The Writing Hero Behind Ancestry Guru Does Production Planning with Organic Ingredients

Who’s the real hero behind Ancestry Guru?

Roberrific the Son of a Beekeeper is the principal writer. Here’s Rob standing tall as one of three sharp dressed men at the Small Business Forum in the Metro Toronto Convention Center on Tuesday Oct 18th, 2011.  Rob Campbell stands beside Jim Pagiamtzis and his friend Tom moments after they donned their special passport badges; they were heading into the trade show floor when I made them pause for a picture and we took several with a variety of smiles

That was around 10am in the morning and it wasnt until 11am that I attended the best session of the day. I had the good fortune to meet Jeff Quipp before his presentation and I wrote about

Roberrific of Lenzr Corp detailed Jeff Quipp Search Engine People Speaks SEO Small Business on the Page One Program blog

Jeff Quipp is a very good speaker and did a lovely job explaining the basics of SEO to a room filled with Facebook and Twitter savvy small business owners that are eager to take a DIY approach to marketing and as such they are keen to absorb as much as they can about social media contests and other unique strategies that are cost efficient and clever.

Recently the hero behind Ancestry Guru was called into action to write an article about a prolific writing team in Prince George BC as Arob12 wrote about Will Lewis being profiled on Canada Blog Friends, along with some insights into the life  and racial challenges of an aboriginal online magazine publisher.

On a more religious note the son of beekeeper waxed poetic and gave recent glimpses of the differences between medieval beekeeping and the art and science of a modern commercial apiarist and even more miscellaneous insights into the harvest of rare earths, minerals and organic ingredients for making bread and dinner buns.

Which brings me to the Art of Bread Making on Xanga and the secrets of soliciting votes for pictures on social media contests is also explained there

Harvesting Honey in Eastern Ontario Canada

Here’s a snapshot of some of the 2011 Honey Crop at Campbells Honey, this image is something that might be accepted into a photo contest concerning Warehouse Stockpiles on Lenzr. Here are seven barrels of Canada #1 White Honey ready to be shipped to market. I wrote about this Canadian harvest in an article The Business of Beekeeping in Southern Ontario that was picked up by Bizcovering magazine. Look closely in the background you can see boxes and a freezer that was filled with plastic tubs of creamed white honey.

WHAT IS CREAMED HONEY?  There is nothing added to the pure honey to make it creamy. The process involves mixing the fresh honey with a small amount of highly granular seed honey which teaches the liquid how to harden into a compact crystaline shape rather than the loose crystal pattern that would otherwise occur naturally. The honey is placed in the freezer and it hardens quick according to the code imparted by the tiny crystals from the creamed honey seed (last year’s creamed honey). I wonder if it would be worth saving some creamed honey in a seed bank with sophisticated inventory management and calling it an insurance expense.

Packing the honey in barrels and bottles and cardboard boxes is the last step in the honey production planning ritual that occurs every year at Campbell’s Honey in Warkworth Ontario.

Photographers Love Lenzr in February 2011

There are nine photo contests on Lenzr in February March 2011. The contests end on April 1st, when nine winners win nine different prizes! I should tell you that Lenzr is growing and becoming more relevant with every successful match – there are some great contests and lots of people are entering the action because of dedicated storytellers that use Lenzr as a base for their own multi media marketing campaigns who spread the word on several different contest media discussion forums. One of my favorite forums is Smart Canucks and you can see here how Maram has told the story about Smart Canucks finding reflection in swimming pools on a hot summer night, while out for a moonlight swim.

The picture shows an exciting array of challenges for amatuer and professional photographers alike. If you click that picture you’ll be transported directly to Lenzr. Register and upload photos – you wont regret the exposure. And these competitions are all FREE to enter and win. There are absolutely no entry fees and your email address is secure and will not be spammed.

Have a look at this month’s original challenges,

People Dancing:

Dancing on the dance floor, alone by the mirror or at the front door? People Dancing is an easy contest to enter and win dancing shoes. You probably already have pictures of people dancing in your photo collection on your computer – pick something

You can dance in your living room. You don’t need to be a professional to take a good party picture of people dancing or take pictures at dance classes in a progressive dance studio in downtown Toronto.

On Stage at Home photo contest

The On stage at home contest. This home stager contest focuses on group fun. Take pictures of your night and send them in to Lenzr for a chance to win an animal skin rug courtesy of a home staging company in downtown Toronto.

Soap bubbles used to fill the air during the Lawrence Welk show in the 1960s and 70s , but in today’s television savvy society they would have to be added digitally for the exact perfect effect. Studying soiap bubbles and foam is a passion of detergent deputies and shutterbugs charged with keeping cleaning safe. Upoald to the Soap Foam and Bubbles contest and win a great prize courtesy of a of a rigid foam insulation company.

there will have to be more

Up Against the Wall:

Flat out lying up  against the wall a buskar plays his mandolin on a quiet street in Sao Paulo Brazil. Alone with hios shadow he is satisfied by simply creating music

but Up against the Wall asks contspecializes in wall systems in Toronto.

