[Vnbiz] English website for college students

Mon Jul 7 17:10:18 PDT 2008

Dear CACC,

Thanks, Tu, for the forum-portal offer.

Twelve days after I posted my survey questions, I've now got 2 responses
from 2 English teachers (Thuy & Hai), and 1 IT response from Tu, and 2 from
2 students.  That tells me that the students are probably not so hot about
the idea, or they may have zero idea on how such a site may interest them.

Originally I have some more fancy idea for the website.  I was thinking
something like an e-magazine linked to a forum.  But now that we are not so
sure about the students' interest, probably we should start something much
more simple to see how it goes.  If the idea catches fire, we can always
improve upon it.

So I will start the planning process here, just to generate some widespread
interest.  When this discussion may unduly cluster VNBIZ, we will move it to
a private list.

1.  Sis. Thuy & Bro. Hong Hai & Tu:  Let's focus on having teachers and
professionals managing this forum for now.  And whenever we run into a
student with potential management skill, we will talk about that student.
2.  Since Tu (in Saigon) has volunteered his forum portal, let's use it for
now, until we see some reason to move the site to another server.  (No
advertising, Tu).
3.  Please introduce friends who may be interested in managing this forum.
Whoever wants to volunteer, please kindly let me know.  (I will train
everyone in the art of managing a forum).
4.  "Volunteer," by my standards, means you have no pay but whatever hours
you volunteer to work, you treat those hours like you are paid a million USD
per hour.  To  me, spiritual and emotional payments are much more valuable
than monetary payments.
5.  Let's think about the name for this forum.  I'd love to have something
creative and crazy sounding (sort of like Yahoo!  Google and the like).
6.  And nice, fun and simple logo  (any artist in the house?)
7.  And a catchy slogan (we don't really need any of these, but they are
fun).
8.  The categories of the forum:  Housekeeping matters, welcome center,
business & economics, education, social, politics, culture, IT, around
schools, basic English, advance English writing (for professionals and
graduate students.  I will do this category myself)...   Please chip in your
idea.
Ok, folks, let's start talking.

Have a great day!

Hoanh

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Tu (Mr) Nguyen Ngoc <haimuoibado5 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>
> Dear CACC
>
> Pls find this link to the Forum for Anh Hoanh's idea.
>
> http://www.ttinvest.com.vn/vnbizforum/index.php
>
> This is just DEMO forum. We'll together figure out the good one if Ok. Here
> is the fastest way that to share your English skills with student or anyone
> who want to improve their English skills (like me, of course :-) )
> I just attached this forum to my company website for testing purpose.
> Kindly spend your time to visit and send feedback on: Format, setup, content
> or anythings that you think about this kind of forum. All your valuable
> comments are highly appreciated.
>
> Best regards to everyone and have a good day.
>
> Tu, Nguyen Ngoc
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>>
>>
>> Dear CACC,
>>
>> For years I have had this vision that Vietnam will have an "English
>> culture" like Singapore.  What I mean is that, you go to Singapore you will
>> see that the Chinese speak Chinese and read Chinese newspaper, same thing
>> with the Indians or the Malaysians.  I mean their traditional cultures are
>> alive and well, but on top of that there is a very strong English culture
>> with English-language newspaper, books, songs, etc.  The Singaporeans use
>> English as their second mother tongue.  That obviously helps propel
>> Singapore to the most modern city/country in Asia.    I have been dreaming
>> that Vietnam will have an English-culture like that.  (And I think I've
>> mentioned this dream off and on many times in this forum over the years).
>>
>> Last night I chatted with Le Thuy (of Tuoi Tre) a bit about this dream and
>> asked her:  If we do some kind of English-language magazine for college
>> students of Vietnam, would they be interested in reading it?  Le Thuy
>> suggested a webiste to try.  Yeah, that's a good idea.  Why didn't I think
>> of that?
>>
>> So here is my first question to everyone (there will be other questions
>> later on).
>>
>> Would Vietnamese college students be interested in an English website
>> devoted to them, so that they can read news and commentaries and write their
>> feedback regularly (I.e., practicing reading and writing on a daily
>> basis)?   (Of course, the language will be simple and clear enough to make
>> the reading easy, and the content deep enough to make it educational).  (I
>> mean, do they care?  or do they prefer video games instead?)
>>
>> Thanks a million for responding to my survey.  Oh, if you can forward this
>> to college students, I would greatly appreciate it.  Off-VNBiz responses can
>> be sent directly to me at tdhoanh at gmail.com.  Thanks!
>>
>> Have a great day!
>>
>> Hoanh
>>
>> --
>> Tran Dinh Hoanh, Esq., LLB, JD
>> Washington DC
>>
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Washington DC
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