http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/ An intercultural look at communication technologies and social software en-us 2007-09-12T14:43:47+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_email.html#000209 Sensible advice from Wired on writing e-mails which strikes me as universal and not culturally specific (hat tip to Pootergeek).... E-mail Pernille Rudlin 2007-09-12T14:43:47+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_virtual_teams.html#000208 An article in the August 20th Business Week on how to build a productive global team led me to this, 10 excellent rules developed by Lynda Gratton of MIT Sloan. Based on what looks llike solid research on the ground,... Virtual teams Pernille Rudlin 2007-09-07T16:58:17+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_instant_messaging.html#000207 Two guides have been published recently on business communications etiquette. The Microsoft/Finishing Academy one does have some cross cultural awareness, specifying that Europeans are more formal, so emoticons should be avoided. The Forbes one is very instant messaging focused, which... Instant Messaging Pernille Rudlin 2007-09-07T16:32:02+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_teleconferencing.html#000206 "We are optimally evolved to talk at a range of about 5 feet in groups of no more than 90 people" says Ceri Roderick, a partner at an occupation psychologist practice in an article in the "Culture of Collaboration" supplement... Teleconferencing Pernille Rudlin 2007-07-19T17:04:50+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_mobile_phones.html#000205 A letter to the Times last month said that it is "perfectly normal" to see people using wireless in meetings to answer e-mails (and uses the word "polychronic" which I thought was a word usually confined to interculturalist circles!) and... Mobile phones Pernille Rudlin 2007-07-19T16:45:49+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_mobile_phones.html#000204 Etiquette advice from T-Mobile, whose survey shows that the British are hypocrites about the use of mobiles, Blackberries, laptops etc in meetings - hating other people doing it, but doing it themselves. Nearly three quarters of employers do not have... Mobile phones Pernille Rudlin 2007-06-07T14:48:37+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_instant_messaging.html#000203 A survey by 160 Characters of British users of IM, SMS, e-mail etc reveals more or less what one would predict, but also shows that Instant Messaging is becoming more prevalent in business - with 73% using IM for business... Instant Messaging Pernille Rudlin 2007-05-29T15:19:23+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_email.html#000202 Lucy Kellaway discussing the US bestseller Send by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe in the Financial Times displays British values of wanting a degree of formality and personalised context rather than brusque informality. On the question of writing style, some... E-mail Pernille Rudlin 2007-04-26T16:51:49+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_teleconferencing.html#000201 Victor Mallet in the Financial Times (subscription required) points out that the Asianisation of business will mean Westerners will have to get used to conference calls being in the middle of the night their time, rather than the middle of... Teleconferencing Pernille Rudlin 2007-04-26T09:21:56+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_.html#000198 I am not blogging very frequently here as I feel I have more or less exhausted the subject, and should really get on with writing the book that this was meant to be research for - on remote communications and... Pernille Rudlin 2007-04-23T10:17:30+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_japan.html#000197 I'm usually pretty negative about English speakers relying on the phone to communicate with Japanese colleagues. It would seem Ryoji Chubachi , president of Sony may be trying to drop a hint on this to Sir Howard Stringer, Sony Chief... Japan Pernille Rudlin 2007-04-23T10:09:30+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_japan.html#000199 An article in Business Week points out how very few Japanese and Koreans have company laptops or are able to use them to work from home, in contrast to other countries such as the US and UK. The premium placed... Japan Pernille Rudlin 2007-04-23T10:00:42+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_blogs.html#000200 I agree with all the reasons given in the Japan Times as to why blogs in Japanese outstrip blogs in English and Chinese in number. And I also agree with Terrie's Take that it is a kind of therapy, in... Blogs Pernille Rudlin 2007-04-23T09:48:01+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_russia.html#000196 ...on their mobile phones, despite high mobile phone penetration rates, and apparently they don't text much either, but seem to be interested in downloads.... Russia Pernille Rudlin 2007-03-14T11:43:27+00:00 http://www.pernillerudlin.com/blog/archives/cat_poland.html#000195 From the blurb for a Web 2.0 event in San Francisco last year: "Why Poland? They "get" Web 2.0. There are far more Polish articles per capita on Wikipedia than any other language. Poles are Skype's largest and most avid... Poland Pernille Rudlin 2007-01-24T14:07:02+00:00