Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 31 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

Last week friends visited from abroad.  The weather was great, so it was a week of “chilling out”, long walks and rock climbing in the forest of Fontainebleau, a 5 minute walk from the house.

The only progress I made on social media was to improve the writing process I use to write my blog posts. The extra submissions to social bookmarking sites such as BizSugar was taking up a little bit too much time. Spending an extra minute or two when writing my blog post makes it faster to submit articles to social bookmarking faster sites. Re-purposing content plays an important role in carrying out my social media strategy.  More about this in a longer article next week.

Here are the tweets from last week:

Content Marketing

1. @BridgetAyers Thanks for the inspiration to make presentations easy to read for a global audience.
2. Worksheet to help authors learn from and apply online marketing ideas used by others. Please RT @Rogercparker

Cross-Cultural Communication

3. Stereotypes Are Not Always a Bad Thing - some good guidelines – via @CultureMatters
4. One of the most important cross-cultural communications barriers – ethnocentrism – via @CultureMatters
5. Enterprise 2.0: We Got it All Wrong – a Cross-Cultural Misunderstanding RT @t_de_baillon @lehawes
6. Intercultural communication in Information and Communication Technology – via @CultureMatters
7. Listening Without Your Ears - on getting past limited language skills – via @leslieforman

Cross-Cultural Differences

8. How to give a toast in several countries #multicultural #globaldiversity RT @rliberni @KateNasser – Great read!
9. How To Toast In Different Countries
10. Backwards Advertising
11. Many people believe a culture is limited to a specific country. Open culture=not limited? – RT @gedankenreiter @intercultureNet

International Business

12. Replacing the Dollar: China’s Big Plans for Its Currency – TIME
13. French Small Business Booms with Auto-Entrepreneur Plan – Yahoo! News
14. Does your international business know how to connect with your international clients?
15. RT @adsheik How To Grow Your Multicultural E-Commerce Business – Lessons Learnt
16. What are the challenges in Internationalising Irish Software? – Good info outside of Ireland too from @dkiernan
17. The Role That Currencies Play in International Business | Money and Markets – Great read! via @adeel_sami
18. Asian lift: International business stirring in Florida law firms – via @CCCFinancing
19. Define International Business – Is your “international business” only about your company? #international
20. How real are your international client relationships? #international
21. What do you do to adapt your business to your international markets?

Multicultural Marketing

22. Will America Ever Be A ‘Post-Racial’ Society? | NEWS JUNKIE POST
23. Check out stats surrounding the multicultural world of social media marketing - via @cocobrit

Sales

24. What do you focus on when selling to international clients: cultural differences or similarities, or both?
25. How do you know what information you need to give your international clients for them to make their buying decision?
26. How do you adapt your written communication in your international sales process?
27. RT @SkipAnderson What’s a favorite of salespeople everywhere? “The Random Sales Process“
28. @shanegibson Listening to the podcasts you have put up on your Blogathon – some good stuff!
29. RT @SalesBlogcast shares 8 Tips for Overwhelming Your Negativity #sales #business #leadership
30. RT @renbor The way you sell as brand equity – Random Walk Up Sales Street #sales
31. What do you find difficult to listen for in cross-cultural selling?
32. How do you become aware of the different perspectives in cross-cultural sales?
33. RT @CompassNorthInc Is the recovery here? Is recovery possible? What can you do about it?
34. What are the common explanations your international clients need? #international #sales
35. How much time to you take to prepare the explanations you need to make an international sale? #international #sales
36. Where do you look for your international sales success stories?
37. How well do you prepare your international sales meetings? #international #sales
38. What cultural differences have you noticed in how your international clients run their businesses?
39. How do you know when your international clients do not understand what you say?
40. RT @renbor – Sticks and stones can break your bones but words can kill your sales #sales #STA
41. Here are tips 4 selling a biz @sellingmagicman
42. What do you find difficult to listen for in cross-cultural selling?
43. RT @renbor A plan is only as good as its execution – #sales #STA
44. RT @renbor gets some Retail Therapy #STA #Sales #economy #healthcare
45. How have listening skills improved your cross-cultural sales?
46. RT @SkipAnderson For me, it’s not just food; and it’s not just selling. A post about excellence
47. RT @SkipAnderson Managers: 25 ways to show appreciation to an employee
48. RT @renbor – Be productive by being proactive #sales #STA
49. #sales RT @SkipAnderson Some much needed therapy for retail

Social Media

50. RT @shanegibson: Blogathon 2009 Blog Entry #1 What is a Blogathon? Video #Blogathon
51. Social Media To Get International Sales
52. Please RT & leave comments for @shanegibson ‘s last stretch on 24hr #Blogathon for Vancouver Food Bank
53. What Have You Done for Me Lately? – Keeping Score in Social Media
54. Developing a Social Media Policy & Guidelines by @shanegibson on his 24hr #Blogathon for Vancouver Food Bank
55. Links And International Social Networking
56. Comparing reciprocal links with proactive link sharing for international social networking

Travel

57. Expat portal with very useful expatriate guides to individual countries – via @intercultureNet @CultureMatters
    

Trivia

58. Black males’ fear of racial profiling very real, regardless of class – Los Angeles Times
    
59. Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily – Yahoo! News
60. RT @shanegibson The Seven Habits of Highly Defective Leaders #blogathon 2009. Update #7
61. RT @meristemstudio @LiteracyCounts Some of my favorite multicultural fairy tales are retold by Gerald McDermott
62. Connect with Jennifer Cervantes: Why Multicultural Literature Matters. RT @AuthorsNow @BellaVidaLetty
63. Scarecrows in Gambia, Africa - #multicultural – via @jasonbpomerantz
64. Tan Hong Ming – Our Children Are Color Blind
65. China Junk Food Review
66. Canadian Heritage funds digitization of 20 multicultural newspapers on open access basis – via @michaelgeist @andrewip
67. How Many Of These People Can You Name?

Videos

68. Some Fun Videos On Muslims & Islam
69. The woman who created this amazing multicultural commercial recently died - R.I.P. Yasmin Ahmad – RT @uncultured
70. EU vs. Italy – funny comparison with a lot of #stereotypes – RT @intercultureNet

Web Marketing

71. Multilingual & Multi Domain Corporate Sites in WordPress – Yoast – Tweaking Websites

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