Culture Tips & International Links
This week I did not run my Tweet Plan as usual. Instead I carried out an experiment to see what would happen without the scheduled tweets. You see, I have read advice against using scheduled tweets and wanted to compare results with scheduled tweets and without them.
To schedule, or not to schedule tweets?
Yes, I did get less inquiries. It was a busy week, so my live twitter presence was a bit less than usual. After analysis of the results, I will continue to use the scheduled Tweet Plan. They do add considerable value to my Twitter presence and social media marketing.
Should you use scheduled tweets? Well, I think it depends how you use the scheduled tweets.
It does make a difference that I am present live on Twitter several times a day, in addition to the scheduled tweets. The scheduled tweets are there to keep my Twitter presence focused on my core interests. But I also interact with live information within hours of it coming in.
Check out the useful links in the Useful Resource Pages you see in the right sidebar, these are growing each week. There are quite a few useful links below for anyone interested in international business and cross-cultural marketing.
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- International Marketing Review #51
- 4 tips on presenting to multicultural audiences from @steveroesler – via @athick2 & @OliviaMitchell
- Cultural Differences in Television Advertising Part 1 – from @beniers
- Cultural Differences in Television Advertising Part 2 – from @beniers
- RT @taiwanews – The China Beat: Academic Journal Report: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies by Nicole Barnes
- Multicultural UK? A look at how multicultural different regions of the UK are – via FeedtheSprout
- @steveroesler You’re welcome. If 70% of multinational biz ventures fail due to cultural differences, we need the tips
- Video from NASA astronaut says he will tweet & take YouTube questions live from space - via @loup_dargent
- Cross-Cultural Communication Strategies from University of Colorado – via @globe_rws
- RT @globe_rws – Cross-Cultural Communication (by LeBaron)
- Intercultural Communication Notes: Chapter 1 – via @MarjorieJanczak
- A list of city classifications – most twitter users, facebook, global cities, most liveable, hub culture, top digital
- A Google Alerts management system that looks interesting – Get more from Google Alerts commenting with less work
- There’s a difference between an online presence and online marketing, says David Meerman Scott
- Read why – then get 40% off the Social Media Success Summit ‘09 before it ends Thursday
- Cultural Differences in Television Advertising Part 3 – by @beniers
- It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head – Sally Kempton – via @lynndorman @chrisguillebeau @LuukChristiaens
- 10 Reasons Why Organizations (And Individuals) With Audiences Win – via @rjleaman
- Have a geotourism project? Take the Geotourism Challenge 2009 - they are looking for this years innovators
- I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. – Thank you @DDGriffith @DR4WARD
- Social Media Strategy – Do You Hire, Outsource, or DIY? -great read! – via @Mike_Stelzner
- Showing Off Your Solutions in a White Paper – New York Times – RT @Mike_Stelzner @jlcommunication
- Scientifically proven: Mexicans are one-of-a-kind (in fact, several genetic subpopulations) #genome – RT @globalculture
- Don’t forget this crucial third missing element in online marketing – international marketers should already know it
- Understanding Social Media For Stronger Web Marketing… International Too
- 25 Ways to Build Trust (and Sales!) With Customer Success Stories
- 10-yr US consumer trends – More multicultural families – Ethnic health/beauty products – via @soukieg @thefabgiver
- Cross Cultural Digital Marketing.. Womens Apparel in the Middle East... Dirk The Cow… – via @socialmedia2day
- How To Track Social Media Traffic of Your Blog
- Sean DSouza on a different kind of Plan B – Good video – I like having tons of Plan B’s – via @apoorvgadwal
- EMarketer on 2009 social media ad spending – look at the bottom for interesting info on international stats
- RT @BelkinB @JayGaddis – Ken Wilber’s take on saving the world through cross-cultural communication via Odemagazine
- Last day to get 40% off the Social Media Success Summit ‘09 - Read why it’s fun here
- RT: @chrisgarrett – Win a FREE ticket to Social Media Success Summit 2009 – #smsuccess – Check out the grand prize too!!!
- Mos Burger in Japan & Mister Donut introduce the “Donut Hamburger Mos” or “MosDo” – the hole is filled with wasabi
- TEDTalks now available in 40 Languages – including Urdu! That’s website globalization for you
- Tweet Value says my Twitter profile is worth $2748 – But I disagree, my twitter friends here give it a much higher value!
