Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 3 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

In the first Cultural Awareness Calendar, I explained why I think it is good to have an interest in international and cultural events, news and general information:

• To improve your international skills, capacity for empathy, and knowledge of different cultures.

This is also why I share my tweets here too.  You can find the links to the previous Tweet posts below.

Twitter is part of my social media marketing plan to reach potential international clients and networking buddies and targets all things international and cross-cultural.   Of course, I also follow current web marketing trends too.

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

As usual, chatting is filtered out… Here is the selection of my best cross-culture tweets and international links from last week:

1. A place for everyone to learn more about export
2. I used to work in the music industry & always note when this event is happening – MIDEM-World Music Market, Cannes, France
3. Ethnic marketing.  Re-tweet @womensuite  – 2008 a great year for women of color: spending power increased to $1 trillion & now 30% of US women. HUGE market!
4. Re-tweet @womensuite -  Multicultural makeover, anyone? Here are 6 tips to help your women’s group
5. Re-tweet @VincentWright -  Talking About “Twitter List Maintenance – Social Media Marketing Mastermind“
6. It’s World Religion Day – celebrated in 80 countries
7. Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy – Bill Cosby
8. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one – Henry Ford
9. Have to remember this one   @finikiotis -  There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in – Leonard Cohen
10. Re-tweet @finikiotis – Emerging markets paving the way. Mobile banking to exceed 150M users by 2011
11. Check out this Design Your International Visibility business guide on Get International Clients
12. The best path to international business development is by small consistent steps
13. @elevatedsky @DR4WARD – Use Google Translate to read foreign language info online? look at @BastianVPA ’s ImportBlog
14. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for… “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down – M. Pickford
15. A good resource for cross-cultural communication
16. New US marketing agency targeting Muslims in America
17. Re-tweet @AmandaMoss – Chinese Cross-cultural understanding . The Chinese language has no real equivalent for “yes ” quickly.
18. What kind of international marketing are you doing online?
19. Get a cultural experience, volunteer abroad
20. Start your international business with selling one product to one country
21. A Chart Chooser - this just what I need for current project
22. Example of new long-tail search analytics visual tool – very cool
23. Re-tweet @beverlycornell – Looking to fill some spots on my global biz podcast – know any top level dynamic international biz folks?
24. Me too! Re-tweet @alanweinkrantz – I’m starting to see Twitter as being a great replacement for local Chambers of Commerce if you work it right.
25. Re-tweet @copyblogger – My favorite scene from “Lost in Translation”
26. Re-tweet @ducttape – Will Start-Ups Continue To Fuel U.S. Job Growth?
27. Why Text Remains King of the Web
28. @finikiotis – Did you see this?  Re-tweet @Mike_Stelzner – Pic of people exiting floating plane in Hudson from @jkrums
29. Easy to follow instructions too!  Re-tweet @chrisgarrett -  How to Identify Your Best Customers Using Excel
30. How are you trying to make international sales?
31. Interesting: German food industry, agriculture & horticulture exhibition is called International Green Week Berlin
32. Global user gap
33. Websites go black in China
34. Check out this Cross-Cultural Communication business guide on Get International Clients
35. @LouisColumbus – Do you have Nitish Singh’s The Culturally Customized Website? Waiting for his new book
36. @LouisColumbus – Great place to start. How is your class doing with this? Easy? Anyone have the iPhone cultural dimension tool?
37. @davestei – Good point: allowing for more time to communicate with others not like us, including cross-generational sales
38. A good read for people in international biz.  Re-tweet @PhillipTusing – Results of Servcorp survey on international business etiquette index
39. Re-tweet @mstar2008 – Geert Hofstede’s cross-cultural psychology provide the maps of reality that social scientists need to explore humanity.
40. An interesting article on current challenge.  Re-tweet @abcnewsCanberra – Cultural differences isolating elderly Canberrans
