Hi all,

As you may all know, ‘making the world a better place” is one of the reasons Myngle was founded. Last week Myngle had the opportunity to do so  by offering 30 language lessons for the Pink Ribbon Charity Auction, organised by Hollands largest retail promotion, Drie Dwaze Dagen (3 crazy days) from Bijenkorf .

1285 viewers on our auction resulted in 30 bids, bringing in 191 euro for the good cause. Welcome to all 30 bidders on Myngle.

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September was a fantastic month for Myngle as it really took off in the summer and now it is flying higher and higher. We all deserve this after the hard work of the first months, all of us. Myngle’s team and our valuable community made all of this, so I am proud to share with you the fantastic results.
September was a month of all time highs, in booked lessons per day, paid lessons given, teachers growing to coloured stars Results well above expectations!

SOME KEY FIGURES:

- We passed 23.000 registered users, and keep growing!
- Paid lessons more then doubled from August, proving that students are happy with Myngle and with the great teachers we have. Third month in a row with triple digit growth!
- All time high of 120 bookings in one day.
- We launched a lot of new features! We are now accelerating development so that Myngle will really be your ideal platform. You can count on that!
- Especially the new whiteboard was a success!
- All time high in direct traffic
- Myngle selected in the top 5 most innovative Companies by Accenture, to present in front of a jury on the 23rd of October.
- We more then doubled the amount of new teachers now visible on Myngle, from 300 to currently 739 visible teachers. Many more teachers are registered on Myngle, when you are ready, we will make you also visible.
- Our most successful teacher to date gave 367 lessons!
- But there are more teachers really successful: an additional 10 teachers already gave more then 100 lessons!
- Some students are really ‘fanatic’. The most enthusiastic Myngle student already took 67 lessons!

So, what else can I say? Myngle rocks!

It seems as the negative financial climate has not impacted Myngle at all. On the contrary, people are discovering that the value of Myngle can also be found in getting good value for money in difficult economic periods.

Thank to all of you for these great results.

We will keep on growing!

Marina

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Last Friday we celebrated the farewell of Andres, with tons of warm words for his contribution to Myngle, symbolic gifts and later drinks on the bank of Amstel river.

It’s sad to see Andres leaving, as he really clicked well with the Myngle team and our community in all corners of the world. It was a terrific one year of myngling together and enjoying the unstoppable stream of jokes and great mood shining from Andres!

We will miss you a lot! And when Marina gets to writing the book ‘The Perfect School’, you’ll definitely be there! We can start negotiating the title of the chapter already now

Good luck in your further pursuits and am sure you will remain a Myngler in your heart!

All the best,

Your Myngle team

P.S. Don’t forget to make use of your life-long Myngle coupon for lessons!

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Hello!

Yesterday Mynglers had lots of fun in the Amsterdam airport, meeting Danilo and his wife Lidia arriving from Brazil to the Netherlands! Apart from having our branded presence with a huge Myngle parrot poster, it was a joyful evening for all of us as we’ve been waiting for this for quite a few months!

     (Marina, Elisa, Egbert, Andres and Myngle parrot above)

Danilo started working with Marina from the very early days of Myngle (even before THE idea got the name of Myngle.com), almost two years ago. All this time he was working on distance from the lovely Fortaleza taking care of the Education department in Myngle. Now he is happy to arrive to Holland, although the local weather could be slightly better than in Brazil

Please join us in welcoming Danilo and Lidia!

Tetyana

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Hi,

Ok, so you have a great profile on Myngle, you have your courses and lessons all shipshape in order, your calendar is up-to-date, and you are all ready to get bookings. All what we need now is students finding your profile. Yes, not only Myngle, but they have to find YOUR PROFILE. So what are the best and easiest (free) tricks to do that?

Of course Myngle’s marketing department attracks students by Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Paid search (i.e. we pay search engines to display Myngle advertisements) and Social media Optimization (SMO). If you come back soon you will see a great feature being introduced for SEO.

Next to what Myngle can do, the quality of your lessons will enhance word of mouth and bring new students to you as well. So, a great product and quality teaching are also drivers of traffic.

But there is more……YOU can be the one bringing extra traffic to your profile. Read Tetyana’s tips and tricks on teachers entrepreneurs finding online students, as well as Danilo’s tips for finding and saving the web address of your profile.

Have look at the perfect example of a Myngle teacher using free classifieds site to attract students.

Laoshijeff is a new teacher on Myngle but immediately making the max of internet possibilities, making use of the free Myngle banners as well. It is easy to do but very effective and targeted.

You can do this too if you want, just decide to do it.

You’re good, so spread the word!

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a few days ago I was reading an interesting article about internet and broadband penetration and it appears that Myngle’s home country, Holland, is N.3 worldwide in quality of broadband penetration after Japan and Sweden!

I already knew that Holland had a very good infrastructure, with the Amsterdam Internet Exchange - AMS-IX, which has the highest volume of peering parties for a single Exchange in the world (over 290 connected parties coming from all around the world).

But I did not know that Holland was also in the top 3 for the best quality broadband internet. This is the result of a research done by the universities of Oxford en Oviedo. This research took into consideration not only the broadband penetration but also the speed of the connection and its quality.

To calculate the speed of the broadband, the research used the website Speedtest.net.
In total were conducted 8 Million tests!

