Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 35 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

This week has been busy preparing for a new social media activity: Twitter Interviews. For the rest of this year I will interview the people I recommend you follow on Twitter. I hope you join us and say hello during these interviews.

There is no set time and day of the week – there are simply too many time zones and schedules to deal with. You can find the following week’s schedule here every Sunday. They will be easy to follow with a Twitter search of the hashtag #CKinterview.

I also recommend that you use TweetChat to follow the interview live – this makes it easy to comment, ask questions and follow what everyone else is saying.

New Interview Series – Cross-Cultural & International People On Twitter

This week I am starting a new series of Twitter interviews. Please note the dates & times below and join in the conversation. Your comments and questions are welcome!  The times are in Greenwich Mean Time or “GMT” – click on the links to see other times.

Next Week’s Twitter Interviews: Tueday, 1st Sept. at 11:15 GMT – @matthewbennet Wednesday, 2nd Sept. at 12:30 GMT – @steveroesler Thursday, 3rd Sept. at 12:00 GMT – @deborahswallow Friday, 4th Sept. at 18:00 GMT – @ohh_la_la Find us & join the conversation with #CKinterview

Cross-Cultural & International Tweeters

Here are the people I added this week to the list of people on Twitter with strong cross-cultural & international profiles.

@ChristinaRogge – in Taiwan @dkiernan – in Ireland @fred2baro – in France @steveroesler – in USA

The the fun and useful links from last week’s tweets are below.

Business

1. The Big Mac Index: Globalization At Work
2. Differences In Purchasing Power
3. Globalization – Where was it made?
4. Think local – while operating globally RT @Enhanced_Teams @CultureMatters
5. What’s Your Country’s Corruption Perception Index? RT @DeborahSwallow @CultureMatters
6. RT@mywifequit The Ultimate Small Business Startup Guide – Intro to a 7 part series
7. RT @dkiernan – Why Good Strategic Partnership Fit is Imperative
8. Government Spending Lifted Germany Out of Recession Part1 – via @TransDomo @CultureMatters
9. See @TimBerry’s video summary on business plans – via @bplans @lyceum – Anyone have anything on international biz plans?
10. Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway by @asmartbear Fascinating stories on early days of PayPal & Flickr! – RT @lyceum
11. Reading #SMBChat on Copyrights and Trademarks: What You Need to Know for Your Website – via @smallbiztrends @lyceum
12. Coyotes vs. Road Runners: Cross-cultural Management in the Americas – RT @CultureMatters
13. The Role Of Partnerships And Strategic Alliances With Customers And Suppliers – via @TopSalesExperts @dkiernan
14. RT @TheLocalGermany @TransDomo Berlin supports G20 limits on banker bonuses

Content Marketing

15. 9 Ways To Run Your Blog Like A Small Business
16. Copywriting Success Summit just announced (for the marketers seeking to fast-track business growth) #css09
17. New online summit to learn written communication skills to fast-track business growth #css09
18. Copywriting Success Summit – for the marketers seeking to fast-track business growth #css09
19. RT @wchingya Rule of Thumb: “When you write anything electronically, do the Mom / child / employer check” — g8 advice fm @merylkevans

Cross-Cultural Blunders

20. Avoid a blunder like this, get the right Asian fonts installed if you need them – via @LCWllc
21. Culture Shocks – Funny & Embarassing stories of Cross Cultural Encounters – RT @PreKlanguages @languageschool
22. Cross-Cultural Marketing Bloopers in Translation – RT @KarenDeepsmart

Cross-Cultural Communication

23. Culture Crossing – cross-cultural etiquette & understanding @intercultureNet @gedankenreiter
24. Ten Tips for the Intercultural Leader: Few successful businesses are now mono-cultural RT @UtahPulse
25. Career Choices: Cross Generational + Cross Cultural = [Completely] Lost in Translation? – RT @ElineKullock
26. Microsoft get it wrong: a multicultural human ‘mash-up’ (Ford also did this a couple of years ago) – RT @tmphillips
27. US military is developing a new Cross Cultural Competence training programme for its soldiers – RT @CultureMatters

Cross-Cultural Differences

28. Modern manners: forking hell – Cross-cultural pitfalls RT @LifeandStyle @MarianDougan @KellyWester
29. Japanese Customer Service Means Always Having to Say You’re Sorry
30. RT @CultureMatters Death By Culture?
31. How Children Behave Across Cultures
32. RT @frenchlanguage @icpjones French Wedding Traditions
33. What Do I Know From Kosher? Lessons Learned From a Cross Cultural Writers’ Group
34. Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Students Bridge Cultures with Videoconferencing RT @ernestlehmann @RLInfoServices
35. 5 possible solutions 4 the GM-Opel saga – @HoeferleConsult thinks this is part of a big #intercultural issue, do you?
36. Culture Shock and International business, tips for women – via @aazmanda
37. Comparison of American & German crime TV shows: CSI vs Tatort by @nytimes http://bit.ly/qPI9C and by @HoeferleConsult
38. Quentin Tarantino Explains The ‘Three Fingers
39. Viral Marketing at Death Star Germany
40. Are Spanish People Rude? – by @matthewbennett
41. France 2.0 is “tres Americaine” | GlobalPost
42. Where do compassion and sympathy fit in cross cultural experiences? An expat in cambodia reflects – RT @pdxnicolle
43. Challenges for Women in International Business and How They Overcome Them – RT @globalEDGEblog

