Cindy King's International Business Blog » calendar

Cultural Awareness Calendar – April 2009

Cindy King — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:38 +0000

Culture Pulse – Build Your Cultural Skills Through Awareness

Here is the list of cultural events for the month of April.

April is Multicultural Communications Month

April 2009 Cultural Calendar

2 April 2009

MFHA’s Talent Development Series
Organizers: The Multicultural Foodservice & Hospitality Alliance
Location: Chicago, USA
Telephone: + 1 401-461-6342
www.mfha.net

9 April 2009

Multicultural Marketing Strategies: How Targeting the Right Audience Can Make a Real Difference
Organizers: AMA Houston Multicultural Marketing Special Interest Group
Location: Houston, USA
www.houston.marketingpower2.com/events.html#multicultural

15-17 April 2009

Professional Development for Diversity Practioners: Building Skills and Creating Networks
Organizers: The National MultiCultural Institute (NMCI)
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Telephone: + 1 202-483-0700, ext. 232
www.nmci.org

16 April 2009

Hispanic Marketing Hot Topic Series
Organizers: American Marketing Association
Location: Boston, USA
Telephone: + 1 312-542-9000
www.marketingpower.com/hthispanic

LatinVision Media Business Networking Event
Organizers: LatinVision Inc.
Location: NYC, USA
www.latinvision.com/events

Emerge A Latino Professional Experience
Organizers: Hispanic Magazine
Location: Atlanta, USA
Telephone: + 1 305-774-3549
www.hispaniconline.com

17 April 2009

The 2009 Illinois Diversity Business-To-Business Expo
Organizers: DiversityBizUSA
Location: Chicago, USA
Telephone: + 1 954-364-6260
www.DiversityBIZUSA.com

17-20 April 2009

2009 Women’s Leadership Exchange Conference and Summit
Organizers: Womens Leadership Exchange
Location: Syracuse, NY, USA
Telephone: + 1 212-209-1567
www.womensleadershipexchange.com

19-23 April 2009

Billboard Latin Music Conference
Organizers: Nielsen Business Media
Location: Miami, USA
Telephone: + 1 646-654-4643
www.billboardevents.com

21-22 April 2009

The Women’s Leadership Conference
Organizers: The Conference Board
Location: NYC, USA
Telephone: + 1 212-339-0345
www.conference-board.org

21-23 April 2009

The African American Travel Conference
Organizers: The African American Travel Conference
Location: Milwaukee, USA US
Telephone: 800-628-0993
www.aatconline.com

22 April – 3May 2009

10th Polish Film Festival Los Angeles
Organizers: Polish Film Festival
Location: Hollywood, LA, USA
www.polishfilmla.org

23 April 2009

5th Annual Voz Latina Hispanic Marketing Conference
Organizers: Nielsen Conferences
Location: Miami, USA
Telephone: + 1 646-654-7254
www.marketingtohispanics.com

23-25 April 2009

6th Hispanic Executive Summit
Organizers: National Society of Hispanic MBAs
Location: Atlanta, USA
Telephone: + 1 877-467-4622
www.nshmba.org

26-28 April 2009

9th Annual NABA Fund National Business/Procurement Conference
Organizers: Native American Business Alliance
Location: Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA
Telephone: + 1 248-988-9344
www.nativeamerican-bus.org

27 April 2009

2009 Brazil Summit
Organizers: Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
Location: NYC, USA
Telephone: + 1 212-751-4691
www.brazilcham.com

28 April 2009

DiversityInc Webinar Series: Work/Life
Organizers: DiversityInc
Location: Webinar
Telephone: + 1 973-494-0542
www.diversityinc.com/products/item66.cfm

5th Annual Multicultural Marketing Midwest Conference: Focus on U.S. Emerging African Market
Organizers: Aguilar Productions
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Telephone: + 1 651-665-0633
www.aguilarproductions.com

28-30 April 2009

Chief Diversity Officers Forum
Organizers: The Johnnetta B. Cole Global Diversity & Inclusion Institute
Location: Atlanta, USA
Telephone: + 1 404-525-7350
www.jbcinstitute.org

