Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 14 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

The tweets below are based on my core Tweet Plan which includes:

• 5 daily tweets on cross-cultural marketing for international sales
• Other interesting links and retweets I run across during the week

As you will see below, there are dozens of very interesting links each week.  The list below is the in order tweeted.  Many of these links are now listed on the corresponding Resource Pages – see the list in the right sidebar.

The Resource Pages updated this week with some of the cultural links below are:

• Book Reviews
• International Networking
• Language Skills
• Twitter People To Follow

Do you have an interesting or useful link on international business, or of cultural interest? Tweet me a link.

1. Social Media Marketing: Time Trap or Opportunity Magnet? New Study Reveals the Answers – Get @Mike_Stelzner s #smreport
2. International Marketing Review #45
3. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed – William James
4. Another bilingual blog, www.djod.co.uk – the good life in Shanghai. Thanks you @pocketcultures for sharing
5. Beautiful Images of Holi, The Festival of Colors (Boston Globe) – via @guykawasaki @pocketcultures
6. Translation project attempts to break internet language barrier | Technology | guardian.co.uk – Thank you @matthewbennett
7. @matthewbennett I’ve added you to the fun people on my Twitter profile – Cool list of 150 linguists!
8. G20 protesters to march in London – via @Scott_Herbert @beverlycornell
9. How difficult is Chinese? – Thank you @pocketcultures for such good insights
10. ‘How to Type in Japanese’ - very detailed article on input methods for Mac/Windows with tutorials! – via @attilam
11. Very interesting article: The Recession’s Green Lining (Newsweek) – Thank you @blandyne for sharing!
12. @bookjewel – http://yauthor.com/ -  for creating interactive lessons – this looks interesting! Have you tried this yet?
13. To read how people define their (US) city http://www.citydictionary.com/ – Thank you @CityDictionary @CRSpanish
14. Anglophobia, Catagelophobia and all these other phobias – http://www.phobialist.com/ – Thank you @CotterHUE
15. Some great short videos that show the various accents people have when speaking English
16. YouTube Has Added A Twitter Button – Thank you @SteffanAntonas @debra47
17. @TomVMorris When I did French pronunciation the teacher had us put a cork in between our teeth while we talked – to pull the muscles more
18. I just joined the WorldLanguagesTeaching Twitter Group so stop by and see us. #worldlanguages
19. “Curbside Consultation of the Colon” & other contenders for Oddest Book Title prize – Thank you @Fritinancy
20. Body Language – How many languages can you speak? I wonder if  “body language” is one of them? – Thank you @iLoveEnglish
21. Twitter Bigger Than Newspapers in the UK – Thank you @idocente
22. They Understand Us – But Do We Understand Them? A superb presentation by Andrew Jeppesen to promote languages
23. Don’t forget Earth Hour later today - Thank you @dudeneyge @grahamstanley
24. Be a part of the Global Voices Book Challenge – Read Your Way Around the World! – Thank you @georgiap – looks fun
25. Languages Videos – Be sure to search for your language in the box – Thank you @gaugler
26. Nice new site design for www.couchsurfing.com – 1 million members too! – Thank you @irishpolyglot
27. @irishpolyglot I’ve added you as a fun person to follow on my Twitter profile page
28. Around the World with 80 Schools – 136 schools participating from 27 countries around the world - Thank you @langwitches
29. Looking at the language training on http://www.radiolingua.com/ – Thanks @radiolingua @markpentleton
30. @_McLaughlin – others are also using Obama’s speech to teach kids English
31. A New Paris – Thank you @NadineTouzet – I can imagine seeing this some day
32. YouTube Being Blocked in China, Google Says – Thank you @mrmayo for sharing
33. This NYT article on YouTube & copyright generated some good conversation today in class  – TY @mrmayo
34. Howard Bennett writes about gross things for Kids Post – Again TY @mrmayo I also had a good laugh with this one!
35. Global Recession Survey – Survival Tips and Business Opportunities – Everybody trying hard to cope – TY @paulissima
36. Print your April 1st Financial Fool’s Day money & follow @G20Meltdown for updates from @paulissima
37. Zygote: Social Media ROI – Measuring the Unmeasurable – via @yongfook @rainbowhill
38. For Mandarin learners – Weekly translation of The Economist in Chinese, with English sentences too  – TY @spanishonly
39. Yesterday was thinking about moving house – would really like to be near a swimming pool. Barely awake, just saw this
40. Cultural humor from @takagi – A perfect example of cross-cultural communication
41. Get country- specific information
42. Have a multicultural heritage or are you close to some cultures? Make your own multicultural flag
43. How to Discover Your International Business to Get International Clients
44. #cccctips 28 – Be confident! Your own confidence or lack of confidence can influence effective cross-cultural communication.
45. #cccctips 29 – In cross-cultural communication… Avoid interruptions – let the other person finish speaking.
46. Keep your international development plan flexible so you can adapt it as you learn more about your new foreign markets