41. @DR4WARD – Have you seen this competition to Tweet and win some fun prizes “YOUR worst business mistake of 2008.”
42. Interesting results of an Australian survey.  Re-tweet @finikiotis – Workplace manners–an international perspective
43. @khalidh – My worst business mistake of 2008 = waiting 4 months before starting Twitter because I thought it was a waste of my time #worst08
44. International marketing is proactive
45. Why do you think you need international market research?
46. Branding and Building an International Business
47. A Comparison of Words in Different Cultures
48. No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit – Andrew Carnegie
49. Re-tweet @tea_isme – “Social Media Marketing Madness“  [cartoon] AWESOME and TRUE. Any block could be me. LOL
50. Schedule more active listening time in cross-cultural sales
51. How are you developing your cross-cultural communication skills?
52. Re-tweet @stevethornton @perrybelcher – 2009 Social Media Predictions & Social Media Marketing
53. Re-tweet @askJayson hmmm – Code reading? and linguistic tricks, controversial for social media marketing, your thoughts?
54. Re-tweet @TheFrenchy @DR4WARD  – Interviewing Americans on their international knowledge! Caricatural but true and funny
55. A funny video on communication & pronunciation problems of an Italian in Malta. Re-tweet @TheFrenchy
56. So many do not understand host-country requirements, or come up with a campaign that is universal. @jackyan – That is a great way to say it! I’ve simply been re-hashing the 7 steps from domestic to global sales
57. What is your biggest problem with international marketing?
58. Coming from the Bahamas I know people with similar jobs.  Re-tweet @Travelwriticus – Thinking about applying for this job
59. @Travelwriticus – Are you sure they won’t confuse Austria with someplace else?  Happened all the time I lived in Switzerland (Sweden)
60. Re-tweet @Travelwriticus – New Poll, only for USA residents please: How did you hear about Austria the first time?
61. @DR4WARD – Looks like you are having fun there – a nice job – getting young people interested in int’l marketing today.
62. Amazing just how much work actually is involved too!  Re-tweet @Barry_at_IMPACT – …amazing # of companies can’t describe their own culture.
63. The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets – Alvin Toffler
64. On Twitter right now? Say hello & where you are to @DR4WARD ’s International Marketing class
65. What do you need to develop your business internationally?
66. International sales can provide a buffer to compensate unexpected losses in sales in your domestic markets
67. In the Orthodox religion it’s the Old New Year
68. Starting to develop your international business? Don’t forget to hone your cross-cultural skills at the same time
69. Yes, well said.  Re-tweet @kwg4now – Social Media Marketing is like a particle accelerator; the return is in the impact.
70. Re-tweet @verkoren - 7 Reasons Your Social Media Marketing Failed (and how to fix it!)
71. Re-tweet @wgaultier -  There are 50 million bloggers in China
72. A Cultural Generalization Out of Context
73. Re-tweet @RobertRogersLaw – Overview article on doing international business
74. A Culture GPS using Geert Hulsfof’s behavior scales – new mood ring?
75. A Communication Disconnect Between Two Cultures
76. An Example of Cultural Differences in Behavior
77. @edrivis – Indeed! @Mike_Stelzner shared my Tweet Plan story here, on New Year’s eve
78. Marketing Tactics For Different Countries
79. Re-tweet @chrisgarrett – Are you ready for social media?
80. Want to learn more about Social Media Marketing? Take the survey and get a free copy of the results
81. UK internet service providers must keep a copy of all emails sent in the UK
82. In Japan it’s Coming of Age Day – to celebrate the passage into adulthood
83. Representing global heritage.  Re-tweet @ruxandraale @worldresources – Vote now for the official New 7 Wonders of nature
84. A Third Culture Kid answers the question: Where are you from?
85. Re-tweet @tckid – Cross Cultural People – by Ruth Van Reken

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And for those of you who do not use Twitter, I will continue to put a weekly update over the weekend. That way you can also access the links and tips.

Again, remember…

If you have anything on international business, or of cultural interest…

Please tell me about it and I will share it both on twitter and here in the weekly twitter updates.

All you have to do is leave your link in a comment below or ping me on Twitter.

Find more tips and links on Twitter here

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