Thang Nguyen 555

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With some short-term relief work in Asia/Africa and long stint in Telecom, Thang also earned a B.A. at Pennsylvania State University. M.A. in Communication at Wheaton Graduate School, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communication at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Boston. In addition, he earned a CELTA – classes taken in Hanoi for cultural re-immersion.

Tag: tech and multi-cultural marketing

  • Prosumer of the Year

    You should be nominated Person of the Year. You save energy, drive less and only use the post office to send Christmas gifts. The rest of the year, you email, and cut down on phone chit chat. You drive smaller cars, bag groceries, water the lawn and take out the trash. You make your own…

  • Juggernaut

    Marketing department shouldn’t have all the fun. Now, management has a new tie:  jugaad , the adopted technique of invention on the fly, inshored from India.  Just as we have with “synergy”, “next level”, “continuous improvement” (Japanese). No doubt the business world has come across success stories from India, since the days of Y2K. We…

  • viva vevo

    7 notes, color spectrum, 1 and 0, fiber optic and stage lighting make good music video. And now you can view it on Vevo, courtesy of Google and Sony as a supplemental diet to your 17 years of TV viewing (statistically, life expectancy in this century is a little bit longer than last’s, but to…

  • Hanoi Hotel

    This past Thanksgiving in Virginia was quite a contrast to my previous one in Hanoi. Last year, I stayed at a Hanoi Hotel for more than four weeks, determined to get my Cambridge certification in English teaching. And there were only four other classmates who were from the States. The rest were from Australia, and…

  • River crossing

    TIME top ten. Mathematics. Princeton IAS Ph.D. Vietnamese. Ngo Bao Chau. Solved the 30-year lemma. Yet no picture. Come on! http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944416_1944435,00.html Wish life problems could be solved in a flash just like that. Where are we today without all the 80/20 rule, Moore’s law, fiber optic, Newtonian physics. Fuji came out with a 3-D pocket…

  • Uplink-Upload

    Remember Nightline when it first debut? Satellite uplink made possible real-time, split-screen dialogue, with multi-continental guests and in-studio moderator. Safer than appearing on Jerry Springer (which need at least two or three bouncers). Now we have video upload from crowd source.  We have moved beyond “lonely girl” in front of a fixed web cam, to…

  • Plenty of O2

    World leaders are meeting and aware that “this is it”, our generation’s chance to make a difference in the atmosphere so we can carry on in the blogosphere. It reminds me of the Bee Gee’s “Stay alive” in the 70’s. Boomers are not going to fade away in assisted-living arrangement (still have to drive up…

  • You’ve got comment!

    When lunching near Dulles Airport  years ago, we ran into some Teleglobe colleagues who had gone over to AOL. Back then, I looked at those guys with a bit of envy. After all, we were just a voice backbone. Those guys were in their honeymoon with Time Warner, both pipe and pipe dream. Now, this…

  • Feel Felt Found

    Those who have been in sales can relate to this: I know how you FEEL. I FELT the same way, but I FOUND (after trying that product /service the second time etc…) that…. Handle the objection, with empathy, but stray not from the formula. Milken was on CNBC just now (until my DirecTV signals got…

  • 79 vs 97

    1979 was the peaked year for the Big Three Networks. In fact, ABC came out with an all-star news anchoring format. 1997, the Internet emerged, first as a blip on the radar then video, voice and data all merged, with more users joining to create a whole new medium with the Net effect. Comcast cannot…