Posts Tagged ‘culture’

October 16, 2007

Presenting to an International Audience

MattMacL shares some great tips on his Working Abroad blog on how to present to audiences whose first language is not English. These include adapting your language to the audience and cutting out idioms. He also highlights the pitfalls that may exist:
The tendency is to think that one can go into a presentation without having [...]

July 18, 2007

We Care Health Care

A few weeks ago my mother had surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff. I am not particularly fond of hospitals, but have to admit that the facility in Fort Lauderdale at which she stayed was quite accommodating for patients and their families. Although there was an abundance of parking spaces relatively close to the [...]