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December 2003
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Sweeping Cybercrime
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BizMarkTM
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Certified Business Globalist
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Controlling the Internet?
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CultureMarkTM
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Certified Culture Globalist
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Localizing Domains
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GlobeMarkTM
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Certified Web Globalist
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Monitoring Dissidents
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Certified Global Site
Sweeping Cybercrime
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft stated recently that law enforcement
agents had arrested 125 suspects in a crackdown on Internet crimes ranging
from hacking to fraud to selling stolen goods. The seven-week cybercrime
sweep involved police from Ghana to Southern California and uncovered
125,000 victims who had lost more than $100 million.
Those arrested stand charged with a variety of crimes that highlight the
innumerable scams and criminal acts that now take place online. Many are
accused of selling stolen or nonexistent goods online, a leading cybercrime
category. Suspects fenced stolen goods through online auction sites such as
eBay, set up phony escrow services to handle payments, and promoted
fraudulent investment clubs through glossy Web sites, according to a summary
of cases provided by the Department of Justice.
Suspects also stole classified files from government computers, hacked into
business computers to steal customers' credit-card numbers, disabled
computers running child-abuse hotlines, and sold counterfeit software or
computer-memory chips. US Secret Service agents worked with foreign law
enforcers to track down suspects who operated across international borders.
Bottom line: In doing business online, you are not only threatened by
criminals in your own country. Criminals outside the U.S. can just as easily
steal your money and your privacy.
BizMarkTM Certified Business Globalist Program
Web of Culture is pleased to present its BizMarkTM Certified Business
Globalist Program. Through the successful completion of two online courses,
students will become a Certified Business Globalist and will receive the
BizMarkTM Certification. The two courses include: Global Business
Organization and Cultural Communication, and Internal Factors of Global
Business.
The Global Business Organization and Cultural Communication course focuses
on the cultural and organizational framework within which global business is
conducted. Topics include sociocultural forces, cultural analysis,
communication strategies, human resources investment and utilization, and
managing across borders.
The Internal Factors of Global Business course focuses on the issues and
functions that global business faces within control of the organization.
Topics include organizational forms of entry and exit, legal issues,
marketing, finance, human resources, and risk management.
Become a Certified Business Globalist
As business goes global, it will be important to hire qualified
professionals who can respond to international business needs. Enhancing
your professional skills with the Business Globalist Certification courses
offers a competitive edge!
Don't miss out on the next Global Business Organization and Cross Cultural
Communications course. Please click
<http://www.webofculture.com/bizmark/schedule.asp> here for more
information. After finishing the first online course, you may register for
the second online course,
<http://www.webofculture.com/bizmark/schedule.asp> BizMarkTM Internal
Factors of Global Business.
<http://www.webofculture.com/bizmark/schedule.asp> Enroll Now!
Next classes:
January 5 - January 20, 2004
January 26 - February 10, 2004
Controlling the Internet?
Governments spearheaded by China, Brazil, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia are
trying to place the Internet under the control of the United Nations or its
member governments, a move that the United States and other developed
countries are determined to resist. The issue has cropped up in preparatory
talks for a world summit on the information society to be held from Dec. 10
to 12 in Geneva, with the stated goal of advancing the management and
worldwide use of the Internet, especially in poorer nations.
Many developing countries argue that governments need to play a greater role
in managing and setting policy for the Internet, while the United States,
the European Union and Japan, among others, say government interference
could stifle the development of the dynamic medium. The Internet, at
present, is loosely managed by a private organization in California named
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which coordinates
such matters as Internet servers and domain names.
China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Senegal and many other
African countries were also "keen" for the United Nations to have a role.
The summit also will deal with questions such as how to block the spread of
viruses, prevent unwanted "spam" and prevent the use of the medium for
criminal purposes such as identity theft.
Bottom line: The Internet medium is too important to be left in the hands of
one major power, some argue, and others say problems such as cybercrime and
protection of intellectual property rights require greater government
involvement.
