tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18942567786172587882024-03-13T00:55:49.112-07:00PenPal MagazinePenPal Magazines, Newsletters, Articles and Interviews!PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-36488401814333499912011-08-31T13:51:00.000-07:002011-08-31T13:51:50.863-07:00Sandbook PenPal Magazine August 2011<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sandbook.net/">August 2011 PenPal Magazine</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Welcome to yet another review of the Sandbook PenPal Magazine from August 2011. Yes, it's the summer and you simply get the warm and sunny feeling just by looking at the cover of this issue.<br />
Ever since the July 2011 issue, the Sandbook Net team are sticking to the cute and coverful new look of the cover. You simply have to wonder about all those articles that are waiting for you once you manage to download the new issue and start reading it through. The leading stories are 2012 Stamp Program, Aurorae Yoga, Send more Mail, Waffles tasting with an awesome article by Missive Maven, Write around the world and let's not forget my personal favorite: PenPal Interviews! Of course there are lots of other articles in the issue. Let's take a look inside.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> The magazine starts with Editorial from the Editor in Chief: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu7euTG5OnPz9SyNFCJrP_xQ78YPXlQaPJqUzoFr6UZPTbzVHHnXdLHRJmmEEgjR3fK_dxKA114zoyO-lUUlEDBfqc_VpGDgcsP1XKKvVq7qx0OOZ6x3yOo5BEmpILlPULXePYRCWCuTE/s1600/issue102.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu7euTG5OnPz9SyNFCJrP_xQ78YPXlQaPJqUzoFr6UZPTbzVHHnXdLHRJmmEEgjR3fK_dxKA114zoyO-lUUlEDBfqc_VpGDgcsP1XKKvVq7qx0OOZ6x3yOo5BEmpILlPULXePYRCWCuTE/s400/issue102.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> And here are previews of some of the stories in the content section:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-38gmqQNEliOlsla8oAZ2BFXJ49OjmtpBcSsfp9-tD6ZkZK2IBTmI3AG2Stx7iR4_VTUa2wbP2m1xoAjNgDlLfaDVFyK30Fa-Bz4XeK5N9VijVxHWdcJuipHroZwuAesuM32qyOmvVk/s1600/issue103.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY-38gmqQNEliOlsla8oAZ2BFXJ49OjmtpBcSsfp9-tD6ZkZK2IBTmI3AG2Stx7iR4_VTUa2wbP2m1xoAjNgDlLfaDVFyK30Fa-Bz4XeK5N9VijVxHWdcJuipHroZwuAesuM32qyOmvVk/s400/issue103.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEAprYa-CNfHoktOZrMIr9jLGFMxpWKOl-Iq6tZwPMMe-ecuxP2REcrxyx6ggJpqEXFU6SIbcK5D4f66hSIIvsEGesIowbg-0az0nyIlr-ecXUkJO2y2pqPn1EbKOkh58VlABENv2mnU/s1600/issue104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEAprYa-CNfHoktOZrMIr9jLGFMxpWKOl-Iq6tZwPMMe-ecuxP2REcrxyx6ggJpqEXFU6SIbcK5D4f66hSIIvsEGesIowbg-0az0nyIlr-ecXUkJO2y2pqPn1EbKOkh58VlABENv2mnU/s400/issue104.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new feature that you can enjoy is placed all over the content pages - simply click on the article/photo that present interest for you and you will be automatically taken to the article. Hopping through the issue is now easier than ever! That's a wise little feature, but it saves a lot of time and I must admit I simply love it! Thanks for the surprise there, Sandbook!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This issue includes a 6 page article on the wonderful postcards from the <a href="http://www.missivemaven.blogspot.com/">Missive Maven</a> :</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUvn7eXXcq1vveMEWdYNKoeVX0AaU1WyY3r5PwMU5QA5YfHHx0vDThbX4aE1idaqEjRD1WBrI3niDp6CergXGK2NUF-48ydpjL9d0OOGUenbJkeaKy7Z4Tzu4_Zf3tN-ewyykT4qqpF4/s1600/issue107.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUvn7eXXcq1vveMEWdYNKoeVX0AaU1WyY3r5PwMU5QA5YfHHx0vDThbX4aE1idaqEjRD1WBrI3niDp6CergXGK2NUF-48ydpjL9d0OOGUenbJkeaKy7Z4Tzu4_Zf3tN-ewyykT4qqpF4/s400/issue107.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> a review on <a href="http://www.sendmoremail.blogspot.com/">Send more mail</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTazNQuR6yOE_2yBgmhpFNbgQXzcamQun1RGqD7afmPA4P3uJ4lghDWGi-esIN_cjl3ywrreZQotHjSHcvINNX5n2lpMZb2Q-JxXNN5k7q5-GvIBysMIQwRRF3jSUQ2onxIrMa8GC7bQM/s1600/issue1010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTazNQuR6yOE_2yBgmhpFNbgQXzcamQun1RGqD7afmPA4P3uJ4lghDWGi-esIN_cjl3ywrreZQotHjSHcvINNX5n2lpMZb2Q-JxXNN5k7q5-GvIBysMIQwRRF3jSUQ2onxIrMa8GC7bQM/s400/issue1010.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> and a yummy waffle's article by <a href="http://www.penpallingandletters.blogspot.com/">PenPalling and Letters</a>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPG2zdsAt3dl42vZV2A9wPhBbpjd6jbc__axpnkahCH_-n8CTFE5kn2a_DflTiVV9KKZM8-f-q6HMgOV0kP7HCxEV0pc7GH-GsrXkNTwLDzXSJyra_fTANomS_jWF6l7Gdg7ulltkDh4/s1600/issue1041.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPG2zdsAt3dl42vZV2A9wPhBbpjd6jbc__axpnkahCH_-n8CTFE5kn2a_DflTiVV9KKZM8-f-q6HMgOV0kP7HCxEV0pc7GH-GsrXkNTwLDzXSJyra_fTANomS_jWF6l7Gdg7ulltkDh4/s400/issue1041.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">If you have enjoyed this review of the issue 10, <span style="font-size: small;">August 2011</span> of <span style="font-size: large;">Sandbook PenPal Magazine</span>, be sure to read all the stories in the magazine, which you can download for free at </span><a href="http://www.sandbook.net/" style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">www.sandbook.net</a><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"> (or just click on the </span><a href="http://sandbook.net/index.php/magazine/this-issue" style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">This Isssue link</a><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"> here).</span></b></span> </div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-5070429258929536222011-07-14T03:06:00.000-07:002011-07-14T03:06:43.296-07:00Sandbook PenPal Magazine July 2011<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cover July 2011 </td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">The guys from SandbookNet never seem to disappoint! The new July 2011 issue is released and it is looking absolutely gorgeous! Few things about the magazine make a huge impression! </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Firstly, the design. As a big fan of the 80s/grunge style, I think that this issue is totally made to my likings! Thank you, Sandbook! I love the overall designer touch to the magazine. When the magazine firstly hit the "market" (or should I say the internet, since it is a totally free e-zine, for now anyways!), we could see that the SandbookNet Team had made their best to come up with an original and cute design of the magazine. It certainly didn't have anything to do with the newspaper/ad design that most (if not all) other penpal related magazines had. The first issues of the Sandbook magazines had the side bars that framed the pages. Personally, I really liked those and did think that removing them wouldn't do much good for the design. Boy, I really love to be proven wrong! The latest issue of the magazine doesn't have the side bars, but the design didn't lose anything from that, even more than ever, I really found myself enjoying the full pages of the magazine.The hip and new "80s" look of this issue, surely points to the creativity of the design team.</div><br />
The magazine starts with Editorial from the Editor in Chief: <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkr9xqze3jUjk_c9l2XXsr58LxdcykOpC0_yOKI7gM4XGmenUEKy6OfHAwUeCRqeEZXXY2nwXuu8dKve9N00AImLgtaahR46evWDzpE54oBCKbMpw2zWZ7Xc-jQxs3jINIm92M0IObAk/s1600/issue94.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXkr9xqze3jUjk_c9l2XXsr58LxdcykOpC0_yOKI7gM4XGmenUEKy6OfHAwUeCRqeEZXXY2nwXuu8dKve9N00AImLgtaahR46evWDzpE54oBCKbMpw2zWZ7Xc-jQxs3jINIm92M0IObAk/s400/issue94.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> The articles that you can read inside the magazine are totally diverse and I am sure that everyone will find something that would personally intrigue him/her. For example, the Write Around the World Project that deals with the upcoming Pen Pal Movie made by Glass Completely Empty Productions:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHlUKxOjSlwuMSkRKRYIk-Q_At8NypLkgOwUJt-5nONFpPpALS69i79DHGLGrn_VorLpbxdPdPRBUFknGDrIvnGRqkRudLWwmXg7SNdCpym2HVLcSZMEohdUGd9HTgcAA8gUouTrW5kc/s1600/issue95.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHlUKxOjSlwuMSkRKRYIk-Q_At8NypLkgOwUJt-5nONFpPpALS69i79DHGLGrn_VorLpbxdPdPRBUFknGDrIvnGRqkRudLWwmXg7SNdCpym2HVLcSZMEohdUGd9HTgcAA8gUouTrW5kc/s400/issue95.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Or if you are feeling like reading something about stationery, SandbookNet has thought about you, too. They are making an awesome collaboration with Letters Parade. Check out the <a href="http://letterparade.blogspot.com/">Letters Parade Blog</a> and then don't forget to use the coupon discount (free shipping) code for all of the Sandbook Readers (see details in the magazine) in the <a href="http://www.letterparade.etsy.com/">Letters Parade Etsy Shop</a>.