In recent years, social networking sites have witnessed a signi?cant growth in popularity and membership. These social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn use tools that also appeal to businesses. One important area of business application of social networking is to improve communication and trust relationships among virtual project teams (Sarker, Ahuja & Kirkeby, 2011; Anantatmula & Thomas, 2010). In this paper, the authors report the use of social media tools for virtual teaming for a large Vietnamese bank, Navibank. The paper delves into the strategic initiative and expansion into global markets using virtual project teams that communicated mostly through social media tools and services. Navibank (hereafter known as the Bank) is one of the top ten largest commercial banks in Vietnam. In a large project of opening ten branches of the Bank in Cambodia by the end of 2015, social media tools like Skype, e-mail, Facebook, instant messaging and video conference are being used by the Bank teams in Vietnam to communicate and work effectively with the new teams that are being formed in Cambodia.

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Improving the quality of active learning for students is an issue of concern at Tra Vinh University. In addition to transfering disciplinary knowledge, lecturers also pay attention to teaching personal and professional skills as well as attitudes. Since 2013 students have participated in a soft skills course which is required prior to graduation. Besides, lecturers are also trained and encouraged to integrate soft skills in professional teaching. This paper presents results from teaching observations and surveys with lecturers and students to evaluatethe success of integrating soft skills at Tra Vinh University. The results show that both lecturers and students realize the importance of soft skills in teaching specialized knowledge because they give many benefits to  learners. However, they also identify a number of problems that need to be solved to improve soft skills intergration at Tra Vinh University. The paper, therefore, propses several potential solutions to improving the quality of soft skills integration in teaching specialized knowledge.