47. Geohive – geopolitical data on population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities
48. Now This is Multicultural!  Wylees Harvester – Afro-German News on this and that – RT @YleesHarvester @brandoneculture
49. Examine what is said, not who speaks – Arabian Proverb
50. Multicultural Snacking in Malaysia – by @umarket – definitely brought back memories of great food
51. 10 Ways to Build Your Blog Community with Twitter – RT @ivanbrezakbrkan @chrisgarrett – so true!
52. Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip 30
53. 64% of marketers use social media 5 hours or more each week & 39% for 10 or more hours weekly #smreport – @chrisgarrett
54. Where is your international business development coming from?
55. Is International English In Your Future?
56. Take the time and make the effort to understand how you need to sell to different cultures
57. How to use Multicultural Marketing to Get International Clients
58. When was the first time you were happy to have cross- cultural communication skills?
59. Indigenous funding wasted by poor cultural training: NGO in Australia – due to a lack of preparation in culture shock
60. Where do you think you will get most of your international sales from this year?
61. Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip 31
62. How One Tip From One Book Increased My Web Marketing Results
63. Look for popular web searches around the world
64. How do you carry out your international market research?
65. Plan your international marketing tactics for extra flexibility to respond to different cultural needs
66. Short funny story about selling coca cola in Israel – Effective Cross Cultural Marketing-Know Your Customer
67. #cccctips 30 – To improve cross-cultural communication, summarize what you say, & confirm your understanding of what the other person said.
68. #cccctips 31 – This month’s last tip to improve your cross-cultural communication is to cultivate tolerance of all differences.
69. The best way to start improving your cross- cultural communication skills is to ask questions and get curious
70. Free Mini-Poster With 31 Cross-Cultural Communication Tips
71. International Sales Best Practice – Believe You Can
72. So, it’s April Fools Day… what fools day jokes have you seen in your local press?
73. An online international lead generation strategy can increase your international sales
74. RT @hollga saw this April Fool’s joke (tipped off by Mashable) Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink
75. What else do you think you can do to develop your business internationally?
76. Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit – Jawaharlal Nehru
77. Do you think you can get away without an international marketing plan and still get international sales?
78. RT @helenabaronheid – Research shows 65% of failed mergers/acquisitions are due cross-cultural differences causing communication breakdown.
79. Need to improve your international business? Evaluate your cross- cultural communication skills.
80. Good read on cultural differences in France – The key to living in Paris is politeness – via @odemagazine @finikiotis
81. Very useful online tool to convert any measurement – weight, distance, even morse code! #fb RT! @johnhaydon @finikiotis
82. Moving photos of slave castles Elmina/Cape Coast, Ghana – via @GrowGhana @finikiotis
83. San Francisco humor on audio – Mah-gah-raht! More cross-cultural hilarity from Ms. Cho – via @cst_people
84. Create a Sales Guide or Cheat Sheet for each of the countries and cultures you sell to
85. The sign on the door of opportunity reads PUSH.
86. How does ongoing international market research improve your online business?
87. 92% More Visitors In March With One Tip From The ProBlogger Book
88. International marketing is more than asking for international sales
89. What international business are you losing through insufficient cross- cultural communication skills?
90. RT @lauravicens Laughing so hard, completely agree!… Casting in a multicultural society
91. Great tips – Multicultural Marketing – Chinese Communities in the West
92. Using Personas To Connect Online to create Hispanic websites and marketing materials
93. MyBindi.com – how an English-language social networking site helps 2nd generation Canadian South Asians
94. Britain’s local dialects – Stuart Jeffries quimbles about a wallage of blaefummery
95. Translation blunder – ‘Overloaded’ With U.S. English as the Language of Diplomacy: Izvestia, Russia
96. A quick guide on how to choose American or British English for web content
97. What is the primary reason why you want to get more international sales?
98. World map with unemployment rates since July 2007, the start of the crisis, & for all G20 countries
99. There are different ways to sell to your international clients, including export and trade agents
100. 11 Extinct Animals That Were Photographed Alive – Current rate of extinction = 100-1000 times higher than average
101. Have you seen the Miniature Earth video? If the world were only 100 people…
102. International SEO Challenges and Tips – country Top Level Domains, country hosting & customized content
103. Blog Critics on culture
104. How have you adjusted your marketing to target international clients?
105. How to use Culture- Customized Content to Get International Clients

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