Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

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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

  • California Dreaming

    TIME spotlights California on its cover this week. As a country, California would be with the G8 ( between Italy and Brazil, thus displacing BRIC with CRIC  i.e. California, Russia, India and China). Yet it has no world-class soccer team (despite having in-shored Beckham) just yet. That’s said, it is one of the brownest States…

  • Menage a trois

    A Nevada college couple and a car on top. Couple survives car crash in their house The DUI driver mistook the couple’s house for that of his ex-girlfriend’s. (Area developers must have used the same blue print to save on unit costs). Talking of cars. As soon as a Chinese company closed the Hummer deal,…

  • Fly-by

    Wake-up, Wright brothers! Some nap costs you nothing. Others a lot. Passengers and crew didn’t notice the flight (NW to MN last week) take much longer than scheduled? Are we there yet? No teenagers on board? No one anxiously inquired at the counter (“Hey I am tired of holding up the sign” says the limo…

  • Aimy Telephony

    Aimy’s birthday is this Friday. She was born in Burbank, while I was still trying to close a telephony deal (Centrex or “cloud telephony”). Phones get smaller (from brick phone to pocket phone) while Aimy grows bigger. She went with me to many direct sales events, Daddy and daughter singing “We Are the Champions” to…

  • Cheap computing

    Expensive Notebook leads to cheap Netbook which leads to cheap Notebook . A synthesis of high-tech dialectic. It’s a Compaq. With Window 7. I want one. At least I can type on it, surf the Net and hopefully use it outside, wi-fi permitted. There was a time when cheap laptop was a novelty idea ,…

  • Nano in the wind

    Kansas didn’t expect its slow number to be a hit, but there it was: Dust in the Wind. I am privy to have met three gentlemen, all Vietnamese nano technology scientists. Through them, I learn about our next frontier, not out there, but right here e.g. coconut shells from which carbon nano tubes can be…

  • 11/9

    3 weeks to go until the 20th anniversary of German Reunification. Two women ( German Chancellor and US Secretary of State) will be standing side-by-side, imprinting this iconic image on young female audience (how many left who watch network TV) that made the cut for TIME cover, up there with its current issue about WOMEN.…

  • Holes in the jeans

    Ms Lam, a designer, went to Africa on her sabbatical leave from American Eagles outfitter, part of her Create for a Cause project. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1013/p07s01-lign.html Her donated jeans got held up in Rwandan custom, to be “fumigated”  (there were holes in the jeans, so perhaps there had been termites?) “Those cost a lot to buy”, exclaimed…

  • Rev tone

    Public concerns for traffic safety create a new market for rev tones used in electric vehicles. People fear they cannot hear those noiseless cars approaching. So with multiple “ring tones” currently in the works, pedestrians might get more than what they were bargaining for: out-of-sync responses to false stimuli (young men get a kick  souping…

  • Load balancing

    A few years back, we got headlines like “women made strides with Nobel prizes“. And I remember hearing our shared winner of Economics said she studied ways which societies managed to share work load, from fisheries to farming. I assumed she was trying to crack the “non-zero sum” code, or something similar to Network Theory…