01.Jun.2010 Building a collective intelligence with Twitter
I posted my first experiences with Twitter quite a while ago in May 2009. Since then it was difficult for me to actually participate in an effective way. Reading all the posts I was interested in and posting useful information myself. I still kept spending so much time on the platform, forgetting about all those [...]
21.Sep.2009 culture differences in web design – 2: power distance
Power distance is a concept introduced by Geert Hofstede, formerly professor of organisational anthropology and international management at the University of Limburg in the Netherlands. He was an employee at different companies including IBM and has brought about a paradigm change in intercultural studies with his book Culture’s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values, Behaviors, [...]
28.Aug.2009 culture differences in web design – 1: high/low context
It took me a while to apply the inter-cultural knowledge I have to the web. It was that difficult, because I had to wrap my head around a very obvious contradiction. But to explain what my problem was I need to give you some background knowledge first. low-context vs. high-context These are terms first used [...]
28.Jul.2009 culture differences in web design
Every time I view a Chinese website or a website using Chinese characters (traditional or simplified) I am overwhelmed by the amount of information depicted. To demonstrate what I mean and analyze it I picked out the website of yahoo for Taiwan and the USA. You can clearly see that the page of Yahoo USA [...]
Marketing benefits from writing your thesis in English
While researching for my thesis about online self-marketing, I stumbled upon the question in which language I should write the thesis. This rather obvious matter had not yet occurred to me. Somehow I had assumed I would write it in German, since I am German. But just today I realized that this might not be [...]
17.Jul.2009 Time to take stock
My website and with it my attempt to market myself online is now over 50 days old. I have to say that my mind has traveled far, but somehow I feel like I haven’t even started. Let’s see what I have done until now: My 20 first steps: 1. account/domain – at fatcow.com for hosting [...]
27.May.2009 Just do it! The Nike-approach
My website is one day old now, but it is far from being out of the woods. I was able to learn what FTP is and how to use it. I got to know CSS and KompoZer as well as php and that in order to understand those I will need more time. Fortunately I have a [...]
25.May.2009 Hello world!
This website is work in progress. I am not entirely a website-virgin, but taking a serious approach to create a professional website is challenging. Not only do I have the incentive of branding and marketing myself through this website, but I also chose to make this project the topic of my Bachelor thesis, working title [...]
