Unique invitation from Bill Gates, you can have?
Have you got a unique invitation from Bill Gates's Microsoft's Squire? In its website, www.thegatesnotes.com, Bill Gates once again emphasized the desire for a virtual world that has long not touched directly. Via Twitter, Bill Gates wanted to "vent" and share all the business experience during the start of business, maintain and promote the software industry giant Microsoft Inc..
Welcome to the Gates Notes. This is the opening sentence of Bill Gates's site, which launched last week Wednesday. A day earlier, Microsoft's founder is joined by Twitter. When beginning to post on this social networking, there are 3000 followers. Until yesterday afternoon, the number jumped to about 336,152 followers.
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Gates plans to send content three times a week on its site. "I feel happy to share the experience again and again," he told Cnet. He hopes to receive feedback from the public to help act as a philanthropist, after leaving the executive ranks of Microsoft.
Some records Gates at the address of his activities in www.thegatesnotes.com Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Photos and video trip to various parts of the world posted on the site. Gates explained, people love to see the organization's activities. A number of articles he also posts, the issue of education reform, swine flu pandemic, until a call to help the earthquake victims in Haiti.
There is also a podcast series Gates, who spoke about climate change and the challenge to develop alternative energy sources and environmentally friendly. These materials, he said, can be downloaded and is available also on iTunes and Zune Marketplace.
Gates explained, the issue of energy and climate change is not the main focus of the foundation. But he admitted his interest in the issues that are so global conversation. "My interest high on energy issues and will I point out again later," he said. Next month, he became speaker at the conference that discusses about this issue.
On that site there is also a conversation box, containing interviews with a number of media and frequently asked questions with students in several countries during a visit. For example, when Gates was interviewed by Time magazine and discuss the problems of capitalism and filantropisme connection. Or the time he and Fareed Zakaria spoke in GPS program on CNN television channels.
To CNET, Bill Gates admitted longing to a web presence, after no longer work full at Microsoft. He explained that he was dedicating all his time to the foundation set up with his wife. Still, many questions arise, what to do when not involved in the Microsoft.
When not at Microsoft, Bill Gates said, he often felt like returning to school. "Time spent much time studying the issues menggairahkanku," he said. He felt lucky in that environment and want to share thoughts, business experience and learn from others. Now the longing is fulfilled in Gates Notes. Bill Gates invited fans use the site and establish contacts on Twitter.