CultureMarkTM Certified Culture Globalist Program
Web of Culture is pleased to present its CultureMarkTM Certified Culture
Globalist Program. Through the successful completion of two online courses,
students will become a Certified Culture Globalist and will receive the
CultureMarkTM Certification. The two courses include: Interpersonal
Strategies for Global Managers, Behavioral Considerations in Global Firms.
The Interpersonal Strategies for Global Managers course develops the
knowledge and skills necessary for international managers to effectively
deal with cross-cultural elements in the work environment. Emphasis is
placed on the elements of culture and their impact on ethics and business
management across cultures to maximize cross-cultural communication and
enhance international business synergies.
The Behavioral Considerations in Global Firms course focuses on the skills
necessary to understand how individuals interact within a global
environment. Topics include behavioral, cultural, and sociological
influences on global business.
Become a Certified Culture Globalist
As global business becomes parts of daily life, it will be important to hire
qualified professionals who can respond to cultural business needs.
Enhancing your professional skills with the Culture Globalist Certification
courses offers a competitive edge!
Don't miss out on the next CultureMarkTM Interpersonal Strategies for Global
Managers course. Please click
<http://www.webofculture.com/culturemark/schedule.asp> here for more
information. After finishing the first online course, you may register for
the second online course,
<http://www.webofculture.com/culturemark/schedule.asp> CultureMarkTM
Behavioral Considerations in Global Firms.
<http://www.webofculture.com/culturemark/schedule.asp> Enroll Now!
Next classes:
January 5 - January 20, 2004
January 26 - February 10, 2004
Localizing Domains
Second-level domain names in Chinese, Japanese or Korean will be abundant by
late 2003, but a version of ".com" or ".museum" in any of those languages is
still far away. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) wants to see how multilingual second-level domains work before it
starts work on the top-level domain (TLD) space. A second-level domain is
the name that comes before the ".com." In "sony.com," for example, Sony is
the second level and ".com" is the top level.
ICANN, based in Marina del Rey, California, has to look at the technical
aspects of the implementation, but also issues such as dispute resolution.
ICANN predicts Japanese, Chinese and Korean second-level domain names to
boom in 2003. Arabic and Cyrillic names will not be available for some time.
The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) was designed to support about 30
English-language ASCII characters. International domain names, however, draw
from the 96,000-character Unicode repertoire. Domain names in other
languages must be encoded in ASCII for transmission across the DNS or they
will not work.
Bottom line: Approximately 1 million non-English language domain names have
already been sold. Only time will tell how global domain names will truly
become.
GlobeMarkTM Certified Web Globalist Program
Web of Culture is pleased to present its GlobeMarkTM Certified Web Globalist
Program. Through the successful completion of two online courses, students
will become a Certified Web Globalist and will receive the GlobeMarkTM
Certification. The two courses include: Localization Basics and Web
Globalization Management.
The Localization Basics course defines localization, internationalization
and the difference between globalization, internationalization and
localization. Other topics include: the differences involved in localizing
software versus online help versus documentation, localization project
management, and best practices.
The Web Globalization Management focuses on the key website globalization
issues that are important to your international audience, including:
content, culture, design, language, legal, localization, management,
marketing, e-commerce/technical, and usability issues.
Become a Certified Web Globalist
Globalization is like the Internet, it is the future and cannot be ignored.
In order to effectively conduct business in this global market space
localization and web globalization are key. Students who understand
localization and web globalization will provide a competitive advantage to
companies seeking to go global or who are already global.
Don't miss out on the next GlobeMarkTM Localization Basics course. Please
click <http://www.webofculture.com/globemark/schedule.asp> here for more
information. After finishing the first online course, you may register for
the second online course,
<http://www.webofculture.com/globemark/schedule.asp> GlobeMarkTM Web
Globalization Management.
<http://www.webofculture.com/globemark/schedule.asp> Enroll Now!
Next classes:
January 5 - January 15, 2004
January 9 - January 19, 2004.
Monitoring Dissidents
A Chinese court here has turned down the appeals of four Internet dissidents
who were sentenced to up to 10 years in jail for posting their views on
social issues online. Both a former journalist, and a young intellectual
were sentenced to 10 years in jail, while the two others received eight-year
sentences.
