Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 26 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

Notice the changes in how the links are presented below? They are now listed by the Useful Resource Page. The most useful links are added onto these pages every week. What else is new this week?

International Social Media Marketing

Twitter plays a big role in my international social media marketing. But it is only one part. During the last month, I took the time to revise my social media marketing strategy as a whole. Here are the big changes:

• Facebook Fan Pages for CindyKing.biz and for Get International Clients
• More social bookmarking activity for a wider  presence on StumbleUpon, Delicious, Mixx, Reddit and BizSugar
• A new Posterous profile
• Improved strategic social bookmarking with an action plan adapted to my business

The good news is that this brings extra visibility to every link I tweet about.  So…

Please remember to DM me @CindyKing if you have anything of interest on cross-cultural competence and international business… not only will you get a tweet, but you will probably also get some extra social bookmarking.

Last Week’s Tweet Strategy

This last week personal priorities kept me from implementing the new and improved scheduled Tweet Plan. But it is coming soon. I promise.

In the meantime I continued with what I refer to as “CNN broadcasting”. This is where I simply tweet or retweet any useful information found during routine monitoring of key topics of interest to my business.

This means that I now have sufficient data to compare the results from my first Scheduled Tweet Plan to this “CNN broadcasting”. And the results are obvious. My first Scheduled Tweet Plan won hands down in bringing me the contacts I want to make on Twitter. So, I am anxious to get the new and improved Scheduled Tweet Plan into TweetLater as soon as I can.

Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Get Extreme With Clarity

We are on the home stretch for the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Get Extreme With Clarity. The second mini-poster calender with all 30 tips to Get Extreme With Clarity from this Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge will soon be available, so remember to check back soon.

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

International Market Research Rolodex

1. BrazilTradeNet - the trade promotion portal of Brazil’s Ministry of External Relations
2. iCityData.com for US client research – you can also compare data
3. Top 55 Reference Websites

Marketer’s Rolodex

4. Free International Marketing Lessons from the Marketing Teacher’s Lesson Store

International Business Tools

Jobs

5. Recruiting Across Cultures: How to ensure effective Cross-Cultural Communication By Moni Lai Storz/li>
6. International Job Opportunities: The Riley Guide – Resources Covering Multiple Countries and/or Regions
7. Looking for a way to finance your an international travels? Teach Abroad: International Teaching Positions
8. Do you teach English as a Second Langauge? TESall.com – 4000+ ESL jobs
9. Are you an engineer looking for a international work? Expat Engineering Jobs
10. Do you work in the oil industry and want an international job? < rel="nofollow" href="http://www.oilcareer.com/">OIL CAREER Employment Resource Center
11. Do you work in the agriculture, food and biotechnology industries and want international work? AgCareers.com
12. Here is a large collection of mainly US Marketing Jobs – Marketing Hire.com

International Marketing Links

13. How To Write a White Paper to Attract Clients - Dumb Little Man
14. Commodities: If Iran Blows, Watch Oil – International Business Times – via @lean6s
15. South Korea Moving Gingerly Toward Being a Multicultural Society – via @HubWNNews
16. @pascalrodmacq – thank you for the tweet on Business Networking on #ecademy
17. It’s Inti Raymi – the Festival of the Sun in Peru
18. Quotations from Women about Women - Some Pretty Funny Stuff
19. Cross-Cultural Communication: Individualism vs Collectivism – @Bears4Life
20. Cross-Cultural Schoolbus Comparison: Japan & Pakistan – via @washingtonBNN
21. Huge opportunity for Multicultural Marketers: Hispanic population boom fuels rising US diversity #cnn RT @richardslerma
22. There Are No Shortcuts -To reach multicultural consumers, take the time to get it right
23. What happens when east meets west? Simple diagrams to explain cultural differences – interesting approach
24. US-France intercultural tricks: learn to know your “over-the-Atlantic” neighbour – via @euractiv
25. RT @diffblog – Cross-cultural support for gender stereotype threat – food for thought
26. Sophistimunity – a blog in English & Chinese on cross-cultural & international topics – via @sophistimunity
27. Intercultural marriages are more difficult – via @Brasilmagic
28. Australia is multicultural AND racist, says study – via @DynamicExport
29. Is multicultural marketing the answer for an adverse market? “take advantage of Puerto Rico” – DMNews
30. Cultural differences in shopping: USA versus Germany
31. Metric versus Imperial – How to thoroughly confuse Germans: Take away the metric system
32. “You do not do cross-cultural communication by doing away with your culture” – Stephen Mansfield – via @JeffPelletier
33. Multicultural festivals across England - via @GuardianTravel Do multicultural festivals increase awareness?
34. European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence & Management <1st Issue> (Limited Time – access to PDFs) – RT @WestPeter
35. There Are No Shortcuts – an article for anyone in multicultural marketing RT @HipCricketHR @TeleNoticias_ @Ojibray
36. For Multicultural Marketers – 10 things you should know about U.S. Hispanics – via @Creative_Gal
37. Should it be a handshake, kiss or salam? In multicultural Malaysia, it’s hard to say – via @allmalaysia
38. To Reach Multicultural Youth, Go Mobile - via @realtimenoel
39. Why is International Internet Marketing so Important?

