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Cross-Cultural Communication skills is a relatively new term, referring to the ability to recognize cultural differences and similarities when dealing with someone from another culture and ability to recognize features of own behavior which are affected by culture.

 



Archive for November, 2006

Supporting war affected children

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Tomorrow I will be at an all day conference about war affected children. It is organized by the Manitoba School Counsellors’ Association.
Finally, somebody woke up in Winnipeg and realized the necessity to deal with the many issues related to immigrants and refugees and their settlement in a totally new world, new culture. More than […]

ReviewMe

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Warning 1: This post has nothing to do with cross-cultural communication.
Warning 2: This post is a paid review.
Both warnings contain a kind of half-truth. From the moment you are writing for a world wide audience from various backgrounds - the communication happens across cultural boundaries. And while I am getting paid for writing this review, […]

WordPress as a real multilingual CMS with Gengo

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Recently we set up a complete bilingual content management system (CMS) using WordPress with the Gengo plugin. We didn’t need it but even more languages could be added in order to get a full multilingual system. Or, a blog for that matter. Let me describe the procedure and the end result with the benefits.
The website […]