The cover for female Indy Car driver Milka Dunno's new children's book.

The beautiful and intelligent Indy Car driver turned childrens book author, Milka Duno, will be signing her new book, “Go, Milka, Go!” on April 14th from 6-9PM at Libreria Martinez located in the Artists Village in Santa Ana at 216 N. Broadway.  Bring your kids, nieces, nephews, your camera, and meet Milka while supporting a pillar in the Orange County community and one of the few surviving independent book stores.  Here’s some more info on Milka.  http://bit.ly/bNv1qv

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Libreria Martinez-the bookstore that has been a long time Santa Ana, CA landmark- is owned by Rueben Martinez.  Rueben is a sought after speaker, literacy advocate, and is both a MacArthur and Chapman University Presidential Fellow, which are just two of his many awards and appointments.  Libreria Martinez has recently reopened at its new location 216 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA in the Artists Village.

Attention all So Cal business owners and tweeps. Clear your schedules on February 18th for the first ConnectOC event being held at the Costa Mesa Hilton. This event is bringing together all of he Orange County professionals to meet, mix, mingle, and more.

Founded by a few Orange County Professionals, ConnectOC was devised as a central portal of event-hosting for Orange County Networking throughout the year. The mission of ConnectOC is to use social media to connect, socialize, network and contribute in meaningful ways to each other, the Orange County community as well as the local economy.

Hit the jump for the full press release of the event or click the link to view a list of event sponsors that can be found on the group website: www.facebook.com/connectoc

RSVP and be sure not to miss this fantastic event!

CONNECTOC Event Rings in New Year at Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa

COSTA MESA, Calif., January 15, 2010 – Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa is ringing in the New Year in style by hosting ConnectOC’s inaugural event, Welcome to 2010, on Thursday, February 18 from 6:00pm-9:00pm. There is no charge for attendance.

The first 200 attendees will receive complimentary drink tickets along with appetizers. Goody bags of donated items from numerous Orange County businesses will be available for attendees on a first-come, first-serve basis. Nintendo Wii stations will be set-up throughout the venue and Hilton Executive Chef Chad Krahling has designed a specially priced, food and beverage menu for those who would like to order additional items.

“We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to use social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to broaden familiarity with our hotel,” says Christine Weijland, Hilton’s E-Commerce manager. With the event being leveraged primarily though social media, she said the hotel’s sales and marketing staff hopes to introduce the additional functionality of the hotel, its restaurant and meeting space to the local community.

Self-parking is $5 and all revenues will donated to Share Our Selves (www.shareourselves.org), a local charity battling homelessness and poverty. Numerous OC companies, restaurants and hotels have kindly donated items, giftcards, services, hotel stays and much more toward the silent auction, the evening’s primary fundraising venture.

“I’m happy to see so many of us local professionals using Social Media to stay in touch, be informed, and find opportunities. We are leading change, progress, and innovation.” said ConnectOC Co-founder Paul Tran, who is humbled by how many great businesses — despite 2009’s economic woes — are coming out to show love for great causes and for each other. “All of our attendees are in for a big treat, and if the positivity and community stimulus keeps up, so will our events!”

Mobo Media was excited to attend the ribbon cutting of Tranquil Tea Lounge in Fullerton today.

Owned by the brother/sister duo of Jonathan Munsayac and Michellee Phelps, they have brought a fresh new place to the downtown fullerton area. With over 85 kinds of tea, a simple selection of sandwiches, paninis, and sweets, TTL is a tea lovers dream and tea novices perfect place to develop your palette.

Read more of the review after the jump!

The Great Wall of Tea

The decor is simple, modern, and elegant which really enhances the “lounge” feel. The layout is open highlighted by the giant wall of product and teas that you can smell (smell the cool watermelon or the chocolate macadamian!) as well as a quaint conference room that is seperated by a nice frosted glass door.

margerhita sandwich, mixed greens, and gojiberry tea.

The food is great and simple, just like the teas. There’s no point in ordering anything but the Tranquil Tea Trio: your choice of sandwich, mixed or ceasar salad, and any one of the 85 teas served iced or hot) for $8. That’s a great value and it’s the freakin’ bomb-diggity.

The rest I’ll leave up to you to decide, but one thing I can tell you for sure is that I will be a repeat customer of Tranquil Tea lounge.

Hit them up on Twitter or become a fan of theirs on Facebook!

Mobo Media and Cantina Lounge are hosting a Tweetup in North OC on the last weekend before summer officially starts.  Grab your tweeps (twitter+peeps) and head on over to the Cantina Lounge in Fullerton for what’s sure to be a great time.  There may even be some twelebs (twitter+celebs) on the scene so bring your cameras!

Visit the #NOCTWEETUP page for details and RSVP information!