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">And if that's not diverse enough for you, make sure you read the articles about MidSummer in Sweden, Clava's handwork with patched blankets or catch up on articles about the holidays (July 4th, Canada's Day, Lammas). Personally I find the Lifestyle Article Section (ADHD, Peace, Love, Respect article, etc) quite interesting! </div><br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">If you have enjoyed this review of the issue 9, July 2011 of Sandbook PenPal Magazine, be sure to read all the stories in the magazine, which you can download for free at </span><a href="http://www.sandbook.net/" style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">www.sandbook.net</a><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"> (or just click on the </span><a href="http://sandbook.net/index.php/magazine/this-issue" style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">This Isssue link</a><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"> here).</span></b></span></div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-38448101853109154722011-07-10T01:00:00.000-07:002011-07-10T01:00:00.442-07:00Letternet, LetterMag and DeutschePost<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjImbL_u2z3O9wuN8WlkiIvWh6G3IdQKfeV9OSzfSMLsHzfraV_U7LRpTLE9d7GFEayQiq_MIqVHXn0mQXqKuKm2Xq3Z1zsC0Yhf_6j3WJXuk0ehet6YtMAcF6dOr9mQsqEtt4Q3c4VaJk/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjImbL_u2z3O9wuN8WlkiIvWh6G3IdQKfeV9OSzfSMLsHzfraV_U7LRpTLE9d7GFEayQiq_MIqVHXn0mQXqKuKm2Xq3Z1zsC0Yhf_6j3WJXuk0ehet6YtMAcF6dOr9mQsqEtt4Q3c4VaJk/s200/images.jpg" width="200" /></a>The LetterMag Post seemed to have a lot of feedback. Generally, people have been searching the web to find previous issues and any information about this penpal magazine, but encountered two problems: either there wasn't any working links or the links that they discovered were only in German.</div><div align="justify">I will try to bring things to prospective (as far as I know them). By the time that the LetterMag was released, Deutsche Post (German Post Service) had undertaken this project to keep the art of penpalling and correspondence alive. You could sign up with email, but the correspondence was strictly snail mail. It was a win-win situation for both Deutsche Post who marked increase in the use of their service and of course for all of the penpals who got to have a free and totally new paper magazine, called LetterMag.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISZtzdtnExMkqro_B_t6JFW-hUsQBpSgzSs7KZu2hTMXPiFLjhYbkPYtOMDL_ht7PrQwPCSlwoAHfaA9N1YcHw0VLvBMLTmlA2dB89fk_NsvIM7TndpmOg2j9bAbrnD5evFJZ3QXWSyk/s1600/letternet-advertisement.480.320.s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISZtzdtnExMkqro_B_t6JFW-hUsQBpSgzSs7KZu2hTMXPiFLjhYbkPYtOMDL_ht7PrQwPCSlwoAHfaA9N1YcHw0VLvBMLTmlA2dB89fk_NsvIM7TndpmOg2j9bAbrnD5evFJZ3QXWSyk/s400/letternet-advertisement.480.320.s.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="justify"> <a href="http://www.letternet.de/web/friends/home?langId=en_US">Letternet</a> is advertised as the world's largest penpal club.When you "arrive" at their website you can look through their news and updates. However, for all of the features to become available to you, you will need to <a href="http://www.letternet.de/web/friends/login">register</a>.You fill out their application and in a couple of days you will receive the activation code in your snail mail. You can read in the <a href="http://www.letternet.de/web/friends/faq">FAQ questions</a> that <span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>"Letternet is both an online magazine and a network of pen pals, so Lettermag was discontinued when Letternet was created."</em>. </span></div><div align="justify">And there you have it - the connection between Letternet, Lettermag and Deutsche Post and why the search engines are giving the same search results. I will try to get a hold of the new online magazine of Letternet and I will be back with a review real soon!</div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com114tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-37164781828263233562011-07-09T06:49:00.000-07:002011-07-09T06:49:54.235-07:00Letter Mag<div align="justify">Once, not so long ago, there was a time when a <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">free paper magazine</span></span> was on the market. Unfortunerely, like all good things that are for free, eventually they simply cease to exist. Why? My best bet is that the management wasn't able to sustain the magazine due to financial reasons, since we are more than well aware of the fact that the interest for such media is huge.</div>The magazine that I have is issue 2 from 2007. Here is the cover:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzw2wq3u5z_hnsvulBExKwztqVjog7HgVYSuwKzy4IhxQYRLq4C3VjmYjNSToN2YeW_576ZAWHKBd7c6xlomiwh3jdTDSBnjL7jBOQappq5r8avjFQhc6dNqt1FNUN9wW1uyvCtVo6U4/s1600/LetterMag_issue2_2007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzw2wq3u5z_hnsvulBExKwztqVjog7HgVYSuwKzy4IhxQYRLq4C3VjmYjNSToN2YeW_576ZAWHKBd7c6xlomiwh3jdTDSBnjL7jBOQappq5r8avjFQhc6dNqt1FNUN9wW1uyvCtVo6U4/s320/LetterMag_issue2_2007.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div align="justify">As you can see, it is made by the <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Deutsche Post</span></span> and was available for free for quite some time. The whole magazine is bilingual, which means that the articles are written in <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">both German and English</span></span>. It was a wonderful source of new ideas and topics to discuss. On the other hand, you could practice your German/English while learning about new things. The articles inside the issues were pretty diverse - there were of course some penpalling articles like "Tips for writing letters abroad":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0KQSyZGc1IluCW8MHOyLPK0RsiNODr4x9wqnjRrx2qQTFa5mSGRMJi1BPiMpDYyMRfuRaqV1LSuvMx5P95YMOefn7HI3kNd_cJFAnpf1Ihy9L0SbidDHrwIHpS0KotDogWFUD_KpvwY/s1600/tips_lettermag_issue2_2007jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0KQSyZGc1IluCW8MHOyLPK0RsiNODr4x9wqnjRrx2qQTFa5mSGRMJi1BPiMpDYyMRfuRaqV1LSuvMx5P95YMOefn7HI3kNd_cJFAnpf1Ihy9L0SbidDHrwIHpS0KotDogWFUD_KpvwY/s400/tips_lettermag_issue2_2007jpg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFXw3tvhoZM8EjBZ1LuHAU98z0vVFmNicRDBUGA4Q8ULmDN-I1-Wi8O0xPzLUTwcRnjcLH4EKqOl5el-TfNcJsWxwP6FjtqPO3hLXneB4vwfvb_wPYNeqGgfEqnYORQtuT2BAVlSsszw/s1600/tips_lettermag_issue2_2007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFXw3tvhoZM8EjBZ1LuHAU98z0vVFmNicRDBUGA4Q8ULmDN-I1-Wi8O0xPzLUTwcRnjcLH4EKqOl5el-TfNcJsWxwP6FjtqPO3hLXneB4vwfvb_wPYNeqGgfEqnYORQtuT2BAVlSsszw/s400/tips_lettermag_issue2_2007.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="justify"> But also there were pretty diverse topics discussed in the issue that have little to do with penpalling or correspondence. For example, in this very same issue there is an article about the Climate change:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL1rlXpxXegahIHF27ug9c3yZOfRYUndS_ag3OpLgumC7AdR1kFBZ9tOn5wuCvmTM78tlEIyKlJPuZG39tCHTJZ65dV1tpZqsf1N4BUH6emWEjrdy7iudsz-KX85kZG8ywVkhIA3ZIqO0/s1600/climate+change.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL1rlXpxXegahIHF27ug9c3yZOfRYUndS_ag3OpLgumC7AdR1kFBZ9tOn5wuCvmTM78tlEIyKlJPuZG39tCHTJZ65dV1tpZqsf1N4BUH6emWEjrdy7iudsz-KX85kZG8ywVkhIA3ZIqO0/s400/climate+change.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> and about Live Earth - Rock in the greenhouse:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoxEX5z3xavD64j5WQ-JnX489WKmDZ9HpGlQJ7sJjwu476eCYXC_xgFHnaDI-qoIOVzyNXzsIaaZbiWrwowQYbrlsH1-ez-AUOrCfXrR4Z0lQ1i_g_I567eTuO8hrm7qfWe5NaRMs3gw/s1600/Live_earth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoxEX5z3xavD64j5WQ-JnX489WKmDZ9HpGlQJ7sJjwu476eCYXC_xgFHnaDI-qoIOVzyNXzsIaaZbiWrwowQYbrlsH1-ez-AUOrCfXrR4Z0lQ1i_g_I567eTuO8hrm7qfWe5NaRMs3gw/s400/Live_earth.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="justify"> In conclusion, the magazine was pretty interesting in its topics and as well as the upside of being paper and free, delivered right to your doorstep. It could only get better than this, if the magazine actually made it through to nowadays. But you can't ask for everything, right?</div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-80106078294869958192011-05-11T14:09:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:26:31.607-07:00PenPal Interviews at Sandbook Net<table align="justify" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div align="justify">Would you like to be interviewed and share your penpalling experience with over 2500 people world-wide? We would like to question you about your penpalling experience and get to know you a bit better! The interviews will be published in the penpal magazine and of course here on our website.<br />
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</span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><u><span style="color: #a64d79;">How to participate?</span></u></span></span></b><b><br />
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Copy the questions and answer them! Then select several photos of you, your friends or country and then send us all of the information back to us at raiasandbook(at)gmail.com (just change the (at) with @).</div><div align="justify"><br />