29-1 May 2009

9th Annual Multicultural Business Conference
Organizers: Diversity Business
Location: Orlando, USA
Telephone: + 1 203-255-8966
www.diversitybusiness.com/conference

29-30 April 2009

The Fifth Annual M2W® -The Marketing to Women Conference
Organizers: M2W®
Location: Chicago, USA
Telephone: + 1 860-724-2649 x 15
www.m2w.biz

30-3 May 2009

3 Festival of Nations
Organizers: Festival of Nations
Location: St. Paul, MN, USA
Telephone: + 1 651-647-0191
www.festivalofnations.com

30-2 May 2009

57th Annual National Marketing Conference – New Marketing Strategies in a Changing Economy
Organizers: National Alliance of Market Developers (NAMD)
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Telephone: + 1 908-561-4062
www.namdntl.org/2009_conference.html

30-5 May 2009

South East European Film Festival
Organizers: Southeast European Film Festival
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Telephone: + 1 323-876-7874
www.seefilmla.org

Sources

The cultural events taking place in the USA are thanks to the 2009 Multicultural Calendar from Multicultural Marketing Resources, Inc., NYC If you have a calender of cultural events, please let me know.

Cultural Awareness Calendar – March 2009

Cindy King — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:00:11 +0000

Culture Pulse – Build Your Cultural Skills Through Awareness

Here is the list of cultural events for the month of March.

Don’t forget to buy candles for Earth Hour on Saturday March 28. It is at 8.30pm, or 20:30 hours, your local time, wherever you are.

March 2009 Cultural Calendar

3-4 March 2009

Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity
Organizers: National Black MBA Association -Twin Cities and Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas
Location: St. Paul, MN, USA
Telephone: + 1 651-962-4385
www.stthomas.edu/mcf

4 March 2009

The AAPD 2009 Leadership Gala
Organizers: The American Association of People With Disabilities
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Telephone: + 1 202-457-0046
www.aapddc.org/Development/2009gala.html

5 March 2009

Mosaic Career Fair 2009
Organizers: American Advertising Federation (AAF)
Location: McLean, VA, USA
US Telephone: 800-999-2231
www.aaf.org/default.asp?id=733

5-15 March 2009

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Organizers: Film Society of Lincoln Center
Location: NYC, USA
Telephone: + 1 212-875-5600
www.filmlinc.com

6 March 2009

International Women’s Day: Retaining Talented Women on a Global Scale
Organizers: Working Mother Media Inc.
Location: WebSeminar
US Telephone: 800-775-7654
www.workingmothermediainc.com

8 March 2009

It’s International Women’s Day

9-11 March 2009

USHCC 19th Annual Legislative Conference
Organizers: The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Telephone: + 1 202-842-1212,
www.ushcclegislative.com

10 March 2009

The Jewish holiday Purim starts today

2009 Annual Multicultural Media for Multicultural America Forum: Filling the Spectrum,
Organizers: Horowitz Associates
Location: NYC, USA
Telephone: + 1 914-834-5999
www.horowitzassociates.com/horowitzevents

11 March 2009

ITB – World’s Leading Travel Trade Show starts today in Berlin

11-24 March 2009

24th Annual NAHP Convention & Business Exposition
Organizers: National Association of Hispanic Publications
Location: McAllen, TX, USA
Telephone: + 1 703 610 0205
www.nahp.org

12 March 2009

International Business Summit 2009
Organizers: International Business Summit
Location: Tampa, USA
Telephone: + 1 813 221 7243
www.ibsummit.org/events.html

13 March 2009

Journée Idemmatic 2009
Organizers: IDEMM
Location: Lille, France
Telephone: + 33 3 20 04 78 53
www.idemmatic.idemmatic.fr

14 March 2009

One Heartbeat: Celebrating Cultural Diversity
Organizers: OneHeartbeat
Location: Atlanta, USA
Telephone: + 1 404-384-7421
www.oneheartbeatatl.com

16 March 2009

Signature Awards Gala
Organizers: National Association of Women Business Owners, NYC Chapter
Location: NYC, USA
Telephone: + 1 212-252-1100
www.nawbonyc.org