- Some good tips on Online Multicultural Media Planning – from @adsheik
- Hispanic population fuels rising U.S. diversity – via @cnn @beverlycornell
- Google is acknowledging a “service disruption” for Gmail. #googlefail – via @datacenter @PastorCortes – OK now my end
- 50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Read - via @NatEdAssoc @jodyth @jenniferfrantz
- Localize your email campaigns by MarketingSherpa – RT @localization @EDMtranslations
- It’s Armed Forces Day in the US today
- RT @benobear – Sandwiches with culture - via @erenemre
- RT @defencedebates – Denial and Delight: A Cross Cultural Analysis of Meat Eating
- Late-Night Culture in Rome – May 16 dozens of museums and art spaces open from 8pm-2am for the Long Night of Museums
- Palestinians and Israeli Jews to reach equal number by 2016
- Lost fans? 10 questions to melt your brain as season 5 draws to a close
- English-Only “Final Fantasy” Means Games Haven’t Grown Up on Game Life
- Ethnic Shift Coming to Retail Nielsen Notes, Rite Aid Realizes
- Norwegian dress for National day tomorrow - via @pocketcultures
- Tip For Improving Your Cell Phone Coverage In Remote Provinces In China – via @JeffreyJDavis @beverlycornell
- In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars - via @AAATranslation
- RT @kathika – 10 free things to do in Europe this summer – via @AAATranslation
- Economic Crisis and Global Mobility – relationship between immigration vs unemployment RT @Richard_Florida @globalculture
- We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things. – Southwest Air CEO – via @chrisguillebeau
- Be yourself, everyone else is already taken – Oscar Wilde …LOL! – via @JerryBroughton @YleesHarvester
- Taking life lessons from squatters, flashpackers and digital nomads – from @ChristiaanH @chrisguillebeau
- Britons ‘are the angriest people in Europe’ ? – via @Tosk59
- Waiting for that Great Leap Forward in Tanzania – via @InvestInAfrica
- Twitter Still Headed To The Moon With 17 Million U.S. Visitors In April
- Seven Ways to Promote Your White Paper on Twitter
- Why would you want to make your own Cola?
- Social Security in Other Countries – more social security agencies & organizations are publicizing their programs
- Juris International – Over 250 contracts, international contracts, model contracts &/or users’ guides
- World Press - 5204 newspapers – Listed by country – 192 countries
- African immigrants are a distinct and multifaceted group that is growing in number in the U.S.
- The Boss A Cross-Cultural – story of Ram Ramadorai, Chief executive, Tata Consultancy Services
- Doing Business with Poland - 38 millions inhabitants, 7th largest country in the European Union
- A Glossary for Trade Finance
- Expat Exchange – one of the largest online communities for English-speaking people living abroad
- Worldwide Legal Directory for lawyers specializing in trade issues
- NAFED – Indonesian Trade – 4th largest nation in terms of population & the largest economy in Southeast Asia
- IUCAB - 470.000 commercial agents in Europe, North & South America – generate revenues of more than $2.4 billion
- IUCAB – International Union of Commercial Agents & Brokers – Membership List by Country
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Thanks for thoughts concerning this matter of auto tweeting! I share your thoughts. At first, I listened to the advice of others regarding the services about Tweetlater or other tweet bots.
However, I after my own experiments over the past two months with Tweetlater auto-tweets, my followers has grown by thousands. And the “Replies” and “ReTweets” from my cool friends (followers) made that happen. Why?
I was able to tweet while I was away from the computer. Wait a minute, what about the personal relationships? Before I answer, let me say this, I use to literally sit in from of the computer tweeting one at a time and trying to respond or answer “Replies” or “ReTweets” or general tweets at the same time, it was less productive for me.
Actually, it’s more personal, because for one, I am the one writing the tweets not a robot. Second, I am able to spend more time writing my replies or responding to my followers, find more interesting links or things to tweet about, eventually writing blog articles, and more. I am able to spend more time reading bio’s and connect with hundreds of interesting people from around the world, which is so cool!
