you to go check that out and check out and use and be a part of Stationery Wiki. And it's very cool. So thanks to them for doing this. Just it's a great resource. And I'd love to help continue building it out.

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