Culture Tips & International Links
This week has been a busy one in my office. Social media marketing continues to be a great stimulus for business.
Unfortunately my scheduled Tweets ended at the same time as my work load took a sharp increase. This means that my Tweets over the last week have not been in the usual format. But my Tweet Plan is back in action next week.
The Cross Culture Communication Challenge Tips, with the #cccctips hashtag, are going strong. This is the first of 4 different monthly challenges to help improve cross-cultural communication skills. The March challenge is focused on mindset. Short tips daily to help you focus on improving your international skills. You can find the tips here on this website or on Twitter with the #cccctips hashtag.
Following international and cultural events, news and general information helps to improve your international skills, capacity for empathy, and knowledge of different cultures.
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Do you have an interesting or useful link on international business, or of cultural interest? Tweet me a link.
Links to the previous weekly Tweet posts are below. Here is the selection of my best tweets and links from last week:
- International Marketing Review #42
- It’s International Women’s Day
- Where are you trying to get more international sales from?
- More TV Ads Project Images of Racial Harmony
- RT @AnneClement – Looking for a friend. Anyone know of any organizations in Beirut that need a volunteer for more than a year?
- #cccctips 7 – In multicultural marketing you may need to adapt different aspects of your business: Not just the marketing
- Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip 8
- RT @wchingya – Top 5 Brainiac Puzzle Play
- Listen to this if you would like to learn about Google analytics
- RT @jillkonrath IDC – 80% of content being generated by Marketing is never used by sales! Instead, they create their own. #sales20
- Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip 9
- When money talks, there are few interruptions – Herbert V Prochnow
- To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle – George Orwell
- Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures – Cesar Chavez
- The Role Of Creativity In International Skills
- Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass – you don’t see it, but somehow it does something – Hans M Enzensberger
- Let’s have fun! Print out Flat Stanley, take a photo with it & email it back to this 2nd grade class in San Jose, CA
- Two half- truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture – Arthur Koestler
- #cccctips 8 – Use cross-cultural communication for a deeper understanding of your international clients
- #cccctips 9 – International market research develops both your market intelligence… and your own cross-cultural communication skills
- RT @finikiotis @InvestInAfrica – More Oil Discovered Off Ghana’s Coast
- RT @finikiotis – Doing more with less: how technology is enabling Kiva (microfinancer)
- RT @finikiotis – Empathy = Growth. On the virtues of empathy in business. BusinessWeek
- Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip 10
- Are People In Small Countries Better International Business Developers?
- The Jewish holiday Purim starts today
- Book Review – How to use cultural studies Handbook of Cross-Cultural Marketing
- Spike Lee on BlogTalkRadio: Racism Is Still Festering in America, 2 decades after Do The Right Thing
- #cccctips 10 – Continue to develop good cross-cultural communication skills for more international business
- Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip 11
- ITB – World’s Leading Travel Trade Show starts today in Berlin
- #cccctips 11 – Cross-cultural marketing together with multichannel marketing can get you more international business
- Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge -12
- RT @tweetmeme – How Bloggers Can Make the Most of Twitter – Blogging Zest
- #cccctips 12 – Do not stop at the first hurdles in cross-cultural communication: take a step back and try again
- Custom Publishing In The UK
- Great short video – phone uses & branding in Africa – June Arunga on Western Attitudes Towards Business in Africa
- Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge – 13
- Reporters without borders – for press freedom
- Wikitravel - a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide
- Free Rice Vocabulary Game - you play, they donate 10 grains of rice each right answer
- One World – Nations Online - A portal to the countries of the world
- iTravelNet Travel Directory – photography, travel blogs and destination guides
- Mental Floss – The 10 Most Annoying Things Your Co-Workers Do
- NY Times Immigration Explorer – Select a foreign-born group to see how they settled across the United States
- Transcultural understanding
- Some very interesting perspectives here – CEOs for Cities
- A good example of a trilingual blog – different articles in different languages
- Global Voices – New Citizen Media Projects Foster Rising Voices in Ivory Coast, Liberia, China, Mongolia, and Yemen
- See your Vocabulary Game winnings RT @pg07 #freerice – You can see the rice being distributed in Bangladesh here
- Wal-Mart plans to open its first Hispanic-focused supermarkets this summer in Arizona and Texas
- @DDGriffith – There are quite of few countries that might face internal cultural shifts – Have you read the book MegaTrends Europe?
