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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Hello everyone,</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I
wanted to tell you all about a new website that I have launched recently and
that could be very interesting to you all. I am talking about </FONT><A
style='href: "http://www.blendereducation.com"'><FONT color=#0000ff
face="Times New Roman">www.blendereducation.com</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman">, a website targeted on private tutoring, mentoring,
support and coaching. Special about this website is that there is not a team
behind it, but rather that it is a platform for everyone to use. So anyone can
become a student and anyone can become a coach. The website offers both parties
a place to present themselves, offers the tools necessary such as fora, chat
rooms, video chat, … and takes care of the administration and payments.
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Currently the website is finished, but we have decided to
start slowly with a limited number of users. Anyone can apply for this ‘beta’
phase and use the website for free during this time (only the website will be
for free, not the coaches). For more information and details, visit the website
and the about section.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Besides informing you all, I would also like to ask 2
questions:</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT face="Times New Roman">1)If
there is anyone interested in joining the beta either as a student or as a
coach, feel free to send me an email. You can use the contact page on the
website for this. If anyone has students interested in learning Blender, then
perhaps you can inform them of this website and they could participate in the
beta during their summer break. (Please notice that they should be of legal age
or ask permission from their parents before hiring coaches.)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">2)Secondly, I wanted to ask for a little help in
promoting the website. As you can imagine, a website like this can only work if
it has sufficient support. I tried to make it as easy as possible to do this:
just go to our </FONT><A
style='href: "https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blender-Education/1414434628778691"'><FONT
color=#0000ff face="Times New Roman">facebook</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman">, </FONT><A
style='href: "https://twitter.com/BlenderEducatio"'><FONT color=#0000ff
face="Times New Roman">twitter</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"> or
</FONT><A style='href: "https://plus.google.com/+Blendereducation/posts"'><FONT
color=#0000ff face="Times New Roman">google+</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> page and you will find a message that you can share and
retweet or copy to other social media, mailing lists or fora. The more people
spread the news, the more people will find the website and the more interesting
it will become, so ask others to do the same.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Thank you all for any help you can give and I hope to see
you on the website.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Best
regards<BR>Nick Van den Broeck</FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>