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Simply Charly, A “Rich and Vibrant” Website Launches “Ask The Expert,” A Free Resource
www.SimplyCharly.com has launched its “Ask the Expert” platform, an online resource that will connect students and general knowledge seekers with scholars and experts from around the world.
www.SimplyCharly.com, an educational suite of websites for students and teachers that brings to life, in a compelling and engaging manner, some of the most prominent historical figures, has launched its “Ask the Expert” platform, an online resource that will connect students and general knowledge seekers with scholars and experts from around the world.
These personalities, each a renowned expert in his or her field, can provide answers to questions relating to science, literature, philosophy, music, and other disciplines.
“This exciting new section of our website allows students to connect with leading scholars from around the globe by asking specific questions about history’s most notable movers and shakers, and receive accurate and timely responses ,” says Charles Carlini, founder of Simply Charly. “For example, if you’d like to know anything about Sigmund Freud, Tamas Pataki, Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia, will provide an answer. Or if you are intrigued by Salvador Dalí, Joseph Nuzzolo, founder and president of the Salvador Dalí Society, will address your question.”
In all, 30 experts are currently on hand to answer questions and provide valuable information;
First-time visitors to the site can simply register for a free account and visit the “Ask the Expert” section to submit their questions. Our experts will respond within 24-48 hours by posting answers on the “Ask the Expert” page of the Simply Charly website.
“We understand that searching the web may not always lead you to the answers you seek,” Carlini says. “That’s why we created our ‘Ask The Expert’ platform to connect those seeking answers or guidance with experts who specialize in a particular field or historical person . We are pleased to have partnered with such an illustrious team of scholars and look forward to working together to provide a valuable resource for students and general knowledge seekers worldwide.”
SIMPLY CHARLY LAUNCHES PODCAST SERIES
www.Simplycharly.com, an educational suite of websites for students and teachers that brings to life, in a compelling and engaging manner, some of the world’s most prominent historical figures, has launched a new podcast series called Culture Insight hosted by Roger Nelson.
The series of roughly 25-minute podcasts will feature interviews with authors and experts presenting their views on those individuals who have influenced our culture and enriched our lives. Bestselling author Gay Talese talks about how he and scores of other famous writers of his generation have been inspired by Ernest Hemingway. Physicist and author, Alan Lightman, explains Albert Einstein’s genius.
Other experts in their respective fields, including Jack Sullivan (Alfred Hitchcock), John Heiss (Igor Stravinsky), James Flannery (W.B. Yeats), Janna Levin (Kurt Gödel), John Darnton (Charles Darwin), and Kenneth Frampton (Le Corbusier), also share their unique insights into the lives and works of the groundbreaking individuals.
“The exclusive interviews reveal interesting and little known facts about these personalities,” says Charles Carlini, CEO of New York-based multimedia company, Carlini Group, who launched www.SimplyCharly.com in October 2007. “I developed the sites to be a fun, accessible, and interactive learning experience. Their aim is to buck the current educational trend that places emphasis on reading, writing and math at the expense of art, music and other personally enriching electives.” Eventually, www.SimplyCharly.com, which Teacher Web Magazine praised as “a rich, vibrant, and evolving resource,” will morph into dozens of sites dedicated to the masters of the arts, music, science, literature, philosophy, architecture, and politics.
New sites featuring Isaac Newton, Ludwig Beethoven, René Descartes, Niccolò Machiavelli, Ludwig Witgenstein, Mark Twain and Plato, among others, will be launched soon, making SimplyCharly a “comprehensive, one-stop portal to a wealth of information about each individual we present,” Carlini says. “Rather than seek out a disparate collection of links, we want the visitors to come to just one reliable, accurate and credible source – our website.”
To learn more about the series or to listen to a podcast, visit our podcast site.
TWEET TWEET – SIMPLY CHARLY IS ON TWITTER!
Simply Charly is on Twitter! First we spruced up our website to give you more info and interactive features. Now we’re also on Twitter, the social networking and microblogging service that is changing how people communicate.
It’s an experiment of sorts because we don’t know what kind of tweets (the 140-character-or-fewer text updates Twitter users share with each other) our visitors would like to get from us. We see it as a virtual water-cooler where you’ll get a bit of Simply Charly news, suggestions (from us and our community) for things to do and updates on all things Simply Charly.
