Keeping communications high-context in the virtual world can be a frustrating exercise. Virtual interactions tend to favour low-context, direct and impersonal, forms of communication. If you’re from a high-context culture, beware.
Here’s a two-minute screencast I created to look at the high/low context conundrum, and what you can do about it:
(Update: This screencast is now part of a self-paced e-course on virtual collaboration that I developed).
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