Culture Profiles

A recent article about Culture Profiles to facilitate knowledge exchange in a global environment: Some ideas on how to facilitate the process of cultural awareness - it's about pretty simple stuff: getting to know about others, reflecting your own cultural background and showing it on the web and in networks...Feedback more than welcome!

Please note, this is a draft version!

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Web 2.0 - is it truly global?

The next generation of internet applications is discussed widely - in friends networks, in business networks, for enterprises - but this collaboration does not seem to be truly global...
Wikipedia is mainly English speaking, other networks also are mainly in English and otherwise country-specific...so where are the good examples of truly global networks and maybe even collaborative networks? Which are the aspects which make a global web 2.0 environment successful - still looking for good practises and samples!!!

GLIS Blog - Research News on Global Information Systems

Well, why starting another blog on information systems - well, I started this blog to provide some information for colleagues and students regarding Global Information Systems. Anyway, there are not too many reliable sources of information on the topic...so, let's see how this works out...

well, as a starting point on culture I can always recommend http://www.engrish.com/

On the first site, this might look funny but there are many things to consider when looking at it...why do we make fun of language issues? Why is English the lingua franca in many communities? How can we express ourself in business, education and leisure? Well, more on this to come soon...