Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 36 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

This week was a week of social networking and Cross-Cultural Twitter Interviews.

Launch Of The Cross-Cultural Twitter Interview Series

I learned so much doing last week’s Twitter Inteviews that I am going to write a separate blog post.  And I am thankful that I opted for a quiet launch to this Twitter Interview series.  The first interviews were too slow. This was partly my fault for having too many questions and partly due to technical issues. Twitter was slow.

There was a second technical glitch. The promotional tweets to tell people about the first Twitter Interview did not get sent out. I use TweetLater and last Tuesday TweetLater was down because they were in the process of migrating to SocialOomph.

What I did learn was that TweetChat worked very well despite the couple of seconds delay in the tweets coming through. It is great to have a tool everyone can access where you can see live streaming tweets with the hashtag #CKinterview.

After the experience this week the Cross-Cultural Interviews will be in 2 parts:

• Part 1 – Blog post interview
• Part 2 – Twitter interview with 10 set questions for everyone later the same day

The first blog interview will be updated with the transcript of the Twitter Interview.  The full interviews with both parts will published both here in this blog and on International Business Ideas.  More about this later.

And you can find a list of all of the Cross-Cultural Twitter Interviews here.

This Coming Week’s Cross-Cultural Twitter Interviews

At the time of publishing this, I am still waiting for confirmation of a second interview and will update this soon.

Next Week’s Twitter Interviews: 9th Sept. at 14:00 GMT – @hoeferleconsult Find us & join the conversation with #CKinterview

Last Week’s Cross-Cultural Tweets

Last week there were a wide variety of fun and useful tweets.

Business

1. Interesting: McKinsey, Web 2.0 & the new “consulting landscape” via @olivermarks @jeffdachis @brucenussbaum @finikiotis
2. Interesting Slide Share presentation on company culture – RT @NatasjaP @Lciarlone
3. In case you didn’t know: @TransDomo supports companies in all cross cultural needs for USA-Germany business connections
4. RT @HoeferleConsult American companies have invested more in Germany than in all of Latin America
5. RT @dkiernan International Success for Irish Tech Companies-Event+Workshop-Dublin-Sept 29th
6. Time Mag: Canada gets jobs with its economic recovery.  - RT @tradelawyer

Content Marketing

7. Copywriting Success Summit – for the marketers seeking to fast-track business growth #css09
8. Four Leadership Writers, Four Different Backgrounds – RT @steveroesler
9. Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors – RT @NikkiPilkington @chrisgarrett
10. 10 Ways to Make More Money as a Freelance Writer
11. How Ten of America’s Top Writers Keep the Money Flowing In

Cross-Cultural Blunders

12. A publishing controversy, in Black and White

Cross-Cultural Communication

13. Multicultural Diversity In Child Literacy – Teaching with a multicultural perspective
14. RT @DeborahSwallow What Does A ‘Team’ Mean To You In Your Culture?
15. RT @DeborahSwallow What’s the Meaning of ‘Knowledge’ In Your Culture?
16. Code Switching as an intercultural survival technique – @HoeferleConsult
17. Admitting Uncertainty, Vulnerability Can be Key to Intercultural BizCommunications – RT @BNET @speaktostudents
18. Communicating -Thinking = Not Listening via Content Mgmt Connection – RT @elizabethsosnow @Danielaarens
19. Group Polarization: Encourage multiple perspectives to reduce polarization RT @mgoose12 @CultureMatters
20. Icons For Understanding Eastern and Western Culture

Cross-Cultural Differences

22. The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Switch to Verdana – TIME
23. In today’s Japan, foreigners are “kawaiso (pathetic)” – wonder how widespread this sentiment is
24. The Unwelcome Gift: Marketing and Cross-Cultural Differences. Press release with some interesting insights
25. What we can learn about intercultural communications from graphic designer vs. account side – via @cultureguru
26. RT @ExpMyCulture intercultureNet Obama in Egypt speech said: “The things we have in common have far more potency than our differences”
27. A thoughtful piece on ‘difference’ RT @ExpMyCulture @Diversity_XING @intercultureNet
28. Are you a “local” or a “cosmopolitan”? Excellent piece on working in international cross-cultural teams – RT @etnobofin
29. American Pants vs. British Trousers: The importance of speaking the “same language” – - RT @Lciarlone
30. RT The Multicultural Minute Video #3: In which @ReneeAtShens sails around a Small World & sings along a little
31. Changing our Minds by Reading Fiction: By imagining many possible worlds fiction helps us understand ourselves & others.
32. Tim Ferris – South China travel video: easily the most disgusting to date but starts w/ how Chinese count on their hands