<b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Interview Questions:</span></span></u></b></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">1. Hello there! How are you doing? Tell us more about yourself, your hobbies, personal life, interests.</div><div align="justify">2. If you have to describe yourself in only 5 words what would they be?</div><div align="justify">3. Tell us something about your town, city or country.</div><div align="justify">4. How did you start penpalling? When was that? And why did you decide to start Penpalling?</div><div align="justify">5. What do you like / dislike about Penpalling/correspondence? </div><div align="justify">6. How do your friends react when they discover you are into Penpalling? Are they also into it or they give you the “strange” faces? </div><div align="justify">7. Do you still stay in touch with your first penpal? Tell us about your first penpal even if you have lost touch with them. We might be able to help you locate him/her. </div><div align="justify">8. How many Penpals do you have? Where are they from? </div><div align="justify">9. Are you searching for new Penpals? If yes, please give us some contact information that we can publish in the magazine so that people can write to you back. </div><div align="justify">10. What are you looking for in a penpal?</div><div align="justify">11. Where do you find new Penpals from? Do you rely on FBs or Facebook or other websites/blogs.<br />
12. Tell us a funny/interesting story from your Penpalling experience? </div><div align="justify">13. How do you keep track of your mail? Share your tip on how to organize ourselves.</div><div align="justify">14. Do you swap things? Do you like sending gifts to friends? If yes, what is the funniest gift you have ever sent/received?<br />
15. Have you met a penpal? If so, let us know how the meeting went.<br />
16. What do you usually like writing/reading about in the letters?</div><div align="justify">17. When it comes to making cute and personal letters, everyone has his/her own style. Tell us your trick how to make a letter/envelope unique? Do you decorate it? If yes, how. Give us some tips on how to make the letters more interesting.<br />
18. Where do you buy your stationery supplies from? Do you prefer traditional shops or e-shops? If so, give us some links. </div><div align="justify"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><u>Photos:</u></span></span></b><br />
1) Send us a<u><b> photo(s) of yourself</b></u> so we can print it with the article and show that you are a real person! You can also include other photos of your friends and you, your mail and mailbox, etc. anything that you would like to share with us will be more than welcome!<br />
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2) Write us a <u><b>message in your own handwriting (sample handwriting)</b></u>, decorate the message if you like and finally snap a photo of the handwriting/message sample and email it to us so we can print it on the magazine’s pages and of course on our website and blog.</div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Your contact information:</span></span></u></b><br />
1) Your Email</div><div align="justify">2) Facebook user</div><div align="justify">3) Twitter</div><div align="justify">4) Blog/website, etc<br />
5) Any other profile or way you want people to contact you.</div>SandbookNethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14569291312720954600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-16153741387154517962011-02-23T04:47:00.000-08:002011-02-23T04:47:30.149-08:00PenPal Book latest issue<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">issue 31, Jan-Feb-March 2011</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Pen Pal Book - January-February-March issue <br />
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Here's the cover of the latest PenPal Book issue.<br />
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Hope you will enjoy it as much as we all do.<br />
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To get it contact:<br />
<i>Vandine69(at)<a href="http://yahoo.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a> Write as Subject PPB </i>that is the abbreviation for Pen Pal Book<i>.</i><br />
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<i>Have fun! </i>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-84906596510541271922010-12-31T06:27:00.000-08:002010-12-31T06:27:00.391-08:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilIF0Fz2KPssh4-IHppyXyXtTQN7FaZDXQvgT0luntZbRXdx3J9zX9ACAi9yeyNmP3ercAqTHw5wkFqe5cxxBBwx1cKbUheeIX_lhhyb5EdpEiGHoInVUQp64KJa1I2ICYJlJi9BckZUA/s1600/newyear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilIF0Fz2KPssh4-IHppyXyXtTQN7FaZDXQvgT0luntZbRXdx3J9zX9ACAi9yeyNmP3ercAqTHw5wkFqe5cxxBBwx1cKbUheeIX_lhhyb5EdpEiGHoInVUQp64KJa1I2ICYJlJi9BckZUA/s200/newyear.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Yes, again, it's this time of year, when we wish each other lots of success, happiness, health and of course love! I would go on and wish you all a wonderful 2011 filled with many big envelopes and packages of FB's swaps coming your way. Treasure your friends and family. And make every moment count. Enjoy penpalling and swapping, but above all make regular visits to this blog! Hope I made you laugh! Ho-ho-ho! New 2011, what do you have in store for us?</div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-48337020414520922452010-12-24T06:24:00.000-08:002010-12-24T06:24:00.315-08:00Merry Christmas!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1xYn0XNKi4U1vZbc-k-lHtNHJ0vVRN6z19c3ZyLyQjze_Nb0LLtwZO5dG7PJJV6Sa5WYPwnrIk1DrPACqaD54qyfpx-qDrBxWq0HnjYSuj8d4MqoD02Wzu6sNVM2ALB_YQ09Jgxw_2o/s1600/xmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE1xYn0XNKi4U1vZbc-k-lHtNHJ0vVRN6z19c3ZyLyQjze_Nb0LLtwZO5dG7PJJV6Sa5WYPwnrIk1DrPACqaD54qyfpx-qDrBxWq0HnjYSuj8d4MqoD02Wzu6sNVM2ALB_YQ09Jgxw_2o/s320/xmas.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Merry Christmas and Joyful Winter Holidays!</div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-61299293764930041632010-12-19T13:52:00.000-08:002010-12-19T13:52:00.135-08:00Pen Pal Book<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Hello and welcome to the review of Pen Pal Book: the newsletter.Here's the basic information that I came across to:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PenPal Book, Issue 29</td></tr>
</tbody></table><i>"It is hard to find people who still like to do snail mail, so I have a newsletter I send out in January, April, July & Oct. To get a copy it is $12 black or $18 color for one issue. To get 4 issues its $20 black or $25 color. Its like buying two and getting two FREE. Personal ads are FREE to be put in, but Business ads are 5 cents per word/ symbols/ name & address. I take Cash, Checks & Money orders in my name Kimberly Garigin. This is a hobby and not a business. </i><i>Address: Kimberly Garigin, 3726 Green Pond RD, Gray Court, SC 29645</i><br />
<i> If you buy 4 or more issues you get a 2 raffle tickets, a gift, a membership card, ads to hand out to friends, pals or family. Movie, comic & Music sheets to earn credit towards discounts on issues or get them FREE. Post cards of credit you can earn. A coupon to save money on your next order and more!!!</i><br />
<i> I do take PayPal payments just let me know through my email. If you don't send me money through your checking or banking account paypal takes $3.20 away from me for a fee. So if your sending through a credit card please add $3.20 to the total so I don't pay a fee...."</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
It sounded really interesting, so I went ahead and contacted the owner - Kimberly, who was really friendly and easy to talk to. She agreed to give me this exclusive interview for the readers of PenPal Magazine's Blog.<br />
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<div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><div><b>Maxine: </b>Hello, Kimberly and welcome to my blog PenPal Magazine.</div><div><b>Kimberly:</b> Hello, Maxine thanks for having me.</div></div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><div><b>Maxine:</b><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><b> </b>Tell us more about your newsletter? How did the idea about the newsletter came to be? <b> </b></span></span></div><div><b>Kimberly: </b>Back in 2002 I saw an ad for a newsletter. At that time I didn't know people did newsletters so I decided to subscribe to check it out. Once I started getting it, it looked weak. More like copies of papers. I was told by the Editor to send stuff in, but never saw my stuff. I even asked for the stuff back and didn't get it. So I decided to start my own! In Oct 2003 I had my first issue done and started advertising with other Editors from that newsletter and that's how my newsletter got off the computer. "The Pen Pal Book" has changed over the years due to subscribers giving me advise and I have been working with other Editors to make it more like a magazine. I have known most of the Editors from the start.