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Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Hartmut Buettner @ October 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet

According to their information, the Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world’s most extensive and complete archive of television news. It operates as a Unit of the Vanderbilt University Libraries.
The collection spans the presidential administrations of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George [...]

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Exporting - online module series

Hartmut Buettner @ July 2, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The “Exporting” online audio module series on the globalEDGE website has been produced in cooperation with the U.S. Commercial Service based on the 2008 edition of A Basic Guide to Exporting. Each of the first seventeen modules represents one of the book’s chapters and includes a case study. The final bonus module explains the [...]

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Doing Business in China Videos on YouTube

Hartmut Buettner @ June 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Hundreds of videos on business in China. Interviews, Documentaries, Company Profiles, Seminars, How-To’s. Everything you need to know about China to make a successful market entry.
By Terence: Associate Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing for the past 8 years.
The playlist contains:

Seminars on how to do Business in China (119 Videos).
Documentaries on how [...]

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International Management Blog is Twittering

Hartmut Buettner @ June 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Finally, the International Management Blog is on Twitter[1] in English and German. It took quite some time until I joined. However, now I don’t like to miss it.
I will provide international business news focusing on Asia-Pacific and links to interesting and useful web resources through Twitter.
Twitter makes it easy to write short messages with a [...]

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Arampur – a Virtual Indian Village

Hartmut Buettner @ June 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet

A Virtual Village at the Wesleyan University website, is a free pedagogical tool that allows visitors of the website to interactively explore the social worlds of the pseudonymic ‘Arampur’ village in the northeast Indian state of Bihar through its material culture.

The central feature “Roam†allows visitors to virtually ‘roam’ within this village in the state [...]

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The Business Strategy Game® – Competing in a Global Marketplace

Hartmut Buettner @ May 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The Business Strategy Game® is an online exercise where class members are divided into teams and assigned the task of running an athletic footwear company in head-to-head competition against companies managed by other class members. Company operations parallel those of actual athletic footwear companies. Just as in the real-world, companies compete in a global market [...]

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www.elearning-reviews.org

Hartmut Buettner @ May 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The vision of elearning-reviews.org[1] is to provide those interested in research on elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications.
Their most important goal is to provide a well-balanced selection of seminal publications as well as interesting up-to-date publications from the various disciplinary perspectives. Therefore, they continually survey new publications from a broad spectrum of [...]

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Second China - Immersive cultural exposure prior to in-country travel

Hartmut Buettner @ May 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The Second China Project of the University of Florida allows training cultural awareness through an integrated 2D/3D online environment.
The 2D traditional website is used to provide cultural information. The learning modules comprise: China Facts, Business, Government, Politics, Military, Language, Society, Travel Information and Awareness. Just to give an example the Business Module includes 21 topics, [...]

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International Business - Online Course Modules

Hartmut Buettner @ February 9, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Interactive educational tools about International Business for use in the classroom or in executive training are available on the globalEDGEâ„¢ web site of the Michigan State University URL: http://globaledge.msu.edu/…
The modules include audio, a case study or anecdotes, a glossary of terms, quiz questions, and a list of references when applicable.
The modules are grouped into the [...]

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Progress in the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)

Hartmut Buettner @ January 7, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Progress in the use of ICT for education and training across Europe has been substantial in the last years. However, studies show that ICT has not yet had as significant an impact as expected.
A great backlog demand exists concerning the integration of modern ICT both in technical and organizational learning processes as well as [...]

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International Business Web-Portal: globalEDGEâ„¢

Hartmut Buettner @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet

globalEDGEâ„¢[1] is a knowledge web-portal for international business professionals from around the world. According to their information the site offers:

Global Resources: more than 5,000 online resources, e.g. Database of International Business Statistics (DIBS), Market Potential Index (MPI) and glossary
Countries: executive memos, statistics, historical, economic, and political conditions on 199 countries around the world
US States: [...]

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Free vRooms for three Participants

Hartmut Buettner @ September 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet

One option to organize a free online conference for up to three participants is Elluminate’s free “vRoom”. The free “vRooms” a based on Elluminate’s Enterprise Edition(TM) and offer many interactive features, such as:

Two-way audio
Shared interactive whiteboard
Direct messaging
Application sharing
File transfer
Synchronized web tour
Interactive quiz and survey
Moderator tools
Live webcam
Breakout rooms
Emotion and activity indicators

You can use your free “vRoom” [...]

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Net-Trainers Course

Hartmut Buettner @ April 9, 2008 # 2 Comments

Welcome to my new born blog!
First of all, I have to thank my Net-Trainers tutors and fellow students for motivating me to start my own blog. My special thanks go to Myriam (France) for her patience to explain the possibilities and options of blogging to me. Furthermore, special thanks go to Toby (Great Britain) for [...]

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