The four were arrested in March 2001 after they set up the "New Youth
Association," an intellectual study group that discussed China's growing
social problems, including rural issues and widening inequality. The group
was disbanded three to four months after it was formed and the arrests came
soon after that.
Bottom line: As China becomes more of an economic superpower, it will be
interesting to see how controlling its citizens will affect its global
position.
WorldMarkTM Certified Global Site Program
If you are doing business online globally, how do you know if your website
serves useful and effective content for the markets you sell to? How does
your website apply your corporate brand consistently and accurately? How
does your website allow users from any country to input the information
required to complete a web-based transaction? How does your website support
an architecture that allows for international scalability in future? How
does your website ensure prominent display on popular search engines in your
target countries?
Web of Culture is pleased to present its WorldMarkTM Certified Global Site
Program. Through the successful completion of a comprehensive website
analysis, companies will receive become Certified Global Sites and will
receive the WorldMarkTM Certification.
Become a Certified Global Site
Sites that display the Web of Culture WorldMarkTM have met the most
comprehensive set of rigorous criteria that demonstrate the company's
commitment to customers worldwide. Our evaluation methodology is based on
academic research principles, cutting-edge Internet technology, and a strong
intercultural discipline. Our staff members possess the academic and
professional skills necessary to evaluate your site from both a technical
and communication effectiveness perspective. This enables us to review your
site for global viability, not just technical compatibility, a difference
that can mean everything in today's competitive Internet marketplace.
<http://www.webofculture.com/worldmark> Discover today the WorldMarkTM
program!
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Global UpdateT
Where business, culture and technology converge
December 2003
Insite
Global SEO
Is your site listed on the top of international search engines? We will show
you how to get it there!
<mailto:***@webofculture.com> Contact us today!!
WorldSmart
WorldSmart, the world's most comprehensive global information resource is
now more affordable than ever! Join our growing subscription base and
provide your organization with the tools to do business internationally.
<http://www.webofculture.com/worldsmart> Click here now!!
In This Issue:
*
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#sweeping>
Sweeping Cybercrime
*
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#bizmark>
BizMarkTM
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#bizmark>
Certified Business Globalist
*
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#controlling>
Controlling the Internet?
*
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#culturemark>
CultureMarkTM
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#culturemark>
Certified Culture Globalist
*
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#localizing>
Localizing Domains
*
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#globemark>
GlobeMarkTM
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#globemark>
Certified Web Globalist
*
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#monitoring>
Monitoring Dissidents
*
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#worldmark>
WorldMarkTM
<http://www.webofculture.com/updates/global_update_dec_2003.asp#worldmark>
Certified Global Site
Sweeping Cybercrime
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft stated recently that law enforcement
agents had arrested 125 suspects in a crackdown on Internet crimes ranging
from hacking to fraud to selling stolen goods. The seven-week cybercrime
sweep involved police from Ghana to Southern California and uncovered
125,000 victims who had lost more than $100 million.
Those arrested stand charged with a variety of crimes that highlight the
innumerable scams and criminal acts that now take place online. Many are
accused of selling stolen or nonexistent goods online, a leading cybercrime
category. Suspects fenced stolen goods through online auction sites such as
eBay, set up phony escrow services to handle payments, and promoted
fraudulent investment clubs through glossy Web sites, according to a summary
of cases provided by the Department of Justice.
Suspects also stole classified files from government computers, hacked into
business computers to steal customers' credit-card numbers, disabled
computers running child-abuse hotlines, and sold counterfeit software or
computer-memory chips. US Secret Service agents worked with foreign law
enforcers to track down suspects who operated across international borders.
Bottom line: In doing business online, you are not only threatened by
criminals in your own country. Criminals outside the U.S. can just as easily
steal your money and your privacy.
BizMarkTM Certified Business Globalist Program
Web of Culture is pleased to present its BizMarkTM Certified Business
Globalist Program. Through the successful completion of two online courses,
students will become a Certified Business Globalist and will receive the
BizMarkTM Certification. The two courses include: Global Business
Organization and Cultural Communication, and Internal Factors of Global
Business.
