Tara Hunt “The Whuffie Factor”, Fostering Communities via SlideShare

Made to Stick- Chip & Dan Health on SlideShare [iEvolution]

Accent Reduction Coach working with Steve Martin

Steve Martin working with accent reduction coach- hilarious!

Cinderella as PPT – how not to tell a fairy tale…

Image via Wikipedia Which child would sit still for Cinderella if it were presented this way? However, many business people make us sit through these kinds of presentations without putting themselves into the shoes of their listeners. Related articles by Zemanta When Cinderella needs an adjustable slipper: making shoes fit (fatchic.net)

Bush versus Obama – look how far we have come!

Recently, there was a clip on TV about Japanese business people learning English using Obama’s speeches as models. It is pretty clear why this is a new trend and why they didn’t use Bushisms. This is George Bush speaking, it sums up what we had to listen to for 8 years! George Bush’s Speech Oh, [...]

Communicating The American Way – Daily Machete review

Mike Thomas, who reviews business related books, reviewed ours, which has just come out in January 2008. I have to express my appreciation for his review, which like the other review we got (see the post on my blog) was unsolicited by us; however, we are grateful that he got it! he understood the purpose [...]

December Reflections- what do we take for granted in the US [that we can't find elswhere]?

We live in a society in which the negative things make the news. There are many of us immigrants who live in the US and – in spite of the political disaster of the past (almost) 8 years – find things to be grateful for in this US society which we don’t find in other [...]

Comments from an Aussie blogger on our book: Communicating the American Way

Des Walsh recently wrote a blog about our book, Communicating the American Way; I appreciate his comments (and I don’t know him) and for his taking the time to write a thoughtful review. He certainly is correct with some of his criticisms and I appreciate him pointing out items that don’t work for him. I [...]

How lucky am I working with international professionals in Silicon Valley!

Living in the Silicon Valley means being around many different languages and cultures every day. In my job working with foreign professionals on their accents, presentation skills and understand the differences between their and the US business world gives me great challenges. Life here is different. Business has its protocols and as such, they have [...]