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   I know I'm behind the curve, but I've just discovered Facebook!! The girls and I have discovered great ways to stay in touch when we're not out shopping. Whether we're playing virtual games, posting pics of our family or just telling each other what we're doing, Facebook has transformed our lives.

Now this great Mio Buzz blog has its own Facebook fans page, so I can keep in touch with all my pals that love Mio as much as I do. Over the coming months there will be exclusive games and competitions for all of you who join the site. So join Mio Buzz on Facebook NOW and be among the first to enjoy these great surprises!

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Buzz Your Mio - Calling all writers

We want any and all readers of this blog to write a story or an article for us. It can be fact or fiction describing: how you use your Mio, how Mio products are built or any other subjects so long as it involves Mio’s products or alternatively you can add one the banners below on your own blog. In return we’ll enter your name into a monthly prize draw to win a banner for your blog and promotion of your blog on the Mio Buzz website.
To give you some idea of what we’re after, we’ve written this short story or you can review the other articles on this site.

How Mio's GPS products are made

Deep between the chrome and glass towers of Mio HQ, under crystal statues, and iconography of their glorious leader, hidden away in a white walled Faraday cage, there are men; bespectacled men with bottle-bottom glasses, working tirelessly to design beautifully crafted, thin, stylish devices that will look great  adorning living rooms, bedrooms or cars.

Once designed, these products have to be realized. Batteries, GPS receivers and other bits and pieces shipped from the supplier via underground waterways using customized peddle boats, powered by muscular legged Amazons.
The touch panel screens and plastic housings are constructed using the highest grade materials, smelted from nearby mines and formed in the foundries of the foothills of Taiwan.
Once the materials have been collected it’s time to put them together. This is done by a dedicated team of highly skilled fitters who slavishly put the fiddly components into ever smaller housing.
Completed products are boxed by elfish looking people and shipped to the 4 corners of the world by a bearded man and 6 reindeers.

The End

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Mio Twitter’s

I have no idea if tweeting is a good or easy thing to do. I think birds do it quite well, but that’s their job. But now I’m hearing that it’s something that I could do to. But what is it? Is it a form of whistling or something that’s done up a tree with a pair of binoculars or behind the bushes?  Will I be any good at it or does it take practice?

After further investigation it turns out that tweeting now means, posting message on Twitter. Ok, so now I’m either a twit or a tweeter, or at least I would be if I posted things on the Twitter website.

So what is Twitter? Well at first glance it’s another web 2.0 site designed to sap your time and make you a slave to your computer. Second glances reveal slightly more, like the ability to read news headlines, see what products a company is launching and see what banality you were missing out on before you logged in.

It is perhaps not surprising that it’s the second of these that Mio is concerned with. Mio are using their Twitter account to inform other Twits about their new product launches and other important consumer information.

I can, despite my cynicism, see its benefits. If a new product is launched or an author writes a new book people give almost instant feedback on it, and because it’s restricted to 140 characters it’s often a lot more meaningful and well thought out than a magazine review. Of course this is a little like panning for gold; you’ll sift an awful lot of sand before you find that nugget.

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