</div></div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"> <div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div><b>Maxine:</b> Tell us more about the newsletter itself and a bit about its history? </div><div><b>Kimberly:</b> I started it Oct 2003, comes out Jan. Apr. July & Oct. I put Personal ads, as well as inmates ads even though I tell them my subscribers don't write to inmates. I put Business ads along with poems, stories, articles, and anything else that people send me in the mail, email or stuff I find that sound interesting. I even started doing raffles where subscribers can win!! I thought it would be cool to give out ribbons to subscribers who send stuff to me and at the end of the year hand out trophies for the subscriber that has been with me since the start, and who has sent me the most reviews and stuff. </div></div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div><b>Maxine:</b> What columns/pages can we expect in PenPal Book?</div><div><b>Kimberly:</b> I will always have Personal and business ads. I try to always have Quiz's, Fun pages. There is 3 months in the newsletters so my January issue has Jan, Feb & March. I also try to have Movie Reviews, Comics, TV Reviews, Music Reviews. I always have "Say it with words" where other subscribers can talk to each other or to me. I have Surveys that one subscriber sent me and Senior jokes, which doesn't always have jokes for kids so parents are ready!! I use to have Oprah & Sylvia Browne, but it was to time consuming for me since the past two years have been bad. In the past two issues have had Raffles, ribbons & trophies....When a Celebrity died and it is someone everyone knows like Patrick Swayze, Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon, Farrah Faucett, and many more we have lost this past year I try to do an article on that person or people. I even put their photos in.</div></div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div><b>Maxine:</b> Do you have any issues that are available on-line so that we can look at them before ordering?</div><div><b>Kimberly:</b> I am sending you 2 of my issues to look at and I could send a free issue for people to get in their e-mail account. To continue to get it in the e-mail it would be $7 plus $3 to ship any prizes they get in the raffles. This is 4 issues a year. As long as they saw the article from your website and send me their e-mail they can get one of my issues free depending on what issue I am on. Just have them put in the Subject PPB and let me know they saw my article and I will send them the issue as long as they can see Microsoft works. You can put my e-mail on your site. </div></div><div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Maxine:</b> One question that I am sure that most people are wondering, do you have to pay to get your ad in your newsletter?</div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Kimberly:</b> Personal ads are very welcome and there is no Fee, how ever since my newsletter is a Hobby so I make money off the Business ads and subscribers. The good news is when people subscribe they can earn credit for sending stuff to me. The credit to me is like money, 20 cents for a poem, Joining is $1.50, Jokes 10 cents and so forth. They can use the credit as soon as they get it or save them up to earn free issues or a one time free subscription. Once they get the free subscription after that they only pay half price for the subscriptions each year. All the money I get go towards Ink, paper, envelopes, postage, ribbons, trophies and many more. I am disabled so I don't make or get much money. I have been Pen palling since I was 15, so I know how important it is to help other people find pen pals.</div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Maxine:</b> Do you search for any guest writers? </div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Kimberly:</b> No, any of my subscribers can be writers. If someone who isn't a subscriber want to write for my newsletter they get to show off their talents because I don't have any way to pay them back since I am living off government money and using subscribers money to make the newsletters. If I get another Editors issue and I like what was put inside I will ask for permission than if its okay I put it in my newsletter and let subscribers know where I got the article or story from!!</div><div style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Maxine:</b>Thank you once again for this interview, Kimberly!</div><div></div></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">So my opinion about the Pen Pal Connection Paper Magazine:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Subscription:</b></u> Easy - just to place an order!</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Magazine type:</b></u> Paid, paper newsletter, issued quarterly. Upsides: paper (yeah!) and it also comes in digital version. </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Payment:</b></u> Cash, Checks or Money orders. You can pay for the newsletter via PayPal. Note that you will have to click on the "I will pay the fee" button as you send the money. Don't be cheap! For other payment options or questions contact: </span><i>Vandine69(at)yahoo.com Write as Subject PPB </i>that is the abbreviation for Pen Pal Book<i>.</i></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Information wise:</b></u> It includes articles and Ads and all the fun sections that Kimberley told us about.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Ads from Pen Pals:</b></u> Great job presenting the pen pals' ads! </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Design:</b></u> The design is a newsletter one, neat and clean. You can easily find your way to the sections that you can preview. You can contact the owner and get a sample from the magazine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><b>Check out their website:</b> <a href="http://kimber-enterprises.webs.com/">PenPal Book Website.</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-29773158658508090692010-12-18T14:22:00.000-08:002010-12-18T14:22:00.137-08:00Letters & Journals: The e-Newsletter (since June 2010) & Paper Magazine (2011)<div style="text-align: justify;">Letters & Journals - one of my favorite websites so far offer you an electronic newsletter and a promise for a paper magazine that is going to be released somewhere in 2011. Judging by the cover it will be a must see one! I am already excited about it and decided to share it will all of you out there!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><i>"The launch of the print version of Letters & Journals is scheduled for 2011. It’s been a long time in research and planning and the challenge in 2010 has been to build a following of potential subscribers. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: white;">To date we have a list of 2,300 names of possible subscribers/ buyers. Our goal is to get 5,000 names. Once we have a list of 5,000 names then we will begin approaching advertisers and following up with the ones who have already expressed interest (thank you!).<br />
If you know some people or groups who would be interested, please encourage them to sign up for the website, the e-newsletter or just let me know to add them to my Magazine Updates Only list. None of the lists are being sold or shared and there is no obligation."</i><span style="background-color: white;"> Text from: </span><a href="http://lettersandjournals.com/category/magazine-update" style="background-color: white;">Letters & Journals Official Blog.</a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">The magazine idea of "Letters and Journals" sounded awesome to me and with such a cover - I simply could not resist to send an email to Jackie and I asked about an exclusive interview. She responded really quickly and here is the sneak peek of what's coming our way in the first paper issue of the magazine "Letters and Journals".</span></b><br />
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<div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Maxine: Tell us more about how the idea about the website and of course the e-newsletter and the magazine came to be?</b></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Jackie: </b>I got the idea for a magazine on letter writing while completing my master's thesis on the history of letter writing in 2004. During my research I came across hundreds of newspaper and internet articles bemoaning the loss of letter writing. These articles were written by people who love letter writing and miss it in their lives and I remember thinking, 'Who are all these people (like me) who love letter writing? Wouldn't it be great if we had a community or a magazine where we could share our appreciation of this hobby?' And that got me to thinking that there should be one. Then a light bulb went off and I thought 'Why don't I do one?' I have some related background (BA in English, worked on HS and college newspapers, bookstore manager for 10 yrs and district manager for a book company for 7 years, love the printed word, letters and mail and soon I will have my Master's degree in Communication (which I have now).</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;">Adding journals seemed a natural fit as it's not just letters/mail that I love, but also pens, notebooks, journals, ink, pencils, postcards, stamps, etc.