Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 25 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

This week my Twitter avatar went green in support of fair elections in Iran. Those who know me, know that I have no interest in politics. My motivation to go green was not at all political, but it was to raise awareness of what is going on outside of our own homes.

This week was also the third week of the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Get Extreme With Clarity. We are on the home stretch now to finish the month’s daily tips.

Remember to come back… at the end of the month there will be a second mini-poster calender with all 30 tips to Get Extreme With Clarity from this Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge.

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

1. A Cross-Cultural Glossary from the Multicultural Action Plan
2. American family’s web photo ends up as Czech advertisement – a friend saw them on a grocery store poster in Prague
3. 60+ Creative and Clever Advertisements
4. Generation Y Marketing Insights – A Look At How Gen Y Communicates – a quick overview – graphics tell the story
5. Latin Lives On – The Latin words you speak that are unchanged from the ones used 2,000 years ago
6. 131 Greek words used today that Aristotle would understand
7. One Bag – The Art and Science of Travelling Light
8. How Language Works – a book on language science by Michael Gasser
9. Multicultural Marketing: A Misunderstood Concept & Untapped Business Strategy – some multicultural initiatives to take
10. Competition in business will always exist but these countries set aside rivalries for common goal for wheat growers
11. #CCCCTips 13 – Try to identify differences in cross- cultural communication and ways you can bridge the gaps
12. Find out the meaning of first & last names used in different countries – The Origin of Words and Names – From KryssTal
13. It’s Flag Day in the US today
14. @codsta Here is more on Flag Day from Wikipedia and from Holiday Insights
15. Online Identity Calculator – make sense of your Google results – Listening to William Arruda who recommended this tool
16. Listening to William Arruda’s advice on managing bilingual personal branding online – decide what you are willing
17. Social Brand Index – List of businesses on twitter
18. What Color Is Your Brand Short - a short video reviewing brand traits attributed to different colors
19. Be Prepared To Expand With a Successful JV
20. Loving Day – Fights racial prejudice through education and builds multicultural community – via @jranck
21. From the #TED community: Play this intercultural communication game for a Colombian’s PhD thesis – via @Thandelike
22. Ford reaches out to multicultural women – via @multinfluential
23. Israel & England – A Cross Cultural Study Guide For Doing Business & Dating - via @datingadviceNZ
24. Here’s a weekly summary of ‘global’ multicultural talks – US & EU Community - via @haplifnet
25. Japanese cheeseshop in Paris: multicultural POP marketing – via @MediaMediorum
26. Is Your Accent Hurting Your Professional Credibility? – via @GregBarrette @joannemstein
27. Cultural FAQ and interesting sources to answer the questions – via @joannemstein
28. Fascinating History of Tea Drinking! - via @RanaSinha
29. How different countries treat working mothers? - via @RanaSinha
30. Jackie Chan weighs in on power distance - Fits with Hofstede’s PDI score of 68 for Hong Kong – via @bghansel
31. @katahdinme I think cultural generalizations can be interesting at a distance – but can easily get you into trouble in practical situations
32. For those who have to write case studies, here are some great tips for you – via @ClickDocuments
33. Leaving ‘Friendprints’: How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security – Knowledge@Wharton
34. Gary Vaynerchuk’s Bad Pitch Letter – Got a lot out of this by John Cass & the comments – people make mistakes & overact
35. 7 days free access to Language & Intercultural Communication - code V7DINTC00017939 – via @routledge_ling @joannemstein
36. More multicultural marketing blunders – via @beneubanks @Devoted2HR @EPetersonSHRM
37. Social Media Marketing Campaigns: How to Set Goals and Define Your Target Market – via @Akostic
38. LinkedIn Q&A – We are creating a profile of an incoming CEO of a leading international business – RT @mktquestions
39. 7 Days to a Successful Business Website – Day 6 – Visitor Retention – always a good idea to work on this
40. Find out how to calculate the ROI of Social Media by reading the post then the fascinating comment threads – Great read
41. Festivals.com - Find a Festival: Local Events, World Festivals, Music Festivals, Art Festivals, Film Festivals
42. Translation and Software Localization Blog – International Markets: Stars, Cash Cows, Question Marks and Dogs
43. Linkedin Group – International Business Team Building Alliance – 20+ countries – RT @exectweets @executiveoasis
44. Interesting read – Japanese Composers in the Multicultural UK: identity tactics and self-exoticism – RT @RoarUEL
45. Intercultural cooperation between French, British and Italian Engineers – personal experience from @jfitzgaynard
46. Creating a multicultural society in Korea – via @mixedchickschat
47. Publicity 101: How to Get and Work with International Clients as an Independent Contractor or Freelancer
48. Taking Your Business International
49. #CCCCTips 14 – Pay attention to the flow of your cross-cultural conversations & clarify things that seem out of place
50. Dropping Knowledge invites you to question yourself & the world around you. Some thought provoking questions & photos
51. Enculturation - a refereed journal devoted to contemporary theories of rhetoric, writing, and culture
52. #CCCCTips 15 – When the cultural connection is missing, look at your communication from a different angle
53. List of Origins of Racist Terms
54. @HoeferleConsult After living abroad for so long, I’ve lost touch with slang from my home. I don’t know what they most of these mean.
55. Faces of Tomorrow – What might a typical inhabitant of these cities look like in 1-2 hundred years of globalization?
56. #CCCCTips 16 – Adapt your cross-cultural communication to make it easy for everyone to understand
57. It’s the Dragon Holiday in China
58. Show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click
59. The Ranting Persian – A little of the story behind the green avatar and the 2009 Iranian Presidential “Elections”
60. I’m from a tiny country where politics was based on skin color. Iran details – Get green
61. #CCCCTips 17 – Cross-cultural conversation: Give clear answers to questions before giving any additional information
62. Interesting new Harvard Business School intercultural communications and relationships study – via @matthewbennett
63. “Being the First”: An Ageless State of Mind in the Multicultural Marketplace
64. Hadn’t realized how multicultural McDonalds is until now – via @couchpotatokid
65. Diversity Marketing. There’s an extremely subtle outreach effort in the midst of this funny/silly ad – RT @EPetersonSHRM
66. Deno Rosko’s Personal Intercultural Competence Development Plan
67. CNN asks – Was the Iranian elections fair?
68. Starting your own export business, the process explained
69. 10 Extraordinary Burial Ceremonies From Around The World
70. Check out www.daisyland.com, a new social media website devoted to helping celebrate the lives of lost loved ones – @JWWrites Plz RT
71. From Iran, There Is Only One Question…… And You Will Not Read It On Twitter
72. The best multicultural picture of the week – via @GilbertFoster
73. 5 Steps to Improving Your Intercultural Communication Skills As an Independent Service Professional – @MarjorieJanczak
74. #CCCCTips 18 – In cross-cultural conversations, focus on communicating one thing at a time and in the right sequence
75. “Pidgins and Creoles” or Why Machine-only Translation Will Always Fall Short
76. Managing Your Global Image on Localization Best Practices
77. #CCCCTips 19 – To Improve clarity in your cross-cultural conversation, know what you want to say before starting