I am planning a local meetup for Udacity. Your help and support to spread the word is the key to our success.

Date: Saturday, Sept 15

Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Location: TBD (looking for sponsors and recommendations)

Media Kit: click here here to download

You Can Help: spread the word or suggest any possible venues that can accommodate 5+ people

Why am I doing this? You can read my thoughts & belief in continuous learning from my last post

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Dear friends and readers,

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

I want to thank you all for the encouragement and support. Your feedback and critics are my inspiration and I’d love to continuously share and exchange ideas with you in 2012.

Merry Christmas. Feliz Navidad. Shèngdàn Kuàilè

Connect with me on LinkedIn & Twitter. Let’s chat!

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However, I often wonder now what the next steps are. I’m pretty much accustomed to life here … but it’s not always obvious to me whether I’m headed in the right direction. Indeed, we talk about globalization every day and technology has brought best practices from around the world within a click’s reach. But that doesn’t change the fact that sometimes, my different background leaves me unsure of whether I’m establishing the right professional identity here.

On the other side of the world, a market with tremendous potential grows, with consumers desperately wanting to be educated and to have their needs satisfied. The Chinese market is unique and booming, and that’s exciting to me. But what’s the American equivalent? What’s unique and booming here, and how can I be a part of it?

As of today I’ve got a long way to go, professionally. It’s taken me five years to get a taste of U.S. corporate culture, and now I’m trying to decide what new capabilities, what new areas of expertise I should add to my repertoire.

Dear friends, if you have words of wisdom or advice you can offer, please do take a few minutes to leave me a comment. Or, I’d appreciate your time for a cup of coffee or cupcake. That would be a terrific birthday present indeed!

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In April 2011, I did a presentation “China’s No Panda Express” at Ignite Detroit. The presentation was elected second place by all the attending audience.

The inspiration of this talk came from a series of “Far East expedition failure,” such as Google’s withdrawal from China, the rise of social clone sites like Sina Weibo (Twitter), Renren (Facebook), and many similar cases.

Western tourists are often surprised to learn there is no chop suey in China. American companies can also be unpleasantly surprised when they try to do business in the Chinese-speaking countries. Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes and succeed in the fastest-growing market in the world. (And leave the fortune cookies at home.)

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Facebook Privacy Complaint Ignites War of Words

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Prime Your Mind for Action

Step 1 – Pick a project
Step 2 – Set up 5 implementation steps
Step 3 – Identify when, where, and how

Doing biz sometimes feels building legos. No shortcut. Yet it requires constant brainstorming and persistance to finish your masterpiece.
Nowadays so many people focus on job security rather than giving a second thought what makes sense or does not make sense in their business.
Give yourself a second chance, to rethink, to readjust, to develop this implementation mindset.

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Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle”

Upon reading this, I was so excited about this novel experiment combining our daily life (yes, most of people do more than 5 searches from Google so I boldly conclude search engine is part of our life) with our network, personally or professionaly. I even played with Google Lab to see how this social search works if utilizing on a biz purpose. Without too much luck finding people sharing similar “search terms,” I give this search milestone a second thought.

As technology gets more and more sophisticated, our personal interaction with the whole world gets funkier & funkier. People request to be your friends on facebook even though you have no idea where they pop up; followers based on common interest or even some “spammy” words drive marketers to Twitter-gold-rush; you search a term today and tomorrow you have 10+ service provider in your inbox selling you their stuff. It’s just too spontaneous, too fast, and too overwhelming, as if the basic trust is getting lost in algorithm. And now by introducing this social search, what Google trying to do, from my perspective, is to rebuild this tangible boundary between our need (search) and our privacy (those who we trust).

But I guess the question lies in: who? Can that piece of information be told by search engine? Can that be determined by whom we connect with over the Internet? While this might be a perfect news for those experienced marketers (with thousands of followers @ twitter, experienced in Google Reader, Google Profile…etc), I wonder as consumers being pushed to “trust” what search engine suggested (based on our networks & keywords), will we, sooner or later, find out it is another tool allowing either technology or sales approach us?

I really don’t have an answer, but I guess we will see the result in the next 6 months or so!

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After a 35-year search, an Israeli archaeologist is certain he has solved the mystery of the biblical figures final resting place

via Finding King Herods Tomb.

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