Languages

44. Type French accents - online keyboard
45. Cross-Cultural Marketing Bloopers in Translation | One Hour Translation Blog
46. Study Shows Bilinguals Are Unable to ’Turn Off’ a Language Completely
47. Foreign Service Institute – free language courses
48. Doing International Business? Firefox Translation Plug-In to Increase Global Dialogue – RT @rww @lesterg
49. Working with right-to-left languages – how information to be placed on the screen and in reports – via @LCWllc
50. Practice Estonian with animated bunnies – via @pocketcultures I had difficulty following along with the text

Marketing

51. Why modern women behave more like men – via @NewPsychologist @CultureMatters
52. TED Talks “Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation” – via @Larryferlazzo
53. Search Public Records – Links to searchable public record databases – US, Canada, Australia, & Europe
54. RT @davidiangray Radio irrelevant for under 35’s RT @marketingcharts Radio Slumps 22% in Q2; Digital Continues to Grow
55. Excellent report: ‘Engagement’ ranking of the ‘Top 100 Global Brands‘ – RT @JenniferNovia @GlobalMktgPros
56. Countries that Speak Arabic – via @expatify @CultureMatters
57. IMAGE USA’s Blog on Marketing Communications | Multicultural Marketing – RT @mackdigital
58. Vibrant Design Group McDonald’s version of multicultural marketing RT @VibrantDG
59. More Retirees Find Facilities Speaking Their Language – #AgingServices #multicultural – via @AAHSA @OKeefeComDC
60. Multicultural broadcasting – Ethnic language broadcasts to help foreigners in Korea adapt easier
61. Europe Seeks to Ease Rules for Putting Books Online #business – via @truebusiness
62. International marketing made easy – animated slideshow – via @SajeevGopal
63. The Luxury-Brand Effect: Should BMW Sell Ketchup? on TIME #brandleader – RT @MartinRoll t_de_baillon

Sales

64. RT @SalesBlogcast reminds us that Your Very Best Will Change Your Life #sales #leadership
65. RT @SkipAnderson Racism: Alive and well in the consumer market? What do you think of this incident?

Social Media

66. Why everyone on Twitter is a community manager – RT @thebrandbuilder @InterLeafer
67. FriendFeed is over: Time for a Blog Revolution – What do you think?
68. How Seriously Do You Take Blog Comments? by @wchingya
69. 2009 Social Network Analysis Report – Geographic – Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed
70. The meaning of Social Media for Baby Boomers looking forward to live abroad — The Social Media Revolution
71. RT @mintblogger How To Land Your Dream Job Through Your Blog
72. 19 Social Media Tips Under 140 Characters by @shanegibson
73. The Enigma called Twitter – with some interesting projections into the future
74. Listen to @shanegibson ’s audio tweet. Making social media easy
75. RT @shanegibson Instant fame? This kid did 78 videos before he got on TV. Social media takes focus
76. Keep Social Media Social | The Big Money
77. 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers @OPENForum RT @lizstrauss @TimboReid
78. What Is Social Media and Social Media Marketing? – via @GregKThompson @smmguide
79. India becomes the third highest Twitter using nation – via @leplan @t_de_baillon
80. 6 Types of Tweets That Get Retweeted – by @PennOlson
81. 5 Common Mistakes When Measuring Social Media ROI – via @RT_Asia
82. @Akostic Do you know if there is a French version of Follow Friday? @lyceum says they use #FFse in Sweden – Is there a #FFfr?
83. @lyceum – @Akostic says the French use the followfriday tag too & some people use #suisvendredi tag, the French translation
84. RT @ohh_la_la Over 7m French on Facebook vs 20m in UK

Travel

85. A Singapore Taxi Driver’s Diary - via @DoreenatDMS
86. Bay of Fundy finalist in global New 7 Wonders of Nature competition – via @CanadaCool @DoreenatDMS #votefundy
87. Learning the Social and Business Customs of Greece
88. Navigating the Most Urban Countries