Languages

33. The importance of language and cultural knowledge for international business – RT @rliberni
34. Funny – good illustration of the English sounds versus spelling problem!! #funny – via @rliberni
35. What language to learn? An interesting list and a good discussion via the comments RT @rliberni @pocketcultures
36. RT @MangoLanguages has foreign language telecommute job openings
37. Livemocha: free language learning courses in 25 different languages – via @gbw

Marketing

38. 5 cool websites for multicultural women (and everyone else)
39. ComScore Chart: Maybe Teens Do Like to Tweet #teens – via @williswee
40. A newly released TED Talk: Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset (he created GapMinder) – RT @LouisColumbus

Social Media

41. Defiant – A Book Written Through Social Media
42. RT @hishaman Rajeev of the @MintBlogger Sharing his experience on Famous Bloggers Club
43. Can Twitter Make a Difference? – via @TopSalesExperts
44. RT @ShaneGibson Posted “Social Media for Sales Organizations (Santiago Chile)” Video
45. Forrester predict Social Media Marketing to grow @ 34% annually & reach $3.1 billion by 2014 RT @ifarmer @jasondavey
46. 25 Steps to Success: Search Engine Optimization and Business Blogging – RT @JohnChow @shanegibson
47. How @JustinKownacki calls bullshit on Twitter – RT @jimconnolly @chrisbrogan @t_de_baillon
48. RT @nicolesimon Did you know that you are not allowed to use Facebook for ‘personal gain’? read @lynnterry thoughts
49. How can CEOs use Twitter effectively – 11 minutes video with @shanegibson & @mikedesjardins
50. Does Promotion Work on Twitter? Yes, with @ducttape ’s 3-step shimmy approach

Travel

51. RT @Travelwriticus Adding Copenhagen (the first Danish one) to my list of American cities with European names
52. Cross Cultural Support – An Essential Relocation Tool – RT @allct
53. Interesting photos – Lost Istanbul: 1950s & 60s by Ara Guler via @lensculture @e_yerlikhan @pocketcultures
54. Get road trip ideas for Labor Day weekend @NatGeoTraveler’s Best Drives via @Marilyn_Res @finikiotis
55. Feeling foreign in your own country and liberated in other countries by @pernilleru

Trivia

56. This world map shows water stress for 1961-90 – a bit scary for the future
57. The First Day of School Project – The Global Education Collaborative RT @GlobalEdNing @CateBrubaker
58. New school year puts French on forced marriage alert (Reuters) RT @weirdnews @rliberni
59. How 20 popular websites looked when they launched – Telegraph
60. Some fun facts put down simply – via @bitchnet @SharonL213
61. A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ~I. Calvino – via @DoreenatDMS @finikiotis
62. Japan’s new First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama: ‘I went to Venus in a UFO’

Trust

63. Trust-Building Rules by @finikiotis  - Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
64. Meetings & Trust ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
65. Tom Peters on Trust ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
66. Trust & Social Media ☛ the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge: Build Trust
67. Creating Trust ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
68. In Tweet We Trust? ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
69. Trust & Walter Cronkite by @CharlesHGreen ☛ the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge: Build Trust
70. Test Your Trust Quotient ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
71. Business Friendships ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
72. 10 Steps to Trust ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
73. UK PM on Trust ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
74. Trust Caller ID ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust
75. Who do you trust? ☛ Join the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge to Build Trust

Web Marketing

76. French Maids, Lingerie, and Webinars: Social Media Marketing @imarketman

Tweets About This Blog

Business

1. The Secret To Finding The Right International Marketing Tactics For Your Business
2. What is your secret to finding the right international marketing tactic for your business?
3. Which international marketing tactics does your business use?
4. How do you connect with your international markets?
5. Join me on @bizSugar – The Secret To Finding The Right International Marketing Tactics For Your Business
6. Join me on @FriendFeed – The Secret To Finding The Right International Marketing Tactics For Your Business

Networking

7. @HoeferleConsult Christian, let me introduce you to @dkiernan – Donagh, Christian is German & does something similar to you in the US.

Social Media

8. Join my Facebook fan page to help me get 100 fans & my username… you’ll find I share a ton of useful info there too
9. New Twitter interview series of Cross-Cultural & International people starts tomorrow #CKinterview

Cross-Cultural & International Tweeters

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

@Travelwriticus – in Austria

Last Week’s Twitter Interviews:

- @matthewbennet - @steveroesler - @deborahswallow - @ohh_la_la

The Conversations Continue On:

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