Culture Tips & International Links

As usual, the tweets below are based on my core Tweet Plan which includes:

• 5 daily tweets on cross-cultural marketing for international sales
• All of the other interesting links and retweets I run across during the week

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There were less tweets this last week.  More to come soon.  The list below is the in order tweeted.

I was out of my office most of the week sightseeing and enjoying Paris with two other couples.  It is always great to see Paris with fresh eyes every once in a while.  After a few years it is easy to take your surroundings for granted no matter where you live and I rarely take the time to appreciate Paris even when it is only a short drive from home.  It was a very enjoyable break away from work and I also met some great people.

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

1. The United Nations Cyber School Bus for data by country
2. Great brainstorming questions to plan your international sales road map- free for subscribers
3. Have a look at what others are doing with mobile phones
4. To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world… Tony Robbins
5. How did you set up your country- specific website for your international business development?
6. Lack of trust is the most frequent barrier between different cultures.
7. Great brainstorming questions to improve your international marketing – free for subscribers
8. How easy or difficult was it for you to develop your cross- cultural communication skills?
9. RT @rdelangel @latinaprpro @SevFletcher – Will Recession Put Multicultural & General Market PR on a Level Playing Field?
10. RT @weirdchina – Cross Cultural Business Communication with @lonniehodge & @deswalsh at 4PM on BlogTalkRadio
11. How are you developing your best international markets?
12. International Marketing Review #48
13. Journal of Intercultural Studies
14. Cross-Cultural Issues in Teams – Pete Pereira, Aspire Consulting : First part in a 4-week series – via @jsadiq
15. Where is your favorite place to start international market research?
16. International marketing needs to give you more feedback and has to be geared for more flexibility
17. The best result good cross-cultural communication gives you is trust in what you say.
18. It takes long term commitment and consistent actions over time to develop international sales.
19. What is your biggest challenge to develop your international business?
20. International Sales Best Practice – Make Them Laugh
21. Two half- truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture – Arthur Koestler
22. Segment your country- specific communication and marketing materials, even if it is in English
23. How do you compare international marketing with your standard marketing practices?
24. Want to improve your international client relationships? Work on your cross- cultural communication
25. Allow extra time for feedback from field sales before developing your international sales strategy
26. International Sales Best Practice – Use Creativity
27. We listened to what our customers wanted and acted on what they said. Good things happen when you pay attention – John F. Smith
28. How does marketing segmentation improve your international sales?
29. International Sales Best Practice – Reduce Risk
30. International Sales Best Practice – Use Testimonials Right
31. International marketing can help you uncover business opportunities
32. How are you customizing your communication for different cultures?
33. I shut my eyes in order to see. – Paul Gaugin (via @chrisguillebeau @ryanselow et al)
34. @Syerah You’re welcome. MyBindi seems like a dynamic cultural online community… and fun! Wonder if there are others.
35. What process do you use to measure your international sales leads?
36. A good entry strategy is key to your international business development
37. International Sales Best Practice – Pay Attention
38. Want to read up on culture? Intercultural Press
39. How are you using marketing segmentation to bring in international sales?
40. How to use International English Content to Get International Clients
41. International Sales Best Practice – Maintain Your Position
42. Remember, you only have to succeed the last time – Brian Tracy
43. I’m attending Social Media Success Summit 2009, the premier social media marketing event #smss09
44. An international business is more than having a few international clients who come to you to buy your products
45. Soccer is gateway to American culture for high-schoolers – the story of a Bosnian immigrant from Germany
46. The NYTimes Week in Culture Pictures - a slide show of photographs of culture events
47. US State of Michigan sells more produce to international markets after a strategic international development strategy
48. How the Han Chinese economy is the Uyghur’s direct path to globalization
49. From small farm in the US to international exporter – and how to take advantage of lower US$ exchange rates
50. Amazon’s international sales for 1st quarter up 15%, would have been 28 percent if not for unfavorable exchange rates
51. RT @beverlycornell What do you think makes a biz truly global? Location? Outsourcing? Mindset? Working on some research need your input!
52. World Malaria Day: Tweet to Beat Malaria! - via @mdouble
53. The Twitter Impact (Wired) & how @aplusk challenged CNN to reach a million followers first – via @Mike_Stelzner
54. Take the NY Times Twitter Recipe Challenge… yes, in 140 characters!  – via @Mike_Stelzner
55. Facebook manners – Really funny video with the Electric Friendship Generator! – via @Mike_Stelzner
56. RT @deanmeistr @webupd8 – Enhance Facebook Design with Facebook Fixer – Dean: So, Facebook now becomes MySpace!!
57. Backtweets, search for links on Twitter  – via @jansegers
58. Free educational material explained by the Open University – via @jansegers
59. Belgian rabbits are this year about one and a half to 2 month late in procreating. #climatechange – via @jansegers
60. RT @weskriesel @HildyGottlieb If we fail to uphold our values when the going gets tough, they aren’t values – they’re hobbies – Jon Stewart
61. RT @kimwayans @Devas_T @brownbookshelf – Color up: suggest multicultural teen summer reads #kidlit
62. @lyceum How did you survive the Earth Day? – unfortunately I zapped it! Too busy outside!
63. Me too! RT @lyceum I’m attending GrowSmartBusiness free Webinar – on April 30Cindy King › Edit Post — WordPress
64. The way to succeed is to double your error rate. – Thomas J. Watson – via @SmallBizMarketr
65. 12 April 2008 for me RT @jjude I joined twitter on 1 February 2008

