Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 4 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.

And also why I share my tweets here too.

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

Here is the selection of my best cross-culture tweets and international links from last week:

1. I suggested this technique for a divorced friend’s kids Re -tweet @psitutor – Creative learning with mandalas
2. Have you noticed a trend in international sales in your company?
3. Re -tweet @AuntieStress – Language is relative. Check out Nunavut Living Dictionary. 29 pages for “snow”
4. Been having fun with my photo this morning, thanks to @uglydoggy – Check out this Obamicon
5. 3 dimensional exploration- Picasso’s Guernica
6. It’s Burns Night in Scotland – poet, balladeer and for many, Scotland’s favorite son
7. Today is my birthday and here are more interesting facts about January 25th
   
8. International marketing is more than just putting up a website
9. Do you think international market research is important before you create an international website?
10. Never, never, never, never give up – Winston Churchill
11. Re -tweet @DR4WARD @upicks – Top 15 Countries by Internet Population – China is in front of USA. India has only 32.1M users
12. Learn about your international markets to adapt your sales strategy and tactics for better sales
13. Colliding Continents – some interesting videos from around the world
14. Re -tweet @beverlycornell – Podcast 47 – Cindy King on Cross-Cultural Communication and Internationalization of Websites
15. She was wise Re -tweet @ericcrosby – Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt
16. Re -tweet @RanaSinha – Thinks of he bus driver who refused to drive!
17. Use this new Twitter Tool to search keywords in anyone’s list of followers
18. Easy marketing Re -tweet @avfguy @Scobleizer @tkpleslie @dacort – Newest tool allows to search FOLLOWERS by keyword
19. Re -tweet @jim_turner – Is the NYTimes afraid of or threatened by Social Media?
20. How To Use Social Media To Grow Your Business
21. 40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them
22. Re -tweet @Matt4042 – Video tours help Realtors with international marketing
23. Do you think this is for International communities too? Re -tweet @elliottng @shelisrael – Concept of Lethal Generosity is AWESOME
24. What are you doing to develop your cross-cultural communication skills?
25. What would you like to change in your international marketing?
26. Are The Terms ‘Urban’ & ‘Multicultural’ Dead?
27. No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive – Mahatma Gandhi
28. Re -tweet @jennysimpson – Multicultural communication dangers for PRs
29. What’s the best business decision you made in 2008? #best08
30. Colors in Your Website Design
31. A diverse first family – map & photos
32. Best Obama Day coverage I’ve seen so far Re -tweet @avfguy – Wanna see what 2 million people look like from space?
33. American bilingual job board
34. What is stopping you from developing your business internationally?
35. The better your country-specific marketing, the better sales results you get
36. Re -tweet @pamelarutledge – Cisco ad “Just For Fun” with kids staring each other down my dream for cross-cultural communication
37. Brian Tracy on iLearningGlobal TV – will try to check back to see where this goes
38. Want more international sales? Add cross-cultural communication into your marketing and sales tactics.
39. Plan your international marketing tactics for accountability and viability measurements from the start
40. Some good questions. Re -tweet @avfguy – How safe is multicultural marketing?
41. Do you incorporate feedback from your international clients into your international market research?
42. Find out how to globalize your business website
43. 2 useful new tools for international business. Re -tweet @postsgoogle – Google Translate – a soft revolution in intercultural dialogue
44. @keyinfluencer ‘s wife’s response to the FedEx Twitter situation
45. Do you think international sales will significantly impact your business?
46. Re -tweet @jazzgumpy @fontwerk – If you’re interested in inter-cultural understanding
47. German quirks from an American perspective
48. Good cross-cultural communication skills get you better results in international business
49. Re -tweet @MichelleHess – “What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”~Emerson
50. The tarsier has eyes as big as its brain Re -tweet @ShayneT – What Does a Community Manager Look Like?
51. Re -tweet @techupdates – International sales rescue Apple from US retail slump – Apple Insider
    