</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;">So began my research into how to start a magazine. Reading books, searching online, noting ideas in other magazines that would work, talking to others who have done it (Kim at Faerie Magazine, Lydia at Performing Songwriter magazine and Cathy Scheibe of Toy Farmer magazine who is from ND (like me). Finding blogs and groups by people with the same interest. Joining groups like Exceptional Women in Publishing and the MN Magazine Periodical Association. Attending conferences as my budget allows. </div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;">Thinking big and starting small. An example of this is designing my perfect magazine in my head and then listing what makes it exceptional. Next, I choose one aspect of that and find out what I need to do to make it happen. In this case, I spoke to printers at a conference and got feedback on some of my ideas (quarterly issues, perfect bound, wt of the paper). I went to a paper show courtesy of my graphic designer who attends these regularly and was kind enough to ask me if I wanted to attend one with her.</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;">The website was a natural choice since it's something I can do right away without the funds like I'll need to print the magazine. Also, for my day job I work at a website company that happens to cater to publishers. It's a small company and our president is brilliant. I have learned a lot about what to do/not do. If only I could afford them. Ha!</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><br />
<b>Maxine:A question that I am sure everyone will be asking, when is the paper magazine going to be released? </b></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Jackie:</b> I hope to have a print edition out sometime in 2011. At this point it is looking to be later in the year. I have the editor and art director ready to go, but what's missing at this point is having enough people to sell it to. Apparently, where a lot of new publishers go wrong is to create a magazine that doesn't have enough subscribers to sustain it. But it's hard to get all the subscribers you can when the magazine isn't around to show them all it can be. So it's been a longer process than I had hoped, but we're more than halfway to our goal of 5,000 interested people (potential subscribers). Hardly a day goes by that I don't hear from someone expressing interest in the magazine.</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><br />
<b>Maxine: Can you tell us more about the topics/sections that are going to be included in the paper version?</b></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Jackie:</b> I am continually adding to my list of topics for the print magazine! It surprises people how many topics there are. And since the magazine will only always be quarterly, we hope to keep the quality of the stories top notch. Here are some examples. </div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>For the Paper Enthusiast</i> - Product Reviews </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>From the Desk of…</i> - Writing areas of famous people and L&J readers</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>L&J Online</i>- Highlights of online only content available to all</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>City by City Guide to Stationery Stores</i>- Features reviews, pictures, highlights of stationery stores</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Fan Mail</i>- Who gets it? How has it changed? What does it look like today? 20 years ago?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Calendar</i>- Online contests (monthly), conferences, seminars, trade shows, retreats</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Travel</i>- Writing retreats, journal workshops, conferences, trade shows, seminars</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Exotic Postmarks-</i> History of postmarks, stamp collecting, postcards, foreign mail</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Pen Pal Corner</i>- Profile of pen pals, tools for writer, how to find/become one, class assignments</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Letters in the Attic</i>- found collections of letters, genealogy, saved letters, letters bought at an auction</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Famous Letter Collections</i>- Excerpts/highlights from books on letter collections</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Mail Art</i>- What it is, how to, reviews of mail art/artists</div><div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Scrapbook Journals</i>- Journaling for scrapbook enthusiasts</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Journal Type- </i>Experiment with different journals (Nature, Daily, Art, Travel, Child, etc)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Fun with Day Planners- Review of different types of people’s planners</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Famous Journal Collections</i>- Excerpts/highlights from famous journals</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i>Blog</i>- The online journal experience</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Letter Writing and Pen Pal Blogs</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div></div></div><b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;">Maxine Is the paper magazine going to be a paid one? If so, any estimates about pages/prices that you can share with us?</span></b><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Jackie:</b> If all goes according to plan the magazine will retail for $7.99 or $8.99. Ideally we would offer electronic copy at a cheaper rate (and free if you purchase a subscription which will probably be $25-$30 for an annual subscripton. This will depend on timing, advertising, etc. so is subject to change, but that is what I am estimating at this point.</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Maxine:Are there going to be PenPal and Swappers Ads in the magazine?</b></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Jackie:</b> I am undecided on this. There are so many other places where you can advertise for free, I'm not sure that people would pay for a personal ad. But you never know and there is always on online option down the road, in which case, it would be free.</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Maxine: Do you plan to release "samples" of the magazine, so our readers can check them out first before ordering the magazine? </b></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Jackie:</b> Yes. I am at the very beginning stages of putting together a zine which I would like to offer online and in print. I see this as a miniature version of the magazine.</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;">Also, if I could find a magazine sponsor who would want to partner with L&J for the premiere edition and foot the bill for printing a limited run, then we could give those away as samples to the first 5,000 or 10,000 people who sent in their mailing address (or confirmed the address already on file). Possibly the lucky recipients would have to pay $2 or so for postage, but until a sponsor is found, that is all hypothetical.</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Maxine: Once again, thank you for agreeing to be featured in the blog. I really enjoyed the idea about the interview, so that we can jazz up the whole blog entry about Letters and Journals. Needless to say that I am a huge fan of your website! Keep up the amazing work!</b></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: black;"><b>Jackie: </b>Thank you for the opportunity to help get the word out about L&J! Thanks also for supporting other letter writing publications. I had not seen your site before. It's very well done and I think a lot of people will find it useful as well.</div><div style="color: black;"> </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">So my opinion about Letters&Journals: the e-newsletter and the paper magazine:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b><br />