The top 10 Countries with the best quality broadband internet are:
1. Japan
2. Sweden
3. Holland
4. Letland
5. Korea
6. Zwitzerland
7. Litouwen
8. Denmark
9. Germany
10. Slovenie

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Perhaps you already knew that there is a Myngle tour in 10 languages explaining all about Myngle. Today we have released a German Myngle Tour. The german tour is powered by kirstenwinkler who helped in translating the text.

Any wishes for a tour in any other language?

Egbert

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Today we released two new features on Myngle.

1. User friendly url’s

I hate typing url’s, and I can imagine you do too. As of today we have simplified the url of your profile. Until now, if you wanted to communicate the url of your profile on a blog or forum, this took a lot of space. As of today, we have made it easy for you. From now on it is just : http://www.myngle.com/users/yourusername

So, the username of teacher Masreya now results in a url of : http://www.myngle.com/users/Masreya

Not only does this make it simpler for you to remember and communicate your Myngle profile, it also increases your findability on search engines. So, try it out and spread your profile!

2. New teacher registration

Creating a course is not as difficult as it was in the past.

For newly registered users, selecting which language you will be teaching and the level will automatically create a basic course with a lesson, that you can still modify in the future, changing the name, adding lessons and material, etc.

For old users, you just need to click on “my profile”, then on “change my profile”, and you will see the languages you will be teaching. Just select the level in the checkbox to have a course created (if you already have a course on that level, it is better to leave it empty so that you will not create too many courses on your profile, or else students will be confused on what to book!). This is how it looks like:

Hope this will make life easier for you teachers

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Today our famous teacher Hamlet is in the spotlight: he is already a celebrity in Myngle ;-), let’s see if he confesses something we don’t know yet…

“Hello mynglers! (we do not just teach languages, we invent words as well ;-)),

it seems to be my turn on this page!!! I want to celebrate my 100th lesson with you all, and I also want to spend a few words about the special team who made a dream come true. This is not just a web site, this is a community where some people with a lot of dedication are doing a wonderful job. We all are part of this community. Mynglers from Amsterdam: you are great! Every time I have a problem you find the solution, grazie mille ragazzi!

I started teaching a few years ago, and I could have never imagined that one day I would have lessons with students from all over the world… I feel connected to the world, and I think this is the true spirit of every myngler. I love teaching and I love this job!

I graduated in Naples, where I live, but my career as a teacher started in England, in the beautiful Lake District. If you have been there I am sure you will agree with me that it’s a wonderful place. I lived on a small island, Walney Island. When I had to go to the school on my first day I got out of my house, crossed the road, and…got lost! And the school was just opposite my house… Since then I seem to have found the right way: after teaching Italian in primary and secondary schools, I left England and got back to Italy because I wanted to become a qualified teacher.

Two years course at the postgraduate school and I got my certification, so I started to teach Spanish in secondary schools. Now I am very happy of teaching in Myngle, I arrived second at the Myngle Teacher Contest, congratulations Livent, you did a terrific job! Agneta, I hope we will be luckier next time…

Now I have another goal: I want to have 1000 lessons in Myngle!!!

Grazie a tutti
Mimmo (teacher Hamlet)”

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Myngle is finally releasing its new virtual classroom environment! We’ve listened to the community requests to add a whiteboard, a faster and smoother slide sharing process, and all of that (plus more!) are present in this new build. Let’s go through the details of our new feature:

Minimum requirements:

• Windows, MacOS, or Linux!
• Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari.
• Adobe Flash Player 9.

So, let me present to you the parts and features of the new virtual classroom:

1) Main collaboration space: this area will display to everyone in the classroom the content the teacher chooses to share (whiteboard, slides, or desktop view).

2) Sharing control options: with 1-click the teacher will have the option to

• share a whiteboard (to write or draw with the students),
• share a PPT or PDF file that is uploaded in the teacher’s Myngle profile,
• or, share the teacher’s desktop view, so anything you open on your computer will be visible for students as well to see (this function is Windows-only with Firefox or Internet Explorer).

Please note, all of the teacher’s material will be displayed in this window. So, you may switch to a different material in the middle of the lesson if needed.

You can click on the “Expand” button to read the full title of your lesson material inside the virtual classroom.

3) Participants: you’ll see here those present inside the virtual classroom session. So, now it is very easy to see when the student arrives to the lesson. By clicking on the student’s username here, you’ll also be able to allow the student to share his/her video.

4) Skype buttons: 1-click buttons to contact your students on Skype.

5) Video windows: this area will display the video feed of students and teachers (if chosen to share video). If you hover your mouse over the video you can see some extra control options.

6) Chat box: use text chat inside your virtual classroom!

7) More options: on the top-right corner of your window you’ll see a session timer, and when your lesson is finished the “End Meeting” link.

*Whiteboard: teachers and students will have various tools to work collaboratively inside this complete whiteboard, such as: a pencil tool for drawing, write text, stamp tool, draw lines, squares, circles, and triangles. These annotation tools will also be available when you’re sharing slides!

Testing your new virtual classroom: teachers can test their virtual classroom environment at any time by doing the following:

1. Go to My Courses after you’ve logged on;
2. Click on the title of any of your courses;
3. Click on the title of any lesson inside that course;
4. Click on “Test Enter Classroom”.

We strongly encourage you to test everything and get familiarized with the new tools!

Here is a screencast video tour of the new whiteboard as well for you to see everything in action:

Until Monday, September 15th, you’ll only see the new virtual classroom on the “Test Enter Classroom” feature so you’ll have time to get used to everything before your first live lesson.

Have fun teaching!

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