Trivia

89. 17 Wonderful World Map Wallpapers
90. RT @guykawasaki @ginaruiz – 30 useful websites you probably didn’t know about
91. GetHuman – Stop being frustrated with automated phone systems
92. Creatively Connecting People
93. Online Conversions – Convert any measurement to another – Extensive and useful resource!
94. RT@pocketcultures – @jackyan is thinking about how much he enjoys the carless Sundays in Amsterdam & Bruxelles
95. RT @GuyKawasaki @ginaruiz 50 funny people you should follow for a giggle on Twitter
96. Ukraine’s Got Talent
97. Augmented ID by TAT: Mobile Devices Become Clairvoyant – PSFK – with facial recognition software
98. South Korea to start multicultural radio station
99. The Next Breadbasket? – The Atlantic (Sept 2009)  There’s a cool world map to click on & see potential food production
100. Dollar rises broadly as Chinese curbs on redundant investments may slow down global recovery
101. German software company SAP fined billions by US court RT @dw_english @HoeferleConsult
102. “What is postcolonial thinking” Interview with Achille Mbembe – via @jranck
103. Video animation showing the construction of the international space station RT @kottke @sgourley @Tosk59
104. $1 buys 1200 calories of crisps / 875 cals soda / 250 cals vegetables / 170 cals fresh fruit RT @feather @pierotintori
105. Life In Iraq Before and After The Invasion (some stats) – RT @Tosk59
106. @dkiernan Nothing new to share on Ramadan – It’s not biz, but have you seen any of these videos?
107. 13 yr old girl wants to sail round world. Parents say yes. Dutch authorities want custody – via @iamkrissy
108. RT @DoreenatDMS @digitaljournal Wearing ‘Islam is the Devil’ shirt gets students sent home
109. RT @DeborahSwallow 101 Ramadan – A good resource of ecards to send to family & friends to wish them a joyous Ramadan
110. Jules Cafe interview with @PicSeshu who specializes in multicultural, ethnic and interfaith weddings

Web Marketing

111. SEO – How to Rank Well in Multiple Countries – Internationalization, Top Level Domains, and more…
112. Social Networking and Virtual Multilingual Communities
113. Starbucks puts its web site where its growth is – in international markets
114. 9 WordPress Hacks to Encourage User Interactivity – via @smashingmag RT @crowdSPRING @Hakicoma
115. RT @OPENForum Why Use Email When You Can Simply Tweet – American Express OPEN Forum – I’m hearing this often now
116. Use International Search Marketing – Just Like Google! Google’s international business growing more – RT @intervesti
117. Building multilingual websites – Now *this* is interesting #multilingual #multicultural #translation RT @DoreenatDMS
118. How I Use The Internet to Spot Trends by @smallbiztrends – RT @lyceum
119. Culture differences in webdesign – 1: high/low-context by @ChristinaRogge RT @gedankenreiter #intercultural

Tweets About This Blog

Business

1. Follow Up With Your First International Clients
2. What is your favorite tip to follow up with international clients?
3. How do you follow up with your first international clients in new markets?
4. What stops you from following up with new international clients?
5. Join me on @bizSugar – Follow Up With Your First International Clients
6. Join me on @FriendFeed – Follow Up With Your First International Clients
7. @lyceum Thanks for tweeting my interview on @BizSugar “Take your small business global” – will answer your comments soon

Content Marketing

8. Investment In An International Business Blog
9. Join me on @FriendFeed – Investment For An International Business Blog
10. Learn How To Improve Your Marketing And Sales
11. Looking for better results out of low-cost marketing methods?
12. Need to learn skills to understand your readers & stay focused on what you need say to them for effective communication?
13. Need good copywriting skills to improve your sales and marketing?
14. Join me on @bizSugar – Learn How To Improve Your Marketing And Sales
15. Join me on @FriendFeed – Learn How To Improve Your Marketing And Sales

Cross-Cultural Communication

16. How International American And British Companies Use International English
17. Join me on @FriendFeed – How International American And British Companies Use International English
18. International English For Better Communication With Global Audiences
19. Do you know of any companies using International English?
20. Join me on @FriendFeed – International English For Better Communication With Global Audiences
21. Likability For International And Social Media Communication
22. What is it that makes you like people on social media?
23. What is it that makes you dislike people on social media?
24. Join me on @bizSugar – Likability For International And Social Media Communication
25. Americans Need International English Too
26. Do you know any companies that could benefit from using International English to reach wider international audiences?
27. When do you think companies should use International English?
28. Join me on @bizSugar – Americans Need International English For International Business Too

Sales

29. How do you learn to create strong relationships with your international clients? This is what I do
30. Join me on @bizSugar – How To Create Loyalty In International Clients With Strong Listening Skills
31. Join me on @FriendFeed – How To Create Loyalty In International Clients With Strong Listening Skills
32. The Multiple Facets Of International Sales Preparation
33. How do you prepare for international selling?
34. What do you do to prepare credibility in international sales?
35. What problems do you encounter when maintaining your business focus in cross-cultural sales?
36. Join me on @bizSugar – The Multiple Facets Of International Sales Preparation
37. Join me on @FriendFeed – The Multiple Facets Of International Sales Preparation

Social Media

38. How Do You Use Social Media For Business?
39. How did you find the right social media strategy for your business?
40. What is the most difficult step in finding out how to use social media for your business?
41. How do you use social media for your business?
42. Join me on @bizSugar – How Do You Use Social Media For Business?
43. Join me on @FriendFeed – How Do You Use Social Media For Business?
44. How Cultural Differences Impact International Social Media
45. Have you ever felt any friction on social media that was due to cultural differences?
46. Likability For International And Social Media Communication
47. What similarities to do see between international communication skills & social media communication skills?
48. Join me on @FriendFeed – Likability For International And Social Media Communication

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