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Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 17 of 2009

Culture Tips & International Links

The tweets below are based on my core Tweet Plan which includes:

• 5 daily tweets on cross-cultural marketing for international sales
• All of the other interesting links and retweets I run across during the week

Many of the useful links in these tweets become part of the Useful Resource Pages which you can find in the sidebar on the right.

Some of these Useful Resource Pages are really fun to make.  They go beyond simple lists of resources and are becoming more motivational.  They can even inspire ideas.  Of course, these Useful Resource Pages are still a work in progress, but I hope you have just as much fun browsing through them and watching them grow over the weeks as I have in watching them come to life.

Are there any other Useful Resource Pages you would like?  Please let me know.

There are dozens of interesting links again this week. The list below is the in order tweeted.

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

1. 5 Easy Twitter Style To Promote Your Article
2. 5 Tips To Make Your Twitter Profile More Visible
3. Great brainstorming questions for international market research – free for subscribers
4. It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than by doubling your traffic – Jeff Eisenberg
5. A magazine for business applications of cross- cultural communication
6. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful – Jeff Bezos
7. Watch us drill the first Twestival well from Ethiopia. April 11 – April 14 #twestival
8. Hispanics Aggressively Adapting to Tech – insights into how “high collectivism” cultures respond to technology
9. When the going gets tough, the tough get going international – A summary on what to do to get international business
10. Internationalization is like creating a round-toed shoe that fits people with all types of feet – David Debry
11. Capgemini’s New Strategic Business Unit helps clients adapt to shifting markets – Transformation & Social Media
12. RT @big4alum – Hunker down or shift forward? Very interesting cross-industry look from Deloitte on what biz should do now
13. A guide on how to write Simplified English for your internationalization content
14. Reading – Localization of Web Design: An Empirical Comparison of German, Japanese, and U.S. Website Characteristics
15. Globalization and localization presentation report – compares the needs of both options
16. Thought provoking review of The Origins Of Globalization. Common sense the key to best economic systems
17. Interview of Jeffrey Wasserstrom on his book Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments
18. People are realizing that when you are the only young country in an aging world, globalization is good – N. Nilekani
19. Comparing the move to Globalization – Like Graduating from High School to University
20. No Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance - reasons behind the backlash against multinational companies. 40m video
21. The DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for Latinos
22. 10 Things NEVER to Say to Latino Executives
23. 10 Things NEVER to Say to a Black Coworker
24. Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled – Mohammed
25. Cultural Competence – answers to FAQs
26. 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers – Also interesting to look through if you are just a curious kind of person
27. A Diversity Dictionary – for a list of vocabulary related to “diversity” – reading through with an international eye
28. Find the #1 song according to Billboard for any date in history
29. How many people have your name in the US? There are 559 Cindy King’s
30. Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary people write – 3,880,342 definitions
31. Crayola® Washable Multicultural Markers – 1st time I’ve seen these, so kids can draw people with different skin color
32. Three Major Steps Before Going Internationally – with regards to translation
33. Where Culture Is Another Casualty – after the Italian earthquake
34. Dive into culture with a homestay/farmstay. Lodgings offer intimate glimpse of what life is like in another country
35. How to Plan Your International Sales Road Map to Get International Clients
36. G20 summit showed the global economic crisis has forced a rethink of how globalization should work
37. NationMaster: Do you want to rank and compare the countries of the world and don’t have the time to collect the data?