</b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Subscription:</b></u> Easy - just get on their website: <a href="http://lettersandjournals.com/">http://lettersandjournals.com</a></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Magazine type:</b></u> Prelaunch state of the paper version. Waiting anxiously to see it in 2011. For now you will have to settle with the e-newsletter, which covers interesting stories and updates from the site itself.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Payment:</b></u> Free e-newsletter. The paper magazine will be paid.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Information wise:</b></u> e-newsletter: includes updates and interesting topics.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Sections in the magazine:</b></u> It looks like it will be the go-to magazine of everything that's cool and new in regards from writing supplies to journals and journal keeping.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Design:</b></u> Pretty Good judging by the cover of the paper issue. E-newsletter: cute! Check out previous newsletters on their website!</span></div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-82825161431784337412010-12-17T01:58:00.000-08:002010-12-17T01:58:00.096-08:00Signal PenPal magazine<div style="text-align: justify;">If you have actually tried to "Ask Google" about "Pen Pal Magazine", you probably have noticed that the first couple of pages from the search results are dedicated to Signal, which is a pen pal magazine established in the 1960s. Over the years their "newspaper" design changed to a more "newsletter"-ish one and in the 1990s they branched out creating multiple regional magazines under the same name. Maybe that together with the long existence of the magazine are the reason why you will find that the words form the Google search will almost always associate with "Signal".</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.phnet.fi/public/signal/vanhat/si2000-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.phnet.fi/public/signal/vanhat/si2000-1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is how the issue looked in 2000. If you click <a href="http://www.signalpenpals.net/signalhistory2000-2008.htm">here</a> you will see the covers from the early 2000s to nowadays. Saying nowadays though is a bit relative, since the last issue that they have uploaded on the website is from 2008. Still even if it is called a magazine, I think that a newsletter is more the name that they should have gone with. Their main focus and essential objective is publishing PenPal ads from around the world. However, they don't make the clear distinction of what a PenPal newsletter is and what's a Dating Newsletter. If you look at the ads, you will find that the people who had posted the ads are suggesting that they are searching more or less for a relationship than pure penpal-ship. Which is annoying for us, the true PenPal-ers who really want nothing but a friendship with the person whom we are writing, too. I wouldn't have reviewed the newsletter if I haven't pointed out that you can see a tendency for the ads to be place mostly from African countries. No offense to anyone. I am just cautious with such magazines since I hate getting "romance" mail or "please send me money" type of letters in my mail box. We all have our hardships, so please, for crying out loud, don't abuse penpalling media to get a sponsor, marriage or investments. We all know those investment scams.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.signalpenpals.net/images/signal08july.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.signalpenpals.net/images/signal08july.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>And this is the cover from the issue from 2008. And here's some info posted on their website in regards to the way of ordering it:<br />
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<div style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"<b>BUY FRESH NEW <br />
SIGNAL PENPAL MAGAZINE</b> <br />
- issue 2, 2008 * volume 49 <br />
- b&w digitally duplicated, multicolor cover <br />
- 16 pages, size 210x297 mm <br />
- about 400 penpals, a few photos <br />
- texts: computer and laserprinter <br />
- issueance date: July 2008 <br />
- Sample US$ 5, Euro 5 or 10 International Reply Coupons ppd, airmail US$ 1, Euro 1 or 2 IRCs extra."</div><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">So my opinion about The Friendship Club Newsletter:</span></b><br />
<div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Subscription:</b></u> I haven't placed one myself. Since I couldn't find any relevant information for 2010 or even 2009, I think that they had stopped releasing it.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Magazine type:</b></u> paper newsletter, paid, monthly released.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Payment:</b></u> International Reply coupons (IRC's - I have no idea how they work. Never used them!)</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Information wise:</b></u> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It presents only PenPal Ads!</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Ads from Pen Pals:</b></u>Publishing an Ad here might get you unwanted marriage proposals, begging you mail for money or scam letters for investment opportunities (I read that several people were complaining about issues like that. If you want to try it / read the testimonies yourself - just use Google).</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Design:</b></u> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">You can pretty much get the feeling of the design of the magazine when you look at the front pages! </span></div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-1479536326500172992010-12-15T13:20:00.000-08:002010-12-17T06:28:55.001-08:00PenPal Connection Paper Magazine:<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Welcome to yet another review of Pen Pal Media. This time we are going to take a look at a paper magazine, called Pen Pal Connections (by Dawn Thomas).<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Here's some information about the magazine:</b></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; text-align: justify;"><i>"The Pen Pal Connection is a group for people who love to snail mail pen pal. We share pen pal stories, the pen pal experience, tips on letter writing, organizing your pen pals, pals looking for more pen pals & much more.<br />
The Pen Pal Connection is a quarterly published magazine. In this group we can also submit articles and stories for publication, receive magazine updates, announcements & much more. <br />
The Pen Pal Connection is $5.00 for a sample copy USA only ($6.00 US funds only for International orders)<br />
One year subscription $18.00 (4 issues) (One year for International orders $25.00 US Funds only)"</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">So my opinion about the Pen Pal Connection Paper Magazine:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Subscription:</b></u> Easy - just get in touch with the team!</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Magazine type:</b></u> Paid, paper magazine, issued quarterly. You can pretty much make the conclusions yourself - advantages: paper (yeah!), disadvantages - you have to pay for the issues. Shipping is included. Keep in mind that each issue is 28 to 32 pages long. Guess that it comes pricey to run a paper magazine!<u><b> Payment:</b></u> Checks or Money orders. That makes it hard to get from outside the US. However, you can contact the owner and see if other payment options are available.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Information wise:</b></u> It includes articles and Ads - quite well maintained.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Ads from Pen Pals:</b></u> Good job presenting the pen pals! </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Design:</b></u> You can get a feeling of the magazine's design from the photos that I have included. Sadly, they have not released officially other photos and I can't upload you photos from inside the magazine as they are their property. Hope it makes sense. But overall you can get a general idea of the magazine's design from its cover.</span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Join their yahoo group at: <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pen-pal-connection/">Y! Group: PenPalConnections. </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Connect with them via Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Farmington-MI/Pen-Pal-Connection/139562442740042?v=info&ref=ts">PenPal Connections on Facebook</a></div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-23025354993615735582010-12-09T01:33:00.000-08:002010-12-09T01:33:16.906-08:00The PenPal Newsletter vol. 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://a.imageshack.us/img442/9775/newletter.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="89" src="http://a.imageshack.us/img442/9775/newletter.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I have subscribed for Jeanne's Newsletter. The form is easy to fill out and you can find it by checking out the link: "<a href="http://www.wix.com/bruehwuerfel/penpal">The PenPal Newsletter Subscription</a>". On her website you can find out the ways to <a href="http://www.wix.com/bruehwuerfel/penpal">participate</a> in the newsletter, find a new friend and tons of other cool things. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">After subscription you will receive the newsletter in your email box (don't forget to check out the junk folder in your email as mine came in it). Just mark it "Not Spam" and you won't have any other problems with receiving it ever again. The first volume came out on Nov 13, 2010 and it included editorial, short pen pal list, interesting thoughts and sections such as web page of the week and book of the week. Moreover there was a section about a true penpal's story.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b>Here's the Editorial of the newsletter:</b><br />