Be that as it may, what is impersonal about that? (smile) Now, I am not presenting a debate with anyone regarding this issue here. I understand the reasoning behind there passion against services like “Tweetlater” because I felt the same way until I opened my mind to a different perspective.
Listen, I get the tweets where, “Are you bot?” etc. I am not ashamed of botting tweets, nor would I feel to the need to pretend. I tweet 24/7 and obviously, I am not doing it myself, and most understand that. Guy Kawasaki said it himself, and I am going to paraphrase, “If the tweets are good, who cares what’s behind the tweet?” I tweet only tweets that I think my friends (followers) find useful or interesting or even inspirational.
If a friend sends me a “Reply” or “ReTweet”, they will definitely get a response from me personally as soon as possible. And it feels great to receive the many tweets from my friends (followers) telling me how much they enjoyed the tweets or found them useful etc. It makes me smile and brings me joy truly. I love what I do, and would feel like I let my friends down if I didn’t.
I will add this fact, most people don’t know how much work is involved in doing what I do. Ultimately, I save people time by finding interesting articles or blogs or inspirational tweets and setting it up with TweetLater. It cost my time, but it is well worth it! (smile)
When I first signed up for TweetLater, I did not understand how to use it and the tutorials were obviously written by techies because they assumed a lot of things. Wait a minute, it was not until several weeks later before I starting really using TweetLater and I am still learning better ways to be more productive.
In conclusion, there is nothing immoral or unethical about botting. Thanks Cindy for this article! (smiles)
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Hi Paul! Thanks for leaving your comment.
Well, I can definitely see how some people can use scheduled tweets in a bad way and annoy others. I think there are no definitive rules. There are several factors to take into account and you really need to know who your followers are, or who you want to follow you. It’s funny how some people can get all excited one way or another. Some people might not be able to use scheduled tweets, and others might be able to get away with nothing but scheduled tweets. A little bit of thought and intelligence will help you find the right way to tweet.
As a solo entrepreneur I definitely like the scheduled tweets. Just like you, I put in a lot of thought and research into my tweet plan… one weekend afternoon a month, when it suits my schedule.
I should have said that I only schedule 5 tweets spread out during the day on 5 different subjects and vary the type of tweets each day, so my followers do not get bored. These 5 tweets focused on my core subjects do create a backbone that defines my subject area which is why people follow me. And I schedule them during the time I’m awake – not far from the computer so I can respond within a reasonable time frame. And of course, in addition to these 5 tweets, I add in others during the day. And when things get hectic I know there are still the backbone tweets.
Twitter is fun. It’s even more so when you find the right way to use it for your particular needs, style and followers.
I definitely think it’s okay to schedule tweets. It makes it interesting especially if you change subjects. I try different topics once a day and auto tweet them 2-3 times per day.
Mix it in with actual tweets and retweets and it works. I even like some of the spam. Helps me keep up with what they’re doing. If it’s really bad I’ll unfollow and/or block.
It also acts as a review for me at the end of the day. I can go look at what I auto-tweeted. Kind of like a public RSS reader for me. Kind of like Google Reader – Shared section.
For those of us who auto-tweet, it brings more followers as mentioned above and retweets, and that’s good. Also, twittering is great for blog/website traffic. It’s another stream and can be a very effective stream of traffic.
Overall, a balanced mixture of “real” tweets and auto-tweets helps. Even stopping tweets for a day, two or three is interesting because you’ll still watch your followers grow.
The personal relationships/trust comes over time as I watch and see everyone’s face/avatars and tweets, and the content of those tweets, etc. – “Cool, look what Cindy is/was talking about today, I’d like to respond/contribute.”
Of course, another alternative would be to look in your RSS reader and copy and paste stuff you want to go out in a timed fashion. That way you’d have complete control of what goes out to the twitter stream using your name.
Now, if any x-rated or inappropriate stuff gets in those auto-tweets, God help us.
Which reminds me, maybe twitter should put an x-rated check box next to profiles, that way you could not accept auto follows and auto-tweets from those marked x-rated. Maybe a global x-rated pool. Just thinkin.
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Hi Bill,
Thanks for your comments.
…It’s funny, I’ve also noticed the rise in x-rated tweeters. Let’s hope a solution comes up soon.
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