Communications Series – Part 2: How to Communicate Better by Following American Virtues and Values
In the first part of my Communications Series I looked at how we can communicate better by following German virtues and values. This time I want to take a closer look at the values Americans live by and see how those can possibly help improve our communication skills. I take L. Robert Kohls‘ monograph “The Values Americans Live By,” written in the 1980s, as a guideline for what...
Read MoreGerman Filmmaker Andreas Dresen on Movie Making
German writer/ director Andreas Dresen shared his insights into movie making at the Goethe Institut’s “Show and Tell” series in Los Angeles on Monday, October 26. He talked about his beginnings studying directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg back in the 80s in the GDR. “The school under direction of Lothar Bisky was a place...
Read MoreXING Becomes App King – And You Can Be Queen!
If you’re on XING, like me, you will be happy to hear that the platform just launched a number of handy applications. Oh, hold on – for those of you who don’t know what XING is? XING is like LinkedIn with a cool European flair… Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, the online business network counts over 7.5 million members (and yes, there are many Americans on XING, too!)...
Read MoreGerman Parties: Looking to Obama for Clever Campaigning
German politicians look to Barack Obama when it comes to how to run a successful election campaign. Obama’s use of social media and the internet to mobilize voters in his 2008 campaign for the US presidency was unprecedented. German parties currently campaigning for this year’s federal elections in Germany, which will take place on September 27, want to follow Obama’s...
Read MoreGerman Media in Fear
The news release by the International Media Dialogue Hamburg that took place on 8 June 2009 did not paint a rosy picture about Germany’s media industry. Here is what it read: “No Future for Paid Content? Media Industry under Pressure” – the motto of the International Media Dialogue Hamburg taking place on 8 June 2009 is a combination between punk and management jargon. The...
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