<div style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i>"Dear Readers,</i> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(207, 226, 243);"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Firstly, thanks a lot for signing up for the Penpal Newsletter!<br />
Sorry for sending it out awfully late but I had some job issues and I couldn't come online a lot.<br />
I know, maybe everything looks a little bit messy but I hope by time, I will get better. Since many years I wanted to create a Penpal Web page but my web design and coding skills are very limited. So, I decided to create this Newsletter. Maybe it's is a little outdated but hopefully, you will enjoy it anyway. In advance, I also want to say sorry about my spelling, I am not a native English speaker but I try my best to write in proper English. However, sometimes, I have really wired typos, which I even don't notice after reading the text for 100 times but after clicking the sending button..<br />
Now, I also want to explain a little bit about the sections in the Penpal Newsletter.<br />
The Penpal List- I guess, I don't need to explain what you can find there.:) The first list is small but fine. I hope in future more readers of the Penpal Newsletter will post their add here too. We have already many readers but I guess, they want to check out how the Newsletters looks like and so on. </span></i></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(207, 226, 243);"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Book & Webpage of the Week - in this section I will add one of my or one of the readers Book & Webpage review.</span></i></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(207, 226, 243);"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">In future I want add some more stuff. If you have any ideas, just let me know.</span></i></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Now, I wish you a nice reading.<br />
Best wishes, Jeanne"</span></i></div><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(234, 209, 220);"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">So my opinion about the Pen Pal Newsletter vol 1:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Subscription:</b></u> Easy to do - it doesn't take a lot of time!</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Newsletter type:</b></u> Free digital newsletter, monthly (or at least I hope it is a monthly one).</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Information wise:</b></u> The information is presented on clear English and in form that anyone can understand it. If more people participate in the newsletter, I have big hopes for it!</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Ads from Pen Pals:</b></u> good job presenting the pen pals (since it is the very first volume of the e-newsletter, I assume that when people get to know it, it will become more diverse. However, I am wondering if Jeanne posts more ads the whole newsletter design will get to become a long-sheet wise, so I guess we'd have to wait for the December volume to come out and see how things are done there).</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Design: </b></u>the newsletter is table format, so don't expect luxurious images or huge articles. After all, it has to be sent out via email so bear with it.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
</span></div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-25650378010675833102010-12-08T01:10:00.000-08:002010-12-17T06:23:01.673-08:00The Friendship Club Newsletter<div style="text-align: justify;">I landed on an advertisement for this newsletter and it simply took my whole attention.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Hello, my name is Renee. I have a pen pal club called The Friendship Club that has around since 1989. Contact Renee at sweetpea32873(at) aol.com if you would like to join, have questions or would like to sent in an ad or submissions for upcoming newsletters which are published once a month. Cost to join is $3.00 per current issue or $36 for a year (12 issues). I accept cash, money order or PayPal. Submissions are printed for free. No prisoners please! Write or send payment to:<br />
<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> <div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCij_nRwrQeQ27kW1UvWNrkEAgyTCS0E3TN2QoQpe-cSYOs2SdrilCoZ87ckgs3E_jqBP6hVUW5ZmtVdYg87R5zJUT83y0TWfhBi1WNj6nYV6Gc8Bm69_g7BkczuWbvzXkKa_ugjtSYo8/s1600/feather2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCij_nRwrQeQ27kW1UvWNrkEAgyTCS0E3TN2QoQpe-cSYOs2SdrilCoZ87ckgs3E_jqBP6hVUW5ZmtVdYg87R5zJUT83y0TWfhBi1WNj6nYV6Gc8Bm69_g7BkczuWbvzXkKa_ugjtSYo8/s200/feather2.jpg" width="200" /></a>The Friendship Club</div><div>c/o Renee Akridge</div><div>719 Latimer Ave.</div><div>LaGrange, KY 40031, USA"</div></span> </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was amazed! Since 1989!!! That's almost my entire penpalling career and I have never heard about it! It was time to take matters in my own hands and correct my knowledge. As I was really curious about the newsletter, I immediately contacted the owner.<br />
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<div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Maxine: </b>Hello, Renee and welcome to my blog PenPal Magazine.<br />
<b>Renee: </b>Thank you, Maxine, for making my newsletter a part of your blog. I am really excited to be part of it. <br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Maxine:</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><b> </b>Tell us more about your newsletter? How did the idea about the newsletter came to be? <b> </b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;"><b>Renee:</b> Well I wanted to make a club with a name that can effect pen pal and making friends in the world and came up with this. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Maxine:</b> How did you manage to keep the newsletter going for over 20 years?</div><div style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small;"><div><b>Renee: </b>It is hard, believe me. But I am dedicated pen pal who would not stop promoting our wonderful hobby! I'm trying to make it work.</div><div></div><div><b>Maxine:</b> Tell us more about the newsletter itself and a bit about its history? </div><div><b>Renee:</b> When Friendship Club Newsletter started out, it was completely free. Soon we reached 100 members! Since we are a paper newsletter (postal version) with a cover, I needed to start charging for it as I wasn't able to afford doing it for free. There are a lot of expenses that you need to keep track of when doing a paper magazine - such as ink for printing, postage expenses, etc. That's how the newsletter became paid paper one. The number of our members has gotten smaller since then.</div><div></div><div><b>Maxine:</b> What columns/pages can we expect in Friendship Club Newsletter (FCN)?</div><div><b>Renee:</b> We have<span style="color: black;"> editorial, also polls, traditions/birthday event section, recipes, jokes, pen pal ads, ads, poems and stories.</span></div><div></div><div><b>Maxine:</b> Do you have any issues that are available online so that we can look at them before ordering?</div><div><b>Renee:</b> I do email sample copies that are just a couple of pages of the newsletter without the cover. The full version (whole newsletter) is shipped by snail mail after your order and it includes a cover page and any extra pages added. I use my computer to make the newsletters and print them out. <b> </b><br />
<b>Maxine:</b> One question that I am sure that most people are wondering, do you have to pay to get your ad in your newsletter?<br />
<b>Renee: </b>No! All ads are free to send in and print.<br />
<b>Maxine:</b> Do you search for any guest writers?<br />
<b>Renee:</b> Yes! We have some guest writers who send in an article every month. I am always searching for new guest writers.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">So my opinion about The Friendship Club Newsletter:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Subscription:</b></u> Easy, fast and friend - just contact the owner. Renee replies really fast to any inquires about the newsletter in a very friendly manner!<br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Magazine type:</b></u> newsletter, paid, paper, monthly released.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Payment:</b></u> Cash, money order, check, PayPal.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Information wise:</b></u> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting sections: </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">polls, traditions/birthday event section, recipes, jokes, pen pal ads, ads, poems and stories. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Ads from Pen Pals:</b></u> Yes! </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Design:</b></u> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Newsletter type. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><b><u>Website:</u> </b>http://thefriendshipclubtfc.webs.com/ </span></div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-62418151059708134942010-12-07T01:30:00.000-08:002010-12-07T01:30:00.476-08:00Pen Pal Video by Glass Completely Empty Productions<div style="text-align: justify;">I have been pen-palling for as long as I can remember. I was fascinated by the world of pen-palling since it was my get away place. Growing up, I wasn't one of the popular girls in school. I realized that I wasn't ugly or dorky back then. I was simply shy and let's say "creative" in my own way (I was writing poems). Yeah, I know how geeky that might sound and as nothing came out of it (in terms of being published), I simply stopped writing them. But my hands were itching to start doing something else - creative and in the same time dealing with my hobby - writing. You can easily guess where my interest ultimately lead me to pen-palling. The Question remains: Are you crazy about letters? Do I hear a "Yes"? Great! Then read this post really carefully and help make the change to someone's life. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1137.snc4/149987_457530256303_569971303_5599125_6611719_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1137.snc4/149987_457530256303_569971303_5599125_6611719_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UIStory_Message">Log onto Facebook and find <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/group.php?gid=108169829217293">Glass Completely Empty Productions</a> or simply e-mail Rae at: rae @ glasscompletelyempty.co.uk (remove the spaces either side of the @)<b> </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><b>Deadline </b>for emailing Rae and to be involved with the pen-palling film is <b>1st January 2011</b>. So secure your place in this wonderful documentary that will be around for the next generations and for everyone who would love to get a peek of what is it to be a <span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"></span>pen pal!</span></span></div><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="background-color: #fff2cc; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UIStory_Message">The Glass Completely Empty Products are also searching for:</span><br />
* Vendors (i.e. stationery/label sellers)<br />
* Authors who have written books, articles & poems on pen-palling<br />
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issue 1, November 2010</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">For the site's 2nd anniversary, the team of Sandbook.Net put together a digital magazine. They have promised to make 3 issues that are released on monthly basis and on the 11th of each month. So the first issue of the magazine is out and you can download it from their website - <a href="http://sandbook.net/index.php/magazine/this-issue">SandbookNet The PenPal and Swappers Magazine</a>. You can pretty much suspect that the Magazine button will present a huge interest to any pen pal or swapper as it has a lot of cool articles and ideas about pen-paling.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite the fact that initially it was announced that the issue will arrive in your mailbox as an attachment, later SandbookNet made it clear that due to the overall size of the document (a pdf document) they can't send it through the email. So you have to do it yourself. That's a minor setback, but hey, once you open the luxurious issue you will know that everything has been worth the download and the wait!<br />
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Letter Insider: The Do's and Dont's in PenPalling:<br />
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Cover Story: How to make nice and neat FB's:<br />
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Simplicity Embellished - the best lifestyle blog that also happens to deal with correspondence. Check our the blog itself here: <a href="http://www.simplicityembellished.com/">www.SimplicityEmbellished.com</a><br />
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Samantha's Thoughts: a mother, a penpal and a writer:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZBm4RNi2BqZNtC-fGl_9Q8qNTqTsEeWg6AIVcT536LwiKLF0BwHvfGG70s10KIPGuowEQMq4q2Hli38m9bJcr0H1xVprlmP8da2-bJd-v52SPSJJRagLYfMf7omCAOzOfc4NhNfhU1Ms/s400/samanthasthoughts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLZBm4RNi2BqZNtC-fGl_9Q8qNTqTsEeWg6AIVcT536LwiKLF0BwHvfGG70s10KIPGuowEQMq4q2Hli38m9bJcr0H1xVprlmP8da2-bJd-v52SPSJJRagLYfMf7omCAOzOfc4NhNfhU1Ms/s400/samanthasthoughts.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Facebook Discussion: How did I start PenPalling?<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDAq0XMinrXSWQZ6MOloJYLfoyh8WQNvdmwefiUx1xmJzn0mUz71bmtCH9z-7aK97eHmadWswWCRItpTDzD4CTvPBLAtARDM80bBHRl7FprmDtFJEsd4wNp2K-vveYsmJvZz6IeoeMjHc6/s400/howdidistartpenpalling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDAq0XMinrXSWQZ6MOloJYLfoyh8WQNvdmwefiUx1xmJzn0mUz71bmtCH9z-7aK97eHmadWswWCRItpTDzD4CTvPBLAtARDM80bBHRl7FprmDtFJEsd4wNp2K-vveYsmJvZz6IeoeMjHc6/s400/howdidistartpenpalling.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>For more interesting articles, traditions and correspondence tips, check out the whole SandbookNet PenPal and Swappers Magazine - issue 1, available for download on <a href="http://www.sandbook.net/">www.Sandbook.Net</a> website. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b><br />
</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">So my opinion about it:</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Subscription:</b></u> Easy to do - however you are subscribing only for a notification on when and how to download the magazine. As this notification is distributed as a mass message and as such can arrive in your Spam Folder, so check it out. Once you click it "Not Spam" you will have no problems with the next messages from the <a href="http://sandbook.net/">Sandbook.Net</a> Team. </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Newsletter type:</b></u> Free digital, monthly Pen Pal Magazine (I hope that they will continue releasing it after the 3 months initial / testing period).</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Information wise:</b></u> Many interesting articles divided by topic. The team ensures that all Guest Authors write different topics as they vet them beforehand. The topics are diverse enough so that you can read tips on how to write letters, how to be a better pen pal, travel around the world to visit new cultures and get to know new traditions. Moreover, they present Pen Pal of the Month (a contest that is held on their website), Fun Pages, Recipes, Relationship Section and tons more. There are some typos that you will be able to see, but overall a really professional magazine and I am anxiously waiting for issue 2 that, if the schedule is right, should be released on Dec 11, 2010.</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Ads from Pen Pals:</b></u> The Ads section is in the middle of the magazine - you can find different ads from around the globe. Moreover, you can publish a Lost Pen Pal Ad. Pretty cool, huh?</span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b> </b></u></span></div><div style="background-color: #ead1dc; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><b>Design:</b></u> The magazine is done really professional. Behind the SandbookNet Team as we later on learned is Gaya Designs, who are responsible for the nice and cute designs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I can't say more than just leave you to the wonderful pages of <a href="http://sandbook.net/">SandBook.Net</a>: The Magazine! </span></div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894256778617258788.post-20232068337576487042010-12-05T05:01:00.000-08:002010-12-05T05:01:22.321-08:00PenPal Magazine - what to expect<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9UhF1dD3sIcFpqqr1yAJtQD5T_YhGrckfpjC77rADZGVvV1_fvGHPEqP6-rbiWiwoaewzwY8g7X0l8nnbKRZBvGNUxduk0JmFEdI1LI5YRZBcdjLcgUuopyUMbw8cUhrRYYCcrP9ceY/s1600/PenPalMagazine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9UhF1dD3sIcFpqqr1yAJtQD5T_YhGrckfpjC77rADZGVvV1_fvGHPEqP6-rbiWiwoaewzwY8g7X0l8nnbKRZBvGNUxduk0JmFEdI1LI5YRZBcdjLcgUuopyUMbw8cUhrRYYCcrP9ceY/s320/PenPalMagazine.jpg" width="294" /></a></div>Hi, readers!<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">This blog will present to you all of the Active PenPal Magazines that there are out there: digital or paper, free or paid. We are going to show you inside information from within the pages of PenPal Magazines, newsletters or any form of organized penpal edition/issue. Yes, when you google "PenPal Magazines" there are a lot of links coming up, but unfortunetely those that Google rate highest are either outdated or simply floaded with "suspicious" Ads. You don't want to publish your snail mail or even email address there! Believe me! I have made that mistake! That's how the idea of this blog came to be! I hope that you will enjoy it as much as I will enjoy getting first hand interviews and reviews of magazines, newsletters and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, if you know a good PenPal Magazine or Newsletter or you happen to own one - comment here, or get back in touch with me. I would love to make a review of it on this blog or even interview you! The sky is the limit as they say!</div>PenPal_Addicthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16320275136374287628noreply@blogger.com8