The Global Business Organization and Cultural Communication course focuses
on the cultural and organizational framework within which global business is
conducted. Topics include sociocultural forces, cultural analysis,
communication strategies, human resources investment and utilization, and
managing across borders.
The Internal Factors of Global Business course focuses on the issues and
functions that global business faces within control of the organization.
Topics include organizational forms of entry and exit, legal issues,
marketing, finance, human resources, and risk management.
Become a Certified Business Globalist
As business goes global, it will be important to hire qualified
professionals who can respond to international business needs. Enhancing
your professional skills with the Business Globalist Certification courses
offers a competitive edge!
Don't miss out on the next Global Business Organization and Cross Cultural
Communications course. Please click
<http://www.webofculture.com/bizmark/schedule.asp> here for more
information. After finishing the first online course, you may register for
the second online course,
<http://www.webofculture.com/bizmark/schedule.asp> BizMarkTM Internal
Factors of Global Business.
<http://www.webofculture.com/bizmark/schedule.asp> Enroll Now!
Next classes:
January 5 - January 20, 2004
January 26 - February 10, 2004
Controlling the Internet?
Governments spearheaded by China, Brazil, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia are
trying to place the Internet under the control of the United Nations or its
member governments, a move that the United States and other developed
countries are determined to resist. The issue has cropped up in preparatory
talks for a world summit on the information society to be held from Dec. 10
to 12 in Geneva, with the stated goal of advancing the management and
worldwide use of the Internet, especially in poorer nations.
Many developing countries argue that governments need to play a greater role
in managing and setting policy for the Internet, while the United States,
the European Union and Japan, among others, say government interference
could stifle the development of the dynamic medium. The Internet, at
present, is loosely managed by a private organization in California named
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which coordinates
such matters as Internet servers and domain names.
China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Senegal and many other
African countries were also "keen" for the United Nations to have a role.
The summit also will deal with questions such as how to block the spread of
viruses, prevent unwanted "spam" and prevent the use of the medium for
criminal purposes such as identity theft.
Bottom line: The Internet medium is too important to be left in the hands of
one major power, some argue, and others say problems such as cybercrime and
protection of intellectual property rights require greater government
involvement.
CultureMarkTM Certified Culture Globalist Program
Web of Culture is pleased to present its CultureMarkTM Certified Culture
Globalist Program. Through the successful completion of two online courses,
students will become a Certified Culture Globalist and will receive the
CultureMarkTM Certification. The two courses include: Interpersonal
Strategies for Global Managers, Behavioral Considerations in Global Firms.
The Interpersonal Strategies for Global Managers course develops the
knowledge and skills necessary for international managers to effectively
deal with cross-cultural elements in the work environment. Emphasis is
placed on the elements of culture and their impact on ethics and business
management across cultures to maximize cross-cultural communication and
enhance international business synergies.
The Behavioral Considerations in Global Firms course focuses on the skills
necessary to understand how individuals interact within a global
environment. Topics include behavioral, cultural, and sociological
influences on global business.
Become a Certified Culture Globalist
As global business becomes parts of daily life, it will be important to hire
qualified professionals who can respond to cultural business needs.
Enhancing your professional skills with the Culture Globalist Certification
courses offers a competitive edge!
Don't miss out on the next CultureMarkTM Interpersonal Strategies for Global
Managers course. Please click
<http://www.webofculture.com/culturemark/schedule.asp> here for more
information. After finishing the first online course, you may register for
the second online course,
<http://www.webofculture.com/culturemark/schedule.asp> CultureMarkTM
Behavioral Considerations in Global Firms.
<http://www.webofculture.com/culturemark/schedule.asp> Enroll Now!
Next classes:
January 5 - January 20, 2004
January 26 - February 10, 2004
Localizing Domains
Second-level domain names in Chinese, Japanese or Korean will be abundant by
late 2003, but a version of ".com" or ".museum" in any of those languages is
still far away. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) wants to see how multilingual second-level domains work before it
starts work on the top-level domain (TLD) space. A second-level domain is
the name that comes before the ".com." In "sony.com," for example, Sony is
the second level and ".com" is the top level.