52. @misterkevin – Coming from the Bahamas it never entered my mind to think Obama was multicultural – not sure I think he is. 1st heard it here
53. Obama speech censored in China
54. A gem! Thanks for sharing! Re -tweet @finikiotis – Clayton Christensen video on curiosity
55. How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months – Tim Ferriss
56. Multicultural couples in Europe on Europocket TV
57. Re -tweet @soultravelers3 Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. Mark Twain
58. Re -tweet @soultravelers3 Is Obama America’s 1st black president or 1st biracial, multicultural president? I think the later is more accurate
59. Obama Day for family in Spain
60. Re -tweet @jlcommunication @writerdiehl – For any Boomers lost in social media
61. Different cultures respond different emotional sales buttons
62. What are you doing to develop your business internationally?
63. @jackyan Writing a blog post on cultural perception of Obama’s speech in different countries – any comments your end?
64. Re -tweet @beverlycornell – How does the retraction in the international marketplace effect your decisions to go global?
65. Re -tweet @BrilliantTrips – Barack Obama’s Cross Cultural Understanding
66. Re -tweet @DonHutsonLive – 3 types of sales opportunities: Obvious, Spontaneous and Visionary. Learn how to prepare for and recognize opportunity
67. For information on doing & finding business in Brazil
68. Does anyone know of any other groups like this? Re -tweet @PDXINTL – Portland small biz owners interested in international business and marketing.
69. Does your company need better cross-cultural communication skills today?
70. Bad Usability Calendar = great example of fun international marketing from Norway
71. Use your marketing to stimulate feedback from international markets and learn more about them
72. Re -tweet @chrisgarrett – Do you search on your mobile? I do very rarely because it is annoying on n95, expect iPhone more usable
73. Do you have an on-going international market research strategy?
74. Multichannel Retail Meets Multicultural Communication
75. Re -tweet @JGTornoe – DMA Premieres First-of-its-Kind ‘Hispanic Direct Marketing – Techniques & Best Practices’ Report
76. Just starting a business? Use the SME Toolkit
77. Understanding Empathy in Customer Service
78. Re -tweet @Malta – MaltaMedia.com – National Forum on Intercultural Dialogue
    
79. @guioconnor @codepo8 Thank you for Tweet Effect – Everyone else have a look at this new tool to see how your tweets are doing
80. Re -tweet @jackyan – The world just might have caught up with us online in thinking that it’s one big place.
81. Why do you think you need international sales today?
82. True? Re -tweet @nonlinear – In most multicultural pics the white male is either in forefront or at the center, white female & black male below him.
83. US-Singapore comparison. Re -tweet @Hectorrrr – Thesis on cross-cultural studies in creativity received an award
84. Living the life of a hermit? – today is Inaugural Day in the US
85. Re -tweet @WillyLim – Come join us in discussing Social Media Marketing in Singapore and Malaysia on Facebook
86. Me too! Re -tweet @DerekShowerman – I love this post from @rhappe, well said – The Big Secret to Social Media Marketing?
87. Ireland nationalizes bank
88. Cost of living comparison information for 276 foreign international global cities
89. Re -tweet @RobertRogersLaw – International cost of living comparisons?
90. Re -tweet @valion – G11nRapporteur post – “When is it time to localize?”
91. Thank you for sharing! Re -tweet @valion – Interesting read on multicultural marketing and the US retail point of view
92. It requires personal effort, commitment, time and practice to develop good cross-cultural communication skills
93. Check out this Build Your International Marketing business guide on Get International Clients
94. Twitter Not Loved In Europe
95. Very interesting read! Thanks! Re -tweet @finikiotis @brooksbayne – European firms “not liking” Twitter
    
96. Different countries and cultures respond to different marketing and sales strategies
97. Are you using culture customized web marketing to develop your international business?
98. 42 Free Social Media Marketing ebooks
99. The Best International Business Schools
100. Today the Coptic Orthodox celebrate Epiphany
101. It’s Martin Luther King Day in the US
102. Who needs better cross-cultural communication?
103. Interesting thought! Re -tweet @hakan_folkesson – I wish they could move Israel to Wisconsin or something. There will never be peace in that area
104. Anyone want to connect with someone in Prague? Re -tweet @PragueBob – Is anyone planning a work-related trip to Prague in the next couple of months?
105. Re -tweet @AshD – Interactive historical time line on Israel/Hamas
106. Re -tweet @billsinunu – Global peace comes through cross-cultural education and understanding. Take the Cultural IQ Test!
107. For international business too. Re -tweet @glcuccureddu – 56 reasons why most corporate innovation initiatives fail – heart of innovation
108. Re -tweet @glcuccureddu – 10 innovation experts to whom you should be listening – Innovation Tools
109. American Express Adopts Social Media with the Open Forum
110. Your international business success depends on your international market research and market intelligence
111. Re -tweet @karla_porter @RebeccaPR – How NOT to build your twitter community… I really like this EVERYONE needs to read it!
112. Newspapers that use Twitter
113. Brainstorming questions to develop your international business- free for subscribers
114. Twittericans Puerto Ricans
115. Twitter in Biz – Twitter means business
116. Are Asian businesses using Twitter?
117. Finnish Companies Using Twitter

Did you find this interesting? Then follow me on Twitter and participate there! 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.

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