Michaela Cernescu’s Blog

It has been a month with so many events, it is hard to decide among them.

This week we welcome arrival of Amazon’s Kindle 2, wireless reading device.

Amazon Kindle 2

Do you need a kindle 2? Click on the next link.

Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)

For all the details about the new features I have created a Squidoo lens , please look it over.

I don’t want to repeat content, I’ll summarize the beneffits of having a Kindle 2:

• You can select to read from Kindle Store: books, magazines, domestic and foreign newspapers, blogs, all Kindle edition
• The price of all Kindle edition items are very low vs. paper
• Internal mempry of the Amazon Kindle can hold aroud 200 non-illustrated titles, available memory is 1.4 Gigabytes
• You can send documents to a conversion service which will send a Kindle file to the device directly for $.10 or to a personal e-mail account for free
• You can play music from MP3 files
• You have wireless access to Wikipedia and Owner’s manual (both PDF format)
• With new Text-to-Speech teature, Kindle can read to you 
• You can download books under 60 seconds, and read them at your convenience, when and where you can. 

I read an eBook waiting my grandson to get out of his soccer practice, or on the bus coming back from Manhattan,  or I read a magazine waiting on a doctor waiting room and so on.

I have a freedom of reading like never before, the dimensions of Kinder 2 are:

• Display: 6″ diagonal E-Ink® electronic paper display, 600 x 800 pixel resolution at 167 ppi, 16-level gray scale
• Size (in inches): 8″ x 5.3″ x 0.36″
• Weight: 10.2 ounces.

As you can see, I can keep my Kindle 2 in my pocket, so do you.

I already gave a Kindle 2 as a gift to my grandson, and Andrew is reading now 50% more then usual, he starts today practicing his Franch reading articles from a French newspaper and he thinks that I am the best grandmother in the world, he realy likes his Kindle 2!

Regards

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They’re Changing the World Through the Power of Social Media and Twitter!

The concept of Twestivals was born on September 2008, when a group of Twitters from London UK decided to organize an event where the local Twitter community could get together, and socialize offline. The event was organized using Twitter as a communication tool, and financial support of the local Twittersphere. 

It turns out to be an exiting experience to meet the faces behind the avatars, tiny pictures, or not picture at all. They get some entertainment, a few drinks, and the most important a food drive and fundraising effort for a local homeless charity.

Since Sep. 08, the globalization of  Twitter made possible similar events to be organized and other local Twitter communities got together and took action for a variety of great causes.

Twestivals was born and they had a spectacular impact to bring awareness to global crisis. 

This is one more proof that Twitter can be a powerful communications tool.

It can

• Connect, mobilize and inform people around the world instantly,
• It has the ability to create targeted communities from those people who find and follow each other,
• It is extending your virtual community into the real world, and doing  it  can help a lot of good causes.

Starting Thursday, February 12^th, fans of Twitter.com are coming together for Twestivalsf – in San Francisco branch of an event happening simultaneously across the  world, so far 175 cities are coming together to benefit charity: water.

The mandatory $20 donation (i.e. the cost of a ticket) goes to Charity: Water, which lends a hand to some of the 1.1 billion people in the world who don’t have access to clean drinking water. Organizers for the event are all volunteers, find out more on the twestivalsf  link.

Be Part of a Revolutionary Event.

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From all Web 2.0 Applications, Twitter and Squidoo are the most visible, used, and embraced with user love and addiction. For the second time Squidoo meet Twitter today when a squidoo lens, about Twitter Applications, is featured #1, Squidoo Lens of the Day:
http://www.squidoo.com/twitterapps

This lens is a collection of 275 applications about Twitter, YES 275.
I love both of them; I pretend that I know a lot about Twitter and Squidoo, but this lens shamed me. 

I probably know 25-30 applications, I publish a part of them in this Blog, but a list of 275 catch me by surprise.

I spend 2 quality hours looking all over and enhancing my list of thinks to do on Twitter.

I really recommend this Squidoo lens. Please look it over, I guaranty you that you will find new Applications:

• You can use to become a better tweeter
• You will learn about new applications
• You will discover new way to produce traffic for you
• You will learn dos and don’ts about Twitter
• It definitely will bring something new for each reared.

To learn more about Twitter and Squidoo I recommend some Digital Products, but always it is a good idea to verify Squidoo lens of the Days because they are quality lenses, great content, and educational.

1) Excellent free e-Book by Simon Leung “What are you doing?”
http://simonleung.com/blog/free-twitter-report-what-are-you-doing/

You will learn how to drive traffic with Twitter, how to maximize the use of Twitter.

2) I. C. Jackson’s  “Squidoo Harvest” ebook shows you the direct path of success. 

I. C. Jackson was a lensmaster that dreamed to become a Giant Squid and turn the Squidoo efforts into a supplementary income stream at the same time. She succeeded and
she documented all the tricks, methods, tools, everything she used, in her “Squidoo Harvest” ebook. 

Or Please click on “Favorite DP” for more info.

All the best until next time.

Michaela

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