If you’re already using Twitter, just follow “simplycharly” for our updates. We’re at www.twitter.com/simplycharly. And if you’re not already on Twitter, what are you waiting for? It’s incredibly easy to sign up, and just as easy to participate. You just send a text message or update on your page with an answer to one simple question: What are you doing?
So, um, what are you doing?
POPULAR WEB PORTAL SIMPLY CHARLY GETS COMPLETE MAKEOVER!
SIMPLY CHARLY, the popular web portal known for its exclusive, indepth interviews with the world’s leading authors and scholars, re-launches today with an updated look and a streamlined user interface.
Because of these compelling interviews and profiles of legendary writers, artists, scientists, and thinkers, the most current book reviews, news, podcasts, videos, and brain-teasing quizzes to test visitors’ knowledge, inquisitive web users have been making SIMPLY CHARLY their ‘go-to’ info hub since 2007.
Now, with the launch of the updated SIMPLY CHARLY, learning about the great historical figures of the world – like Einstein, Mozart, Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Freud, to name just a few – got even easier. Just point, click and learn!
“Our fun and engaging web site received more than a face-lift. We’ve improved our ability to serve our core audience,” said Charles Carlini, president and CEO of SIMPLY CHARLY. “In addition to providing visitors with useful, free information, Internet users can now read the latest news, book reviews, and so much more captivating content. We’ve also implemented an interactive web E-Store, so our subscribers can bring the learning home with just the click of a mouse.”
SIMPLY CHARLY goes live in its new format today at www.simplycharly.com. Log-on today to see what the buzz is about.
ONLINE INFOSITE SIMPLY CHARLY TO OFFER NEW IPHONE APPLICATION
SIMPLY CHARLY, the renowned educational web portal, announces a new application for Apple’s popular iPhone that will bring its wealth of information to users everywhere.
Users have been making SIMPLY CHARLY one of the web’s top research sites since it debuted in 2007.
Now, with the launch of the SIMPLY CHARLY IPHONE APPLICATION,
subscribers can harness the website’s extensive info base anywhere, anytime.
“We’re thrilled to make our huge database available to mobile users on the go,” said Charles Carlini, president and CEO of SIMPLY CHARLY. “The marriage of SIMPLY CHARLY and the Apple iPhone makes it even easier for subscribers to just point, click and learn. It’s an exciting combination!”
Once installed, SIMPLY CHARLY’S new iPhone application will bring the website’s acclaimed interface to users across the street or around the globe. Subscribers can read news, the latest book reviews, search
the site’s vast knowledge base of legendary artists, writers, scientists and thinkers, and shop for signature goods. All in the palms of their hands.
The new SIMPLY CHARLY IPHONE APPLICATION will be available as a free download beginning in late January . Simply click the ‘App Store’ widget on your iPhone, and search for SIMPLY CHARLY.
SIMPLY CHARLY
Where Great Minds Think (and Learn) Online!
SIMPLY CHARLY, A ‘RICH AND VIBRANT’ WEBSITE LAUNCHES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SERIES WITH RENOWNED EXPERTS
www.SimplyCharly.com, an educational suite of websites for students and teachers that brings to life, in a compelling and engaging manner, some of the world’s most prominent historical figures, has expanded its offerings to include exclusive interviews with famous authors and renowned scholars.
Bestselling author Gay Talese talks about how he and scores of other famous writers of his generation have been inspired by Ernest Hemingway. World-renowned astrophysicist and author, Dr. Michio Kaku, explains Albert Einstein’s genius.
Other experts in their respective fields, including Colin McGinn (William Shakespeare), Dr. Tamas Pataki (Sigmund Freud), Richard Schickel (Charlie Chaplin), Peter Bondanella (Federico Fellini), Gregory Chaitin (Kurt Gödel), and Simon Tormey (Karl Marx), also share their unique insights into the lives and works of the groundbreaking individuals.
“The exclusive interviews reveal interesting and little known facts about these personalities,” says Charles Carlini, CEO of New York-based multimedia company, Carlini Group, who launched www.SimplyCharly.com in October 2007. “I developed the sites to be a fun, accessible, and interactive learning experience. Their aim is to buck the current educational trend that places emphasis on reading, writing and math at the expense of art, music and other personally enriching electives.” Eventually, www.SimplyCharly.com, which Teacher Web Magazine praised as “a rich, vibrant, and evolving resource,” will morph into dozens of sites dedicated to the masters of the arts, music, science, literature, philosophy, architecture, and politics.