ICANN, based in Marina del Rey, California, has to look at the technical
aspects of the implementation, but also issues such as dispute resolution.
ICANN predicts Japanese, Chinese and Korean second-level domain names to
boom in 2003. Arabic and Cyrillic names will not be available for some time.
The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) was designed to support about 30
English-language ASCII characters. International domain names, however, draw
from the 96,000-character Unicode repertoire. Domain names in other
languages must be encoded in ASCII for transmission across the DNS or they
will not work.
Bottom line: Approximately 1 million non-English language domain names have
already been sold. Only time will tell how global domain names will truly
become.
GlobeMarkTM Certified Web Globalist Program
Web of Culture is pleased to present its GlobeMarkTM Certified Web Globalist
Program. Through the successful completion of two online courses, students
will become a Certified Web Globalist and will receive the GlobeMarkTM
Certification. The two courses include: Localization Basics and Web
Globalization Management.
The Localization Basics course defines localization, internationalization
and the difference between globalization, internationalization and
localization. Other topics include: the differences involved in localizing
software versus online help versus documentation, localization project
management, and best practices.
The Web Globalization Management focuses on the key website globalization
issues that are important to your international audience, including:
content, culture, design, language, legal, localization, management,
marketing, e-commerce/technical, and usability issues.
Become a Certified Web Globalist
Globalization is like the Internet, it is the future and cannot be ignored.
In order to effectively conduct business in this global market space
localization and web globalization are key. Students who understand
localization and web globalization will provide a competitive advantage to
companies seeking to go global or who are already global.
Don't miss out on the next GlobeMarkTM Localization Basics course. Please
click <http://www.webofculture.com/globemark/schedule.asp> here for more
information. After finishing the first online course, you may register for
the second online course,
<http://www.webofculture.com/globemark/schedule.asp> GlobeMarkTM Web
Globalization Management.
<http://www.webofculture.com/globemark/schedule.asp> Enroll Now!
Next classes:
January 5 - January 15, 2004
January 9 - January 19, 2004.
Monitoring Dissidents
A Chinese court here has turned down the appeals of four Internet dissidents
who were sentenced to up to 10 years in jail for posting their views on
social issues online. Both a former journalist, and a young intellectual
were sentenced to 10 years in jail, while the two others received eight-year
sentences.
The four were arrested in March 2001 after they set up the "New Youth
Association," an intellectual study group that discussed China's growing
social problems, including rural issues and widening inequality. The group
was disbanded three to four months after it was formed and the arrests came
soon after that.
Bottom line: As China becomes more of an economic superpower, it will be
interesting to see how controlling its citizens will affect its global
position.
WorldMarkTM Certified Global Site Program
If you are doing business online globally, how do you know if your website
serves useful and effective content for the markets you sell to? How does
your website apply your corporate brand consistently and accurately? How
does your website allow users from any country to input the information
required to complete a web-based transaction? How does your website support
an architecture that allows for international scalability in future? How
does your website ensure prominent display on popular search engines in your
target countries?
Web of Culture is pleased to present its WorldMarkTM Certified Global Site
Program. Through the successful completion of a comprehensive website
analysis, companies will receive become Certified Global Sites and will
receive the WorldMarkTM Certification.
Become a Certified Global Site
Sites that display the Web of Culture WorldMarkTM have met the most
comprehensive set of rigorous criteria that demonstrate the company's
commitment to customers worldwide. Our evaluation methodology is based on
academic research principles, cutting-edge Internet technology, and a strong
intercultural discipline. Our staff members possess the academic and
professional skills necessary to evaluate your site from both a technical
and communication effectiveness perspective. This enables us to review your
site for global viability, not just technical compatibility, a difference
that can mean everything in today's competitive Internet marketplace.
<http://www.webofculture.com/worldmark> Discover today the WorldMarkTM
program!
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