Reflections in Pools:

The crazy contest Reflections in pools, asks shutterbugs to survey small lakes puddles and ponds for pictures of a reflection – the prize comes courtesy of a green landscaping firm in Toronto that is first for swimming pools. Capture a green landscaping company in Toronto.

Making Green Power:

And the last contest is Making Green Power. This contests asks you to think about how far you have come in improving the hydro electric system in canada and how much farther do we have to go… Lets look at wind power and cellulosic ethanoil production facilities that can use forest waste to make alcohol based fuels

Programs such as Ontario MicroFIT are e best photo wins a portable solar kit.

Contests were launched February 1st, but there is still time for you to think up some great ideas and get your images up.

There are plenty of new resources for Canadian photogs  to take better photos with their fancy digital cameras and advanced photo editing software – anything is possible. There is a new Canadian Photographer discussion forum that has has given Lenzr space in the index, and we are very happy about it down here in the office.

Best patio in Canada:

Have a party and take pictures of  The Best Patio in Canada.  and you could win bistro table and two chairs made from plastic resin extruded as wicker and heat adjusted so that its safe and will not breakdown or fade or become mishapen due to weather – so its perfect outdoor furniture for Canadian patios. See the connection? – the prize of three pieces of  patio furniture comes courtesy of Velago Patio Furniture.  Resin wicker patio furniture is made from recycled plastic? I dont think so – not all the time anyway…

Beautiful Factories:

Assembly plants and processing statsions dont have to be ugly all the time – there can be some marvelous looking machines that fill viewers with awe and inspire a mechanical creativity. Beautiful Factories celebrates efficiency and massive machines working with proper manufacturing software to turn out profits and dominate markets. Win Apple iPad courtesy of Solarsoft in Richmond Hill.

Unlikely Marriage:

There’s no avoiding the truth sometimes and admitting that some things just don’t belong togther all the time, or ever.  An Unlikely Marriage photo contest asks folks to get creative any of a marriage counsellor in downtown Toronto.

yeah thats fine

Voting starts on the 15th of March and ends on the 25th of March. Open to all Canadians (excluding residents of Quebec) 13 years of age or older.

Broken Factories, Daily Distillery for Erp Software, Designer Swimwear and a Beauty School

I walk past the bone chilling painting on the right quite often, yet I still cant remember the artist’s name… I dont look. Does anyone out there know? pls leave in comments.
When I think of Broken Factories, this is what I imagine. This image has planted itself in my mind’s eye. This decrepit stairway in an old homestead is a dreamlike vision of squalor. It serves to remind me how far I’ve come in my own journey toward organizing a productive life and being a better citizen contributing more and more thought provoking rich media dissecting the living conditions of the human race.
This fine art painting can be found hanging on a wall somewhere in the distillery… do you know where? Read Daily Distillery for more details.
Broken Factories is a photo contest on Lenzr that reflects Rudolf Arnheim’s idea of man-made elements always moving toward equilibrium which in the case of abandon industrial centers is the presence of rust and decay being the first stages of a return to nature.
Photographers and painters, image makers in general have a theory about entropy and so make action pictures out of static shots – cant you just see the paint peeling around that old staircase above? and can we use this ideological concept to suggest that static shots of crumbling manufacturing complexes and warehouses with broken windows and vandals are actually part of a larger more wholesome process of decay which in itself is the physics of life reorganizing its component parts into a wide spread chaos, which is be default its most effective layout, as per the laws of nature.
Submit your best photos of abandon industrial centers for your chance to win a Toshiba NB100 Netbook courtesy of an erp software company that specializes in making high quality command management systems to better organize business initiatives.

WHAT IS BEAUTY? That’s the questions, posed by a famous beauty school; artists and designers are not the only people who make this world more beautiful.

Making it Beautiful is a photo challenge that pays tribute to people who make the world more tolerable, and so we’re talking about someone who creates or restores a cherished item or place. This contest allows mondo creative freedom, so think outside the confines of your everyday reality and try to image someone making something spectacularly beautiful, so pretty it cant help become the most popular choice for voters on the December 20th voting session. Submit your best photos of people making things beautiful for your chance to win $500 worth of luxurious hair products from Aveda, a company that has beauty schools across the country. Remember it doesn’t have to show a person’s face; a hand can be enough to get the message across.

Canadian Beaches our nation’s photographers will upload their best shots of the seascapes and sunny destinations all across the country. Let’s see Mercury Beach in Saskatchewan or Dynamite Beach in PEI. Have you ever been to Falcon Beach in Manitoba? Do you have any pictures? Have you ever been to Wasaga Beach on a long weekend in the summer. Its a very popular destination.

Submit your snaps for a chance to win three bathing suits from a Canadian designer swimwear company that makes fun, flirty vintage-inspired swim apparel that compliments a whole range of different body types and comes in a wide assortment of colours.

Note from the sponsors, when entering your photos in this contest, be sure to include the beach NAME and LOCATION in your submission.

All three December web challenges are open to all Canadian residents age 13 years or older, excluding those unfortunate people living in Quebec. * even though Lenzr ships there anyway !wink

The contest closes Jan. 1st, 2011 and voting begins December 20th. Good luck!