Category Archives: X-Culture Stories
Social Media Contest
by Karen Lynden Capturing the X-Culture Symposium Story: Social Media Contest The inaugural X-Culture Symposium “Social Media Contest” was designed for participating students invited to the Miami 2017 event. The result was excellent, as hundreds of team and individual moments were recorded and cataloged using the Facebook hashtag #xculturemiami
Update on the X-Culture GVT Coaching Program
The past 10-15 weeks have been the busiest weeks of my entire life (and 20 weeks ago I could have not imagined it could get any busier). Hence, infrequent updates on our progress. One of the tasks that has kept us busy is the redesign of the X-Culture Coaching Program.
Post-Event Reflections by Dr. Leilani Baumanis
I don’t know how much more I can add to Dr. Taras’ very thorough analysis of the event, but I will attempt to fill in some of the gaps. The Beginning:
X-Culture Global Symposium: Post-Event Reflections
Summary: 150 students from 43 countries, plus 20 professors took part in X-Culture Symposium in Miami Hosts, partners: Hard Rock International / Seminole Gaming, American Airlines, UPS, JWU, UNCG Meetings with top managers and behind-the-scenes tours of Port of Miami, Miami International Airport, Hard Rock Casino and Hotel Career development workshops, seminars, meetings with top…
X-Culture Photography Tradition and Symbolism
A true member of the X-Culture family poses for a photo with an “X”.
The “X” comes in a variety of forms, each with its hidden meaning and mythology.
Nobody knows how the “X” made its way into the X-Culture photos.
The first known X-Photo dates October 14, 2013. It is a class of Vilnius University students who took part in X-Culture in 2013-2b.
Nobody at the admin office recognized the deep meaning of the “X” symbol in the photo and it was lost in our archives. Until it was rediscovered a few years later after the “X” had become part of the X-Culture mythology and symbolism.
Transportation Challenge at the X-Culture Symposium
As we are preparing for the upcoming X-Culture Symposium in Miami, we encountered a peculiar problem: Transportation from the airport to the JWU where the Symposium will take place. An Uber will cost abouut $15, and a regular taxi can be up to $25 for the ride, quite expensive for a student. Public transport (bus,…
Professional consultants or Crowd-sourcing?
Experts wrote the Encyclopedia Britannica, and it ruled for 250 years. Then amateurs wrote Wikipedia. I was recently asked to talk about when it is better to hire an expert, and when it is better to crowd-source the task. Here is what I have to say about that:
Unique X-Culture Challenges with Photos (And Possible Solutions)
X-Culture has a unique problem. It’s hard to make photos “about” X-Culture. It’s easy to have photos “about” a business, or “about” a university. You take photos of the office building, or campus, or your employees in a conference room, or your product, or students in a classroom. That won’t work for X-Culture. We have…
X-Culture Alumni: “I can do that!”
Story by Terry Gallagher Dr. Taras, This past semester I took International Business under the tutelage of Professor Lynden. In that class I was enrolled in your “project” called X-Culture. Through the process of writing the report due at the end of the class, it never clicked with me what exactly we were doing. As an…
Students are very happy with the 2017-1 round of X-Culture
The 2017-1 round of X-Culture is over and here are some satisfaction statistics from the almost 5,000 students who participated this time. Overall peer evaluations averaged around 4.0=”Good”. As you see, a small percent of the students got low peer evaluations, but the vast majority (about 85%) are above “OK” and most are in the…