16-18 March 2009

The Summit on Leading Diversity
Organizers: Linkage
Location: Atlanta, USA
Telephone: + 1 781-402-5555
www.linkageinc.com/div

17 March 2009

Happy St Patrick’s Day to all the Irish out there

21 March 2009

It’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

21-22 March 2009

The 16th Original GLBT Expo
Organizers: The RDP Group
Location: NYC, USA
US Telephone: 800-243-9774
www.originalglbtexpo.com

22 March 2009

It’s World Water Day

23 March 2009

13th Annual Rosoff Awards
Organizers: The Ad Club
Location: Boston, USA
Telephone: + 1 617- 262-1100
www.adclub.org

24 March 2009

DiversityInc Webinar Series: Retention
Organizers: DiversityInc
Location: Webinar
Telephone: + 1 973-494-0542
www.diversityinc.com/products/item66.cfm

25-27 March 2009

6th Annual Black Executive Supply Management Summit
Organizers: Institute for Supply Management
Location: Orlando, USA
US Telephone: 800-888-6276
www.ism.ws

26 March 2009

The 60th Annual Advertising Hall of Fame
Organizers: American Advertising Federation (AAF)
Location: NYC, USA
US Telephone: 800-999-2231
www.advertisinghalloffame.org

28 March 2009

20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
Organizers: Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Location: NYC, USA
Telephone: + 1 212-219-0111
www.glaad.org/events/in

29 March 2009

Earth Hour 2009
Location: 931 cities and towns in 80 countries
Twitter: @earthhour
www.earthhour.org

30-31 March 2009

Marketing 2.0 Conference – The Power of Social Media
Organizers: ESCP-EAP University
Location: Paris, France
www.marketing2conference.com

Sources

The cultural events taking place in the USA are thanks to the 2009 Multicultural Calendar from Multicultural Marketing Resources, Inc., NYC

If you have a calender of cultural events, please let me know.

Read more Cross-Cultural Glimpses Of Society:
- Cultural Awareness Calendar – January 2009
- Cultural Awareness Calendar – February 2009

Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 3 of 2009

Cindy King — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:22:12 +0000

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.

Find this weeks fun & useful links, & many others, in the right sidebar, in yellow towards the bottom.

Useful Resource Pages

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:

