Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 5 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. @wearesocialFR – Je vient de réserver 2 billets pour le Twestival le 12 février
2. An online international lead generation strategy can increase your international sales
3. Retweet @abcnewsACT – The 2009 National Multicultural Festival has been officially launched in Canberra
   
4. Random games with words
5. Stereotypes whither when human contacts flourish – Queen Elizabeth II
6. Need to improve your international business? Evaluate your cross-cultural communication skills.
   
7. A cool tool to see if your user name is still available on almost 70 social media sites
8. Retweet @stanleyyork – Colors In Corporate Branding And Design
9. Retweet @stanleyyork – The 22 Step Social Media Marketing Plan
10. Plan your international marketing tactics for extra flexibility to respond to different cultural needs
11. Some Things Need To Change by Michael Arrington
12. Tweetpole – For people interested in following celebrity (& French VIP) news on Twitter
13. @myriam – Did you know that websites on black backgrounds are the popular ones in China? I like the switch to white option
14. Get a word or a French expression from the recent economic news and it’s English translation 3 times/week via SMS
15. What sort of international market research do you carry out?
16. Interested in improving your French through tweets? Follow @speedenglish This is a French community manager having fun on Twitter
17. Retweet @finikiotis – Broadening leaders’ minds & cultural sensitivity makes better leaders in our changing world
18. Twestival - Tweet. Meet. Give. – 12 February 2009
    
19. Look for popular web searches around the world
20. Where do you think you will get most of your international sales from this year?
21. The first step in improving your personal cross-cultural communication skills is to ask questions and get curious
    
22. Cultural Perception of the Use of Information
    
23. International Customer Experience
    
24. International Perceptions of President Obama’s Inauguration News Coverage
    
25. Marketing Maturity at Different Stages
26. Check out this Multicultural Marketing business guide on Get International Clients
27. Make the time and effort to understand how you need to sell to different cultures
    
28. Import From China With Confidence
29. Where is your international business development coming from?
30. Retweet @mobbie @deliciousmedia @DanCall – Loving these cross-cultural marketing blunders
31. World Sourcing For Lenovo, the Hub now is India – building a multicultural marketing communications team
    
32. 101 intercultural insights from Thiagi
    
33. A selection of intercultural tips
34. I like this one Retweet @LanceScoular – The sun always shines. It’s just that clouds sometimes get in the way. Lance Scoular
35. Retweet @LanceScoular – Why Export? Exporting enables you to diversify your portfolio, to weather changes in the domestic recession. Affecting you?
36. Retweet @debbiemahler – Microsoft Study Finds Consumers Want Control Over Data
37. @CindyKing is ranked 32975 on retweetrank – Where do you rank?
38. @davemammen – I also meet companies that worry about this so much in the beginning it becomes procrastination
39. Transmediale.09 – international art and digital culture, starts in Berlin – thru 1 Feb
40. When do companies first think about needing cross-cultural communication skills
41. Retweet @finikiotis – Forrester predicts by end of 2009: more than 85% of US online consumers reading or interacting with social content
42. Geohive – Geopolitical data on population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities
43. Retweet @JGTornoe – Cisneros: Nation’s future linked to Latino success
44. Fun video. Retweet @DR4WARD @rdfrench @AmandaMooney – 50 years of marketing in 3 minutes
45. Retweet @chrisgarrett – I’m trying to raise money for the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, please donate here
46. Keep your international development plan flexible to adapt as you learn more about your new foreign markets
47. Customer Centricity – the 4 C’s
48. Retweet @leplan – Thailand bans The Economist magazine
    
49. 300+ Cases & Examples of Social Media Marketing
    
50. Get country-specific information
51. Thanks for Re-tweeting! @ConnectionCons – Get International Clients wrote about TheBrazilBusiness.com!
52. Examine what is said, not who speaks – Arabian Proverb
    
53. International Exposure to Develop Cross-Cultural Skills
    
54. Cultural Differences Selling Eggs
55. This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want – John Ilhan
56. @finikiotis – I have The Global English Style Guide by John R. Kohl.  This is more for writing before translations, but similar stuff.
57. Brainstorming questions to improve your international visibility – free for subscribers
58. I confess, I speak Globlish @finikiotis – Did you see this BBC piece about the French & “English language supremacy”?
59. You can start your international business development as an exporter, with an international sales agent or start with one country
60. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed – William James
61. Good article from @chrisgarrett Retweet @JDEbberly – Social Media Marketing Roundup
62. It’s Australia Day + Chinese New Year  + Republic Day in India + Liberation Day in Uganda + Vietnamese New Year
63. What Wikipedia says on cross-cultural communication
64. Do you think online international marketing will get you more international sales?
65. Retweet @DoreenatDMS – Adventures in Growing up Multilingual
66. A list of international exchange programs by country
67. @shaunjamison – It is also interesting to look at how other cultures use mandalas.
68. International business development starts with getting to know one market in one country

Find more tips and links on Twitter here

• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 22 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 21 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 20 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 19 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 18 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 17 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 16 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 15 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 14 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 13 of 2009
• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 12 of 2009
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• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 10 of 2009
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• Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 8 of 2009
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• 301 Twitter Culture Tips & International Links

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