Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 8 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

An interest in international and cultural events, news and general information can help you improve:

• Your international skills, capacity for empathy, and knowledge of different cultures.

You can find the links to the previous Tweet posts below.

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. Check out this Building Trust With International Clients business guide on Get International Clients
2. It’s National Day in Serbia
3. Are you selling the same products or different products to your international clients?
4. Take the time to learn how to adapt your business and your product to another country
5. Cross-cultural branding with Gregory Moulinet, a French guy now in Japan
6. Have you adapted your web marketing for a multicultural audience?
7. It’s the President’s Day in the US today
8. A language map for the United States
9. Disney movie to feature 1st black princess
10. It’s Independence Day in Lithuania
11. The Future Looks White Bright
12. Japanese guys must LOVE Valentine’s Day
13. Disney and Barbie for Shanghai
14. Globalizing Americana Part 1 – Parts 2 – 5 also online
15. The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell. – Jay Abraham
16. RT @dwightcook – Chinese blogger stabbed after public reading – Bloggers, watch yourself.
17. International business is about getting to know why your international clients buy your product
18. Check out this International Web Visibility business guide on Get International Clients
19. How to not taking things personally – 8 simple steps
20. The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners – Dave Evans
21. To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world… Tony Robbins
22. RT @TWBCanada – Vienna Conference on Intercultural Dialogue (Complete Documentation)
23. RT @jeanneleez – My Life as a Third Culture Kid Without Leaving the States
24. It’s Independence Day in Kosovo
25. The United Nations Cyber School Bus for data by country
26. Brainstorming questions to plan your international sales road map- free for subscribers
27. Segment your country-specific communication and marketing materials, even if it is in English
28. Different culture winners of the Thinkquest competition
29. Check out this SlideShare Presentation : Web Content Strategy – How to Plan for, Create and Publish Online Content for Maximum ROI
30. Are cross-cultural communication skills personal skills?
31. Stimulate Profound Learning Outcomes on Synthesis, voted Time’s Best Blog 2009
32. It’s National Day in Gambia
33. Movies To Work Thru Personal Barriers – series on how movies can help you improve your cross-cultural communication
34. How did you set up your country-specific website for your international business development?
35. Trust is the most frequent barrier between different cultures.
36. RT @philippahammond @serenadorey – 5 things about marketing translation – for translators
37. RT @Travelwriticus – Pic of the summer house of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar (Germany)
38. Retailers Chasing Hispanic Women
39. Work Those Taste Buds With a Little Orange Advertising – How Color Theory Can Make Your Marketing More Effective
40. More Segmentation = More International Sales
41. Likability For International and Social Media Communication
42. A Different English For Your International Audience
43. The Rise of the Minority and Better Cross-Cultural Understanding
44. What Are Your Words Saying to Your International Market?
45. How an Open Mindset Increases Confidence
46. Different Cultures Do Things Differently
47. Next 2 hours on the next White Paper Summit – 7 Steps to Getting Great White Paper Clients with Steve Slaunwhite
48. 2nd session tonight at the White Paper Summit: Ensuring Your Papers Appeal to Business Executives with Jonathan Kantor #WPSS09
49. RT @kanter – Wow, the metrics on Twestival in slideshare .. this is like eating chocolate
50. The biggest benefit of good cross-cultural communication skills is increased trust.
51. RT @RasoirJ – Good reads on #Multicultural Lit in new issue of eJournal USA
52. RT @DoreenatDMS @IMWright – Interesting blog on multicultural marketing
53. Just published a twitter mosaic – Get yours here
54. @rjleaman @PetLvr @chrisgarrett @guioconnor @siyab @lighthousenews – Your photos came up on my twitter mosaic
55. How well do you know your best international markets?
56. RT @chrisgarrett – Great presentation on web graphic optimization by Gui { and a cute furry friend }
57. How to Integrate your Twitter signature on your WordPress blog with Twitsig
58. @Akostic @Adhe @angepb @Gautier_Girard – c’est avec plaisir que je vois qqs francais sur mon twitter mosaic
59. RT @StephanieTilton – B2B Tech Buyers Like Social Media from Forrester Research  { Good slides – Listening to the audio }
60. Journal of Intercultural Studies
61. RT @melyt @IMWright – Check out www.ThinkMulticultural.com insight into marketing to the multicultural population
62. Where do you go to get your international market research?
63. International marketing needs to give more feedback and be geared for more flexibility
64. RT @vijaysankaran – Social-media marketing isn’t cheap &easy: Businessweek Story
65. @Jonathan_Kantor – Thank you for all the links to White Papers! Also, love following your tweets – always insightful & useful!
66. Want to improve your international client relationships? Work on your cross-cultural communication
67. RT @Jonathan_Kantor @tabsharani @GOK8 – Twitter White Paper, giving voice to your Brand, excellent if new to Twitter
68. It takes long term commitment to develop international sales.
69. What is your biggest challenge to developing an international business?
70. Case of the ‘killer elevator’
71. An accurate description of the cultural differences in advertising & TV commercials in France RT @finikiotis
72. Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture – Arthur Koestler
73. RT @finikiotis – “Globalization in retreat“: The economic impact of the global recession around the world.
74. How do you compare international marketing with your standard marketing practices?
75. @beverlycornell – I see people wondering why their int’l marketing does not work – but they don’t really have the marketing basics down
76. It’s International Mother Language Day – linguistic & cultural diversity & multilingualism
77. Are you customizing your communication for different cultures?
78. RT @jacktrix – 8 Humiliating Japanese Ads Starring Oscar Nominees
79. Liked this list from Digital Inspiration – Best of the Web: Our Favorite Blogs and Web Sites
80. More on International Mother Language Day

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, so 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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