A place for everyone to learn more about export
I used to work in the music industry & always note when this event is happening – MIDEM-World Music Market, Cannes, France
Ethnic marketing. Re-tweet @womensuite – 2008 a great year for women of color: spending power increased to $1 trillion & now 30% of US women. HUGE market!
Re-tweet @womensuite - Multicultural makeover, anyone? Here are 6 tips to help your women’s group
Re-tweet @VincentWright - Talking About “Twitter List Maintenance – Social Media Marketing Mastermind“
It’s World Religion Day – celebrated in 80 countries
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy – Bill Cosby
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one – Henry Ford
Have to remember this one @finikiotis - There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in – Leonard Cohen
Re-tweet @finikiotis – Emerging markets paving the way. Mobile banking to exceed 150M users by 2011
Check out this Design Your International Visibility business guide on Get International Clients
The best path to international business development is by small consistent steps
@elevatedsky @DR4WARD – Use Google Translate to read foreign language info online? look at @BastianVPA ‘s ImportBlog
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for… “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down – M. Pickford
A good resource for cross-cultural communication
New US marketing agency targeting Muslims in America
Re-tweet @AmandaMoss – Chinese Cross-cultural understanding . The Chinese language has no real equivalent for “yes ” quickly.
What kind of international marketing are you doing online?
Get a cultural experience, volunteer abroad
Start your international business with selling one product to one country
A Chart Chooser - this just what I need for current project
Example of new long-tail search analytics visual tool – very cool
Re-tweet @beverlycornell – Looking to fill some spots on my global biz podcast – know any top level dynamic international biz folks?
Me too! Re-tweet @alanweinkrantz – I’m starting to see Twitter as being a great replacement for local Chambers of Commerce if you work it right.
Re-tweet @copyblogger – My favorite scene from “Lost in Translation”
Re-tweet @ducttape – Will Start-Ups Continue To Fuel U.S. Job Growth?
Why Text Remains King of the Web
@finikiotis – Did you see this? Re-tweet @Mike_Stelzner – Pic of people exiting floating plane in Hudson from @jkrums
Easy to follow instructions too! Re-tweet @chrisgarrett - How to Identify Your Best Customers Using Excel
How are you trying to make international sales?
Interesting: German food industry, agriculture & horticulture exhibition is called International Green Week Berlin
Global user gap
Websites go black in China
Check out this Cross-Cultural Communication business guide on Get International Clients
@LouisColumbus – Do you have Nitish Singh’s The Culturally Customized Website? Waiting for his new book
@LouisColumbus – Great place to start. How is your class doing with this? Easy? Anyone have the iPhone cultural dimension tool?
@davestei – Good point: allowing for more time to communicate with others not like us, including cross-generational sales
A good read for people in international biz. Re-tweet @PhillipTusing – Results of Servcorp survey on international business etiquette index
Re-tweet @mstar2008 – Geert Hofstede’s cross-cultural psychology provide the maps of reality that social scientists need to explore humanity.
An interesting article on current challenge. Re-tweet @abcnewsCanberra – Cultural differences isolating elderly Canberrans
@DR4WARD – Have you seen this competition to Tweet and win some fun prizes “YOUR worst business mistake of 2008.”
Interesting results of an Australian survey. Re-tweet @finikiotis – Workplace manners–an international perspective
@khalidh – My worst business mistake of 2008 = waiting 4 months before starting Twitter because I thought it was a waste of my time #worst08
International marketing is proactive
Why do you think you need international market research?
Branding and Building an International Business
A Comparison of Words in Different Cultures
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit – Andrew Carnegie
Re-tweet @tea_isme – “Social Media Marketing Madness“ [cartoon] AWESOME and TRUE. Any block could be me. LOL
Schedule more active listening time in cross-cultural sales
How are you developing your cross-cultural communication skills?
Re-tweet @stevethornton @perrybelcher – 2009 Social Media Predictions & Social Media Marketing
Re-tweet @askJayson hmmm – Code reading? and linguistic tricks, controversial for social media marketing, your thoughts?
Re-tweet @TheFrenchy @DR4WARD – Interviewing Americans on their international knowledge! Caricatural but true and funny
A funny video on communication & pronunciation problems of an Italian in Malta. Re-tweet @TheFrenchy
So many do not understand host-country requirements, or come up with a campaign that is universal. @jackyan – That is a great way to say it! I’ve simply been re-hashing the 7 steps from domestic to global sales
What is your biggest problem with international marketing?
Coming from the Bahamas I know people with similar jobs. Re-tweet @Travelwriticus – Thinking about applying for this job
@Travelwriticus – Are you sure they won’t confuse Austria with someplace else? Happened all the time I lived in Switzerland (Sweden)
Re-tweet @Travelwriticus – New Poll, only for USA residents please: How did you hear about Austria the first time?
@DR4WARD – Looks like you are having fun there – a nice job – getting young people interested in int’l marketing today.
Amazing just how much work actually is involved too! Re-tweet @Barry_at_IMPACT – …amazing # of companies can’t describe their own culture.
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets – Alvin Toffler
On Twitter right now? Say hello & where you are to @DR4WARD ‘s International Marketing class
What do you need to develop your business internationally?
International sales can provide a buffer to compensate unexpected losses in sales in your domestic markets
In the Orthodox religion it’s the Old New Year
Starting to develop your international business? Don’t forget to hone your cross-cultural skills at the same time
Yes, well said. Re-tweet @kwg4now – Social Media Marketing is like a particle accelerator; the return is in the impact.
Re-tweet @verkoren - 7 Reasons Your Social Media Marketing Failed (and how to fix it!)
Re-tweet @wgaultier - There are 50 million bloggers in China
A Cultural Generalization Out of Context
Re-tweet @RobertRogersLaw – Overview article on doing international business
A Culture GPS using Geert Hulsfof’s behavior scales – new mood ring?
A Communication Disconnect Between Two Cultures
An Example of Cultural Differences in Behavior
@edrivis – Indeed! @Mike_Stelzner shared my Tweet Plan story here, on New Year’s eve
Marketing Tactics For Different Countries
Re-tweet @chrisgarrett – Are you ready for social media?
Want to learn more about Social Media Marketing? Take the survey and get a free copy of the results
UK internet service providers must keep a copy of all emails sent in the UK
In Japan it’s Coming of Age Day – to celebrate the passage into adulthood
Representing global heritage. Re-tweet @ruxandraale @worldresources – Vote now for the official New 7 Wonders of nature
A Third Culture Kid answers the question: Where are you from?
Re-tweet @tckid – Cross Cultural People – by Ruth Van Reken