- @DDGriffith – Here’s the link for MegaTrends Europe – it raises some very interesting points
- Can Flat Stanley Spend A Day With You?
- Crossover Appeal, Popular Ballads About the Perils of Illegal Immigration Have a Surprising Heritage: Made in USA
- RT @Jonathan_Kantor @mequoda – Free white paper: Blogging for Marketing 101
- RT @Jonathan_Kantor – White Papers vs. Event Marketing
- RT @Jonathan_Kantor @handshake20 – A White Paper from Handshake 2.0: A Formula for Business Results Using Twitter
- RT @WebGuyWebTie – Outstanding event, International Business Summit in Tampa. Met people from around the world
- RT @SkyRiver – 12 countries, enemies of the Internet
- Diplomacy 2.0 With Cellphone Games, X-Life for Mid-Easterners to teach English language & American history & culture
- World’s poor drive growth in global cell phone use – 6 in 10 people around the world have cell phone subscriptions
- RT @SkyRiver – Happy 20th Birthday World Wide Web
- Scientific American – Remembering the Day the World Wide Web Was Born
- Int’l swearing by Slate – Global Motherf*ckers, Does every culture use the suggestion of maternal incest as an insult
- International business to business payments & worries of losing profits in transition
- Half Empty or Half Full – 45% say they would choose to start a company if entering workforce during the recession
- Got optimism? Hey, where is the silver lining on my economic storm cloud?
- Text to Speech – Want to hear how to pronounce words? Type them in, select language & speaker then sit back & listen
- The 100 Best Business books of All Time - what they say, why they matter and how they can help you
- RT @Rogercparker – One of my all-time favorite blogs; never fails to cheer me up
- RT @Rogercparker – Free report, 18 biggest white paper design mistakes, applies to e-books, too
- RT @Mike_Stelzner – How to find a job using Twitter (good read) {much also applies to freelancers}
- RT @Mike_Stelzner – Home intruder confronted live on Twitter and online TV by technology writer Dave Prager
- RT @Mike_Stelzner @steverubel - ABC to interview McCain via Twitter. { Interesting! – let’s see how it works }
- Many Would Shrug if Their Local Newspaper Closed
- RT @finikiotis @Raquel_Soto It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it. ~Steven Wright
- RT @finikiotis @pattidigh: “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging prejudices.” – William James
- RT @finikiotis Interesting post @kiwanja about the implications of 3 tech/mobile breakthroughs on the developing world
- Future of Capitalism: 50 people who will frame the debate
- Remix Culture - What do you think? Protect remixes or crack down on them?
- RT @finikiotis – Informative: Knowledge@Wharton’s work on the Middle East after the Oil Bust
- RT @guioconnor – is watching the Meerkat Manor, the most interesting reality show yet produced
- RT @glcuccureddu Need ethical inspiration? Receive sayings from the Buddha twice a day! follow @thebuddha
- RT @beverlycornell @sheconomy – When Marketing to Women Take Note, Green is the New Pink
- RT @BastianVPA @michaelfieldcom – Race around the world to secure ‘world’s best job’
- RT @jillkonrath – Know Your Message Before Creating Your Slides, If you don’t want people thinking you’re Dilbert
- Read how @MeToo is doing some Girly Geek Shopping! A Eurostar initiative for French/Belgian clients
- To follow the Girly Geeks on their shopping spree go here to watch them live now
- RT @DR4WARD @rachelreuben – examples of schools using Twitter with links
- RT@DR4WARD - Be patient, 53% plunge in Dow Jones since Oct 07 will take 7-12 yrs to rebound
- RT @pocketcultures – New Blog of the World: a taste of Catalonia from Barcelona Photoblog
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