New sites featuring Charles Darwin, Amadeus Mozart, René Descartes, Niccolò Machiavelli, Ludwig Witgenstein, Isaac Newton and Plato, among others, will be launched soon, making SimplyCharly a “comprehensive, one-stop portal to a wealth of information about each individual we present,” Carlini says. “Rather than seek out a disparate collection of links, we want the visitors to come to just one reliable, accurate and credible source – our website.”
In addition to the already available features, such as complete histories of each personality, e-newsletter, forums, wiki, blog, “Ask the Expert” section, and an e-store, the sites will also present book reviews, starting with Richard Schickel’s newest work, Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies, posted on SimplyChaplin.com.
TEACHER WEB MAGAZINE REVIEWS SIMPLY CHARLY
Toby Cohen, a journalist for Teacher Web Magazine, an online magazine geared to school teachers, recently reviewed our site – Simply Charly. To read the full article, click here www.teacherwebmagazine.com.
LEADING ONLINE EDUCATION CONTENT PROVIDER ADDS SIMPLY
Thinkronize, a leader in the digital delivery of K-12 educational content has added Simply Charly to its award-winning search engine Nettrekker.
Thinkronize was first to market with its standards-based educational search engine, netTrekker d.i., the #1 educational search engine in K-12 schools. Utilizing the services of Academic Benchmarks, the premier provider of comprehensive standards-based K-12 educational databases, alignment tools, and integration services, netTrekker d.i. is currently used in over 19,000 schools nationwide. The company’s consumer product, netTrekker home, gives parents and students whose school or district has not yet purchased a netTrekker d.i. subscription access to its 180,000+ educator-selected resources.
Peers, educators, and parents have honored Thinkronize and the netTrekker product suite over 20 times for their contribution to education. Most recently, netTrekker d.i. was named the 2007 Best Education Solution in SIIA’s CODiE award competition. In addition, Thinkronize was named to the 2007 Inc. 5000 and 2006 Inc. 500 lists as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. The company currently serves over 10 million students in all 50 states, including adoptions by key districts and states nationwide.
KEEPING ARTS ALIVE AS SIMPLE AS SIMPLY CHARLY
New Company Aims to Make Arts Education Not Only Accessible But Also Fun
The Carlini Group, a fast-growing multimedia company spearheaded by musician and entrepreneur Charles Carlini, has launched a new online educational division that will focus on the art, science, music, literature, philosophy, architectural, political and economic world’s leading historical figures. Currently covering such legends as Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, W.B. Yeats, Pablo Picasso, Le Corbusier, Igor Stravinsky and Salvador Dali – and with dozens more planned for the near future, including Elvis, Napoleon, Kafka and Darwin – SIMPLY CHARLY’s mission is to become a one-stop source for everything one desires to know about the groundbreaking individuals it covers. Inquiring minds who would like to learn more about the historical world’s most notable movers and shakers can do so online at www.SimplyCharly.com.
When the Council for Basic Education – a nonprofit organization that advocates for liberal arts subjects – conducted a study a few years back, 33 percent of school principals predicted that they would witness decreases in the time their districts devote to the arts over the next two years. This trend was even more highly anticipated in schools with large percentages of minority students, where 42 percent of principals made the same dire prediction. Since that survey, those prognostications have, sadly, been becoming a reality in public schools across the nation. In the years since, liberal art subjects like foreign languages, music and art history have taken major hits but even other non-essential electives like political science and economics have experienced cutbacks.
As a musician himself, SIMPLY CHARLY’s founder, Charles Carlini, is personally pained by this arts-related educational decline…so much so that he decided to do something about it. Says Carlini of his latest entrepreneurial endeavor, “I developed the SIMPLY CHARLY suite of sites to be a fun, accessible, interactive and engaging learning experience. Designed for all ages, their aim is to buck the current educational trend that places an emphasis on reading, writing and math at the expense of art, music and other personally enriching electives.”
The SIMPLY CHARLY portals more than live up to their fun and engaging mission. The first thing that visitors to the sites will notice greeting them is a lively caricature version of the historical figure they’ve come to learn about. From there, a clean layout with “About,” “News,” “Multimedia,” “Works” and “Links” tabs points browsers to accurate and thorough coverage of the featured historical individual. In this way, SIMPLY CHARLY hopes to supplement the liberal arts education so many of today’s public schoolchildren are missing out on.
