[Vnbiz] English website for college students

Mon Jul 7 21:27:31 PDT 2008

Dear Anh Hoanh & CACC
Pls do your own Forum categories (attached with any
relevant docs or articles) then give me. I will upload for review and
comment later.
Tks
Tu, Nguyen

On 7/8/08, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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>
>
> 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:
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>> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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>> Dear CACC
>>
>> Pls find this link to the Forum for Anh Hoanh's idea.
>>
>> http://www.ttinvest.com.vn/vnbizforum/index.php
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>> 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
>>
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>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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>>> 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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>> Tu (Mr), Nguyen Ngoc
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> Tran Dinh Hoanh, Esq., LLB, JD
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