Language Skills

40. Living Abroad: How to Choose the Country Best for You
41. Learn a Foreign Language for Free – 10 Great Starting Points for Language Education
42. My Happy Planet - Learn & Practice English, French, Spanish and More with Partners Around the World
43. Canadianisms and Their Translations! – via @michelfortin
44. Top 100 Language Blogs 2008 – Nominate your top language blogs for the 2009 list here
45. World Languages Map – some of the many languages of the world, where they are spoken & how many people speak them
46. Top Study Abroad Programs – sorted by language – Lexiophiles
47. 50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Read - via @littlebrownjen @humanspectrum @TheJuiceBoxx
48. Multicultural Children’s Literature – via @MarisaCamarillo

Social Media

49. RT @paul_mccord – Your company needs a social media strategy. Cindy King discusses how to set one
50. #followfriday recommendations for great tweets & info @mintblogger @Wchingya @rjleaman @eeUS @johnhaydon @jmoonah @PetLvr – RT @Rebecca_M
51. Got Green? – stands for something meaningful, not a mad Hulk
52. Live Blogging June 26-27 on Cross Cultural Management, you can read about it here – via @asiadigitalau @wickedboy
53. Useful Social Media Marketing Strategies – via @ploked
54. Forrester on the practicalities of European Social Media Marketing: It is early days - via @itsopen
55. 300 Case Studies Of Social Media Marketing #socialmedia – via @marioOlckers
56. Interesting round table video IN FRENCH – POUR LES FRANCOPHONES – Community manager, un poste à responsabilité
57. Which social media application to use for my business? – A few short questions and Hunch will give you the answer
58. @fredbascunana – @Akostic took the words out of my mouth: Très bonne vidéo sur le community management - Great round table
59. RT @sbaudart – @sophiemaheo BRAVO! Vidéo – Community manager, un poste à responsabilité – French social media insights
60. The 6 Spheres of Social Media Marketing – Print the useful diagram – RT @russrave @netSpray @Webtweet
61. The Top 20 Business Reasons To Use Social Media Marketing – Examiner.com – via @bestonline
62. Facebook movie coming soon, Zuckerberg not pleased – International Business Times
63. Blogs Aren’t Dead, They’re Just Fragmenting – via @michelfortin
64. Social Media – Why Sometimes It IS About You – and why you have to be someone your customers are happy to be with
65. Facebook to Emulate Twitter’s Follower Model With Profile Fans
66. 100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration
67. 10 incredibly cool WordPress shortcodes – found a couple that I want to try

Trivia

68. Game to match ethnic photos with regions of the world – Questions of Race and Racism – from University of Auckland
69. Layers of Life – Educational journey to the island of Sumatra to explore life in the rain forest
70. Interesting “Wordle” 4 US Presidents speeches on Islam – WSJ
71. 10 Breathtaking Viewing Platforms around the World
72. MIT Visualizing Cultures – reconstructing the past as people of the time visualized the world
73. Save Our Sounds Audio Map of the World - BBC
74. 100+ Portraits of Iconic People of All Time
75. The World’s 10 Most Unique Islands
76. 12 Of The Most Iconic Photographs Ever Taken
77. 12 Greatest Low-Tech Inventions
78. 10 Fascinating Frozen Wonders of Nature
79. Top 10 Protest Symbols – a Photo Essay from TIME

Videos

80. List of the 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos that made the Internet such a wonderful place
81. Parody of “Tweet It” sang to “Beat It” – RT @leonotgay @atizine @ripmJ4eva
82. Do You Speak English? - A good example of British comedy – BBC
83. Short YouTube video with some of the standard stereotypes about French people
84. YouTube Video with insights into the Turkish way of life – I enjoyed watching this one
85. YouTube video AUF DEUTSCH – Sorry you need to speak German to get this one
86. Short YouTube video illustrating cultural differences in how people count their cash
87. “Good Will Hunting Harvard” Bar Scene – a clear example of how our accents can create pre-judgments in others

World Maps

88. World Languages Map – some of the many languages of the world, where they are spoken & how many people speak them

Cross-Cultural Communication 30-Day Challenge 2 – Clarity

89. #cccctips 20 – Be sure keep your written cross-cultural communication simple
90. #CCCCtips 21 – In cross-cultural communication try rephrasing key points & difficult things to understand
91. #ccccTips 22 – In cross-cultural communication a good glossary is an invaluable tool to improve clarity
92. #ccccTips 23 – In cross-cultural communication do not forget to mention the obvious
93. #ccccTips 24 In cross-cultural communication break complex ideas into easy pieces and present them in a logical order
94. #ccccTips 25 – In cross-cultural communication tell others why you do things differently and explain your culture
95. #ccccTips 26 – Look for different perspectives to see how you can simplify & clarify your cross-cultural communication
96. #ccccTips 27 – Make sure that all of the elements of your cross-cultural communication say the same thing

Tagged as: International Social Media Marketing, Social Media Marketing, twitter marketing

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