Archive for March, 2009
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Dear Myngle community,
Last Tuesday we were invited to present Myngle to KLM Club Africa, an exclusive network for people doing business with or in Africa.
Amongst other presenters were FMO, a Dutch Development Bank, and main speaker the Kenyan ambassador H.E. Mrs. Ruthie Chepkoech Rono. The conference was combined with a network event and a [...]
Categories: Myngle News, Partnerships, Press
Comments: 4 Comments
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Top 5 E-learning myths
Although online education has been booming over the last years there are still a lot of people who still have doubts. Those people still buy in to the so-called “E-learing myths”. Browsing on the internet I found this post of Jamie Littlefield of about.com. She has put together the top 5 myths [...]
Categories: Language Facts, Language Learning
Comments: 1 Comment
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Hello everybody!
Myngle is looking for some enthusiastic interns to assist our Myngle team in Amsterdam!
At the moment we have several interesting possibilities open for Customer Service and Marketing and Graphic design!
The intern will be given a great deal of responsibility and will be able to develop him/herself in a professional point of view. If [...]
Categories: Myngle News, Team
Comments: 2 Comments
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Hi all,
As you may know, last week Myngle won the Plugg 2009 People’s choice award. First our CEO Marina did a 2 minutes pitch, together with 19 other companies. After that we were selected with the last 3 and Marina did a 10 minute pitch.
See below the 2 minute pitch, starting after 2,20 minutes:
Startups Rally [...]
Categories: Myngle News, Press, Tech
Comments: 2 Comments
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Hi all!
As you may know Myngle was nominated for the Plugg top 20 European startups rally. Yesterday was the big day of the award ceremony and we are very happy and proud that Myngle has won yet another prize! The Plugg event was held in Brussels and Marina and me went there to represent Myngle.
All [...]
Categories: Myngle News, Press
Comments: Be the first to comment
Friday, March 13th, 2009
This week we have in the spotlight Stephen, better known as EnglishTeacher!
“Stop Talking to Your Television!
A message to e-students and e-teachers.
Internet students are different to offline students: they are more demanding. People who ‘learn’ English over the Net want something special. If you don’t give it to them, they will go away.
So what do [...]
Categories: In the spotlight
Comments: 6 Comments
Friday, March 13th, 2009
To give you an idea of what students and teachers are looking for on Myngle I would like to share some figures about our community. The chart below shows the the most popular languages demanded and supplied on Myngle. We have analyzed the first language that our 48541 registered students are looking to learn and [...]
Categories: Market data, Myngle News
Comments: 1 Comment
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Hi all,
As of today Myngle students can pay for their classes in 6 different ways! With these new payment possibilities Myngle hopes to be more accessible for students and teachers all over the world. A survey among students showed that 37% of them prefers to pay with one of the major creditcards.
In addition to PayPal it [...]
Categories: Language Learning, Myngle News, Teaching a language, Tech
Comments: 2 Comments
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Maybe you already know it, but we want to officially (and happily) announce that Myngle, has just finalized a Euro 950.000 ($ 1.192.948) government backed bank loan at Rabobank.
Especially in this time of economic downturn this is something to be proud of because it represents the confidence in Myngle as a company.
The loan is [...]
Categories: Market data, Myngle News, Press
Comments: 3 Comments
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Myngle is among the 20 finalists of Plugg’s Start-Ups Rally!
We are very happy of this nomination also because a lot of people are talking about it, creating buzz about Myngle!
First of all, TechCrunch, a very important blog, wrote a post about it.
And then let me present a selection of links to taste our excitement [...]
Categories: Myngle News, Press
Comments: Be the first to comment