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.

Cultural Awareness Calendar – January 2009

Cindy King — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:00:55 +0000

Culture Pulse – Build Your Cultural Skills Through Awareness

Empathy towards different cultures is a vital part of all cross-cultural communication.

Some people think that empathy means that you need to like people of different cultures. And this poses a problem, because you do not have much control over who you like, do you?

But this is not quite exact. Here is an oversimplified definition of empathy…

Empathy = Understanding

And you can then say…

Understanding = Knowledge

Empathy requires an intimate understanding of different cultures. And when you have an intimate understanding of people your resistance to liking them usually disappears.

It is much easier to build knowledge than it is to start liking someone who seems so different and who you do not understand.

There are quite a few starting places to build your understanding of different cultures.

One of the very first things you can do from an international business perspective is to know the different cultural events and national holidays.

This year I will be tweeting as many cultural dates, events, milestones as I find… with a monthly listing here on the first weekend of every month.

I was going to exclude all religious events, simply because this is not a discussion I want to start here. This blog is focused on cross-cultural skills for international business.

But you do need to be aware of different religious holidays when doing business in these countries. And these events have a place here, strictly for this reason.

If I have missed any events, please let me know in the comment section below.

January 2009 Cultural

5 January 2009

Mungday – on the Discordian calendar
Twelfth Night – Christian

6 January 2009

Epiphany – Christian
Christmas- Armenian Church

7 January 2009

Christmas – Coptic Church
Christmas – Orthodox Christian
Ashura – Islam

10 January 2009

Sydney Festival

12 January 2009

Coming of Age Day – Japan

13 January 2009

12th Annual Rainbow Push Wall Street Project Economic Summit
Organizers: Rainbow/PUSH
Location: New York City
Telephone: +1 212-425-7874
www.rainbowpush.org

13th Annual Urban Wheel Awards
Organizers: On Wheels, Inc.
Location: Detroit
Telephone: +1 313-963-2209,
www.urbanwheelawards.com

14 January 2009

Old New Year - Orthodox

14-29 January 2009

18th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival
Organizers: Film Society of Lincoln
Location: New York City
Telephone: +1 212-423-3337
www.filmlinc.com

18 January 2009

World Religion Day – 80 countries

19 January 2009

Martin Luther King Day – US
Epiphany – Coptic Orthodox

20 January 2009

Inaugural Day – US

25 January 2009

My birthday – Look up your birth date
Burns Night – Scotland

26 January 2009

Australia Day
Chinese New Year
Vietnamese New Year

27 January 2009

DiversityInc Webinar Series: Talent Development
Organizers: DiversityInc,
Location: Online Webinar
Telephone: +1 973-494-0542
www.diversityinc.com/products/item66.cfm

28 January – 1 February 2009

Transmediale.09
Location: House of World Cultures, Berlin
www.transmediale.de

31 January 2009

National Day – Nauru
Vasant Panchami – Hindu
110th Golden Dragon Parade and Festival
Organizers: KSCI-TV and Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles Chinatown
Telephone: +1 213-617-0396
www.lachinesechamber.org/calendar.html

Sources

The cultural events taking place in the USA are thanks to the 2009 Multicultural Calendar from Multicultural Marketing Resources, Inc., NYC

If you have a calender of cultural events, please let me know.