Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 19 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

There are some very useful links this week that are now going onto the Useful Resource Pages you see in the right sidebar.

This week I experienced my first problems using Twitter.  Although this slowed down my Tweet Plan a bit and there are fewer Tweets this week, things are back to normal again. With so many people on Twitter, I did not expect my help desk ticket to get such a quick response, but their support service was top.

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

1. Do not confuse an international business with the terms “global business” or “international trade”
2. Great brainstorming questions to improve your international web visibility – free for subscriber
3. Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty & flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected – G.Soros
4. Become a cultural detective
5. It’s World Press Freedom Day
6. Free online language courses
7. Cross-border negotiation on www.negotiation.biz
8. The CIA World Factbook
9. Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World – another interesting way to view the world by different cultures
10. IBRC – International business resources aimed at small and medium-sized companies who want to go international
11. Ethnologue – An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages
12. International Marketing Review #50
13. Consider country- specific sub- domains or sub- categories instead of top level domain names for each country
14. RT @davidecorradi @andyatkinskruge Don’t expect an SEO to do translation or a translator to do SEO!
15. special characters and unicode symbols you can use in Twitter #1: ♥ ♠ ♤ ✩ ★ ❦ ☪ ☭ ☮ ☯ ✝ ☥ ✈ ☎ ☤ ✉ ✇ ☁ ☂ ☃ ☼ ☾ ☄ ✂ – via @davidecorradi
16. special characters and unicode symbols you can use in Twitter #2: ☺ ☻ ☹ ☠ ♺ ✌ ✏ ☛ ☚ ☝ ☟ ☟ ✍ ♬ ♫ ♪ ✔ ✖ ♛ ♝ ♞ ♘ ♖ ♟ ♕- via @davidecorradi
17. special characters and unicode symbols you can use in Twitter #3: ☑ ☒ ♀ ♂ ♨ ❁ ❀ ✿ ✾ ✽ ✺ ✵ ☉ ☇ ☈ ☡ ✠ ☊ ☋ ☌ ☍ ♁ ✇ ☢- via @davidecorradi
18. special characters and unicode symbols you can use in Twitter #4: ☣ ✣ ✡ ☞ ☜ ✜ ✛ ❥ ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓ ☬ ☫ ☨ ☧- via @davidecorradi
19. special characters and unicode symbols you can use in Twitter #5: ☦ ✁ ✃ ✄ ✎ ✐ ❂ ❉ ❆ ♅ ♇ ♆ ♙ ♟ ♔ ♕ ♖ ♗ ♘ ♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞- via @davidecorradi
20. special characters and unicode symbols you can use in Twitter #6: © ® ™ … ∞ ¥ € £ ƒ $ ≤ ≥ ∑ « » ç ∫ µ ◊ ı ∆ Ω ≈ * – via @davidecorradi
21. special characters & unicode symbols to use in Twitter #7: § • ¶ ¬ † & ¡ ¿ ø å ∂ œ Æ æ π ß ÷ ‰ √ ≠ % ˚ ˆ ˜ ˘ ¯ ∑ º ª ‽ – via @davidecorradi
22. Online Converter – To convert measurements of all kinds, even morse code
23. The Art of Building a Successful Social Site – via @mintblogger
24. Emergency Backup Blogging Kit (bloggers, you need to read this..) – via @wchingya
25. When all other means of communication fail, try words – unknown
26. Who is “morally inedible”? Globalization Is Without Question A Cause of This Influenza Epidemic
27. Caribbean fears witch hunt in tax haven crackdown
28. Media failing multicultural societies
29. Ansan City to Build Town for Foreigners – a special multicultural district south of Seoul
30. The number of Korean adolescents who have foreign mothers soaring due to the increase in multicultural marriages
31. Are Multinationals Good for America? Get the Facts
32. More than 90% of US organizations said they expect their cultural diversity to increase during the next 3-5 years
33. How to use social media to make your content viral - DM me yr questions if you can’t make it 2pm EST on BlogTalkRadio
34. White papers & social media marketing? Listen to Mr. White Paper – Mike Stelzner on BlogTalkRadio today 2pm EDT
35. Get International Clients With The Right Content
36. RT @officesociety – Lead a multicultural team effectively
37. France wrests title of sleeping giant: The industrialized country where people spend the longest periods sleeping.
38. Watch this video to see why Thesis is so special & much more than a Wordpress theme. Best blog investment I made
39. Fabrice Grinda And A Free International Web Marketing Strategy
40. RT @Mike_Stelzner Introducing… my new apprentice @Apryl_Parcher Congrats Apryl!
41. @Apryl_Parcher – you have good reason to be! Congratulations on winning the White Paper apprentice competition!
42. Looking to Hire the Most Creative Employees? Find the Candidates Who Lived Abroad – via @AAATranslation
43. Tips on How to write a better White Paper from ClickInsights Expert Interview Series
44. RT @sinikkalw – Intercultural communication skills are essential today – don’t follow this guys example!
45. RT @TrainingTsar – Tsutomu Yamaguchi now age 93 visited Hiroshima , 08/06/45, returned to work in Nagasaki, 08/09/45
46. Global Directory - A community built guide to cross-cultural etiquette & understanding – via @vale24
47. Just want to share – I opened a Twitter helpdesk ticket about my DM problems & they helped IMMEDIATELY! Very happy to be back to normal
48. Should children’s books be more multicultural? A case for diversity in children’s books and other media
49. Cross-cultural communication & travel – RT @GoLocalTravel – Rude Travellers + Gentle Tourism
50. The International Business Awards
51. Guerrilla Marketing With Social Media To Enter New International Markets
52. RT @tweets2go – Phillip C. Winslow on the cultural cross-currents in the West Bank #politics #writing
53. @swoodruff – Here’s who I’d like to have a #ccc conversation with – #FollowFriday #FF2
54. Twitter FollowFriday – Dean Meyer
55. RT @nomad_chicken – Malaysia’s multicultural mix
56. Cross Cultural Development & Namco Bandai Games America - Japanese video gamers expanding West – via @declantest

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