session links from Wednesday, August 10, 2011
<>IQ <>EQ [pace Daniel Golman] <>CQ [cultural quotient; intelligence on matters of culture different to one's own]
<>anatomy [the structure of the topic here] <>physiology [how it functions "in the wild" with all parts in motion <>behavior [how it works in the social environment]
Non-profits, NGOs and Civil Society Weaving the Social Fabric
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WEBSITE SOURCES
NGO, NPO, civil society
http://www.bettertogether.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguaro_Seminar
<> Arab Spring, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_spring
<> Web 3 point Oh, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0#Web_3.0
<> NGO, NPO, 501(c)3:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cohesion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Nonprofit_Corporation_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization#United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_roots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_association
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(charity)
Protesting in Japan, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnpkBgQgtzY
Example from Japan of movie actor, Mr. Taro Yamamoto, speaking out against nuclear power generators.
Thread August 2-9, 2011 at H-Japan, http://www.h-net.org Subject: The Supposedly Docile Japanese Public
More than a dozen postings about changes in public, organized demonstrations today vs. earlier generations.
The eye-witness Big Brother posting of Neill Walker (search term in the H-Net/h-japan archives) is powerful.
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BOOKS CITED
<> Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
--amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-America-Penguin-Classics-Tocqueville/dp/0140447601/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312406397&sr=1-1
--project gutenberg [read online, on PC, on portable device], VOL-1 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/815, VOL-2 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/816
--wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
<> The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David C. Korten
--amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Great-Turning-Empire-Earth-Community/dp/B0058M7VAW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312404219&sr=1-1
--wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korten
<> Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
--amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Community/dp/0743203046/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312404386&sr=1-2
--wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone AND official website, http://www.bowlingalone.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Together:_Restoring_the_American_Community
<> Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
--amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/0143114948/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312406265&sr=1-1
--wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky
<> Lifehacker, 3rd edition
--amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Lifehacker-Working-Smarter-Faster-Better/dp/1118018370/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312405462&sr=1-1
blog from whence the anthology was composed for edition 1-2 - and 3 = http://blog.lifehacker.com/ [see also edition 1 and 2]
--wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifehacker
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MOBILE PUBLISHING (e.g. phone or other Internet device)
http://www.flickr.com/ | http://www.youtube.com/ | http://www.blogger.com/ [to hold text, links, images and video] and http://posterous.com to handle audio files as well
http://www.twitter.com/ and http://www.facebook.com/ and http://www.linkedin.com/
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MEETING UP WITH OTHERS
http://www.doodle.com/ [choice of listed meeting dates/times] | http://foursquare.com/ [current whereabouts: “location aware” software]
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MONEY
http://www.kickstarter.com/ [post your project to attract donors]
http://www.minidonations.org/ [micro donor support]
http://www.paypal.com/ [donations for one’s project or business]
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MORE WAYS TO PUBLISH YOUR WORK (besides the Social Media personal platforms)
http://www.screencast.com/ created by http://www.jingproject.com
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PUBLISH WORDS AND IMAGES, including eBooks and articles
http://www.smashwords.com/ and http://kdp.amazon.com/
http://www.scribd.com/ and http://www.slideshare.com/ for multimedia
http://www.itunes.com/ [podcasting; iTunesU for free content from campuses]
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SHARING (LARGE) FILES, including video and audio
http://www.sugarsync.com/ [store, share, and synchronize several computers on all or selected files]
http://www.yousendit.com/ [temporary holder for recipient for 7 days; instead of bulky email attachments]
http://www.dropbox.com/ [store or make publicly accessible your files large or small]
http://www.amazon.com/ >amazon cloud (as well as amazon mp3 locker+player) cf. iCloud at www.apple.com (fall 2011)
http://skydrive.live.com/ and http://box.net
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ONLINE DOCUMENT WORK
http://docs.google.com/ and http://docs.zoho.com/ and www.officelive.com
See also the online converter of Wikipedia articles into portable (*.mobi) format suited to offline reading (mobipocketcreator.com) or eBook readers such as Kindle: paste the wikipedia URL to the converter box. Then download the finished file. http://www.edukindle.com/downloads/kindlepedia/
[*.mobi portable files from wikipedia articles of July 2011 can be opened with free Amazon "Kindle for PC/Mac" software, or directly on a Kindle & other devices]
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Mr. Guven Peter Witteveen, anthroview@gmail.com
Produced August 9, 2011.
All Business is Local - You Can Take it Personally
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CULTURE LEARNING
Culture and Language Study Guides (pdf download samples) from the book, Maximizing Study Abroad (Maxsa)
http://www.carla.umn.edu/maxsa/samples/SG_CultureLearning.pdf [list of places to find clues to the foreign culture]
http://www.carla.umn.edu/maxsa/samples/SG_Stereotypes.pdf [suggestions when you find yourself reduced to a token or symbol]
http://www.carla.umn.edu/maxsa/samples/SG_Reading.pdf [list of places to seek materials in the foreign language]
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LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
<>Linguistic Relativity and The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Wikip, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_Hypothesis
<>Language blur and play
Japlish, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japlish#Japlish
Konglish, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konglish
Chinglish, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish
Thai, Tinglish, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinglish
Malay+Manglish, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manglish
Franglais, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais
Spanglish, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanglish
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ONLINE VIDEO
Introductory movies for The Race Project (2007-2014 Ford Foundation, Minnesota Science Museum, American Anthropological Assoc.)
http://www.youtube.com/user/UnderstandingRace
What is L.A.T.T.I.C.E? (Linking All-Types of Teachers in International Cross-cultural Education), www.latticeworld.org
http://tinyurl.com/whatislattice and regarding its creation and administration, http://tinyurl.com/makelattice
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REFERENCE SOURCES
World Fact Book from the CIA, www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Resource links on business protocol, www.etiquettesurvival.com
Set of Japan photos, http://k12anthro.wikispaces.com/Japan+views
Set of Korea photos, http://k12anthro.wikispaces.com/Korea+views
Annual corruption reports, http://www.transparency.org
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BOOKS CITED
<> Global Flows (1995 Arjun Appadurai)
For Appadurai the imaginary is composed of five dimensions of global cultural flow: 1) ethnoscapes; 2) mediascapes; 3) technoscapes; 4) finanscapes; 5) ideoscapes.
--wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjun_Appadurai
<> Jos. Tobin et al Remade in Japan [1992]
--amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Re-Made-Japan-Everyday-Consumer-Changing/dp/0300060823/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312407675&sr=1-1
<> George Fields, From Bonsai to Levi's [1984]
--amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Bonsai-Levis-Insiders-Surprising-Japanese/dp/0025377507/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312407788&sr=1-2
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Mr. Guven Peter Witteveen, anthroview@gmail.com
Produced August 9, 2011.