38. Germany Trade & Invest – 10 Reasons to Choose Germany
39. E-trade-center International Business to find business partners in Germany
40. One Hour Translation – by real people, possible with 8000 translators around the world
41. Remember to include international SEO for your international web visibility
42. @Arie_Ball – See this? The Origins Of Globalization – Greece was 1st country to tolerate laissez-faire entrepreneurs
43. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust (via @CateBrubaker)
44. RT @um_ldc – Adventures in Multicultural Living – about how to call your mom when you live abroad – made me smile
45. Europe’s proud, integrated Muslim women – via @um_ldc
46. RT @qliq @monikkinom Looking for Business Card Designers. Please reply this tweet or help me by Rt, thanks
47. RT @KentBeatty @wchingya Reading: A Complete Guide to Finding & Using incredible Flickr Images
48. Why Facebook and Twitter are aging gratefully – CNET News – via @johnhaydon
49. Free Easter Bunny coloring page your kids will love – just right click, save, print and color – Happy Easter RT @mdouble
50. @NineTomatoes – The meditative mandala banner in chakra colors is interesting – is there a special way to use it?
51. Facebook: From 1 to 100 languages in 2 years – 70% of users are outside the U.S. – via @KentBeatty
52. RT @holychic – I wanna kiss u in London. I wanna hold yr hand in Venice. I wanna squeeze u in San Francisco. I wanna hug u in Rome ♫
53. RT @Damir @timjennion – 10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates
54. RT @CSOFTIntl – [Globalization] G20 summit & its impact on technology – A flat world, recovery effort needs 2 be global
55. RT @alina_popescu @Kerrysherin: my 2 cents: PR Educators Debate Compartmentalizing Social Media – A European debate
56. What are your plans for Earth Day? #earthday #climate – via @DoreenatDMS
57. An Easter cartoon via @DoreenatDMS overdone, but a classic nonetheless
58. RT @Northlandfox YouTube – What a Wonderful World
59. Different culture winners of the Thinkquest competition
60. Men build too many walls and not enough bridges – Isaac Newton – RT @roomynaqvy @redstarvip
61. We are what we believe we are – C.S. Lewis – RT @roomynaqvy @SunilJaiswal
62. Customer Insider Do You Have the Right Data to Design Better Customer Experiences? – via @customersmatter
63. 10 Things You Don’t Know About Easter (TIME.com) – via @Larryferlazzo & @MatthiasHeil
64. Will globalization, a cherished economic canon, be severely cross-examined in the downwind of the Black October 2008?
65. Indonesia anticipating globalization risk after G20
66. Shift In Global Power – The Rise Of Eurasia
67. Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences…..Simple and clear go a long way – John Kotter
68. United Nations common data base
69. Which web communication channels are you using to develop your international business?
70. An interview of me on the subject of blogging by @mintblogger
71. Use the phone more than the web to get to know your new markets
72. RT @jjude – Good visual CV - I really enjoyed watching this to the end
73. How to use International Multichannel Marketing to Get International Clients
74. RT @gtb_kris @IntegralLife @odemagazine – Ken Wilber’s take on saving the world through cross-cultural communication
75. When was the last time you needed your cross- cultural communication skills?
76. RT @John_Melendez – Advice for the International Sales Team: Learn the Lingo
77. What Africa’s farmers need now: fairness – They don’t need bailouts. But they do need help to avoid ruthless middle men
78. Think Culture, not Race – A Belgian’s insights into adapting to different culture
79. World Sneezes as American Economy Coughs – a view of the economy from Ethiopia
80. Are you expecting more, or less, international sales this year?
81. Dialogin – community for intercultural professionals
82. What is your best tip to gather international market intelligence?
83. Know the difference between multicultural marketing and cross- cultural marketing when marketing to international audiences online
84. International Sales Best Practice – Be Prepared
85. International Sales Best Practice – Personal Branding
86. The worst cross-cultural communication failures happen from a lack of trust in what you say
87. In international sales trust is an even bigger factor than in domestic sales
88. What is your key motivation to develop your business internationally?
89. Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture – John Abbott
90. How do you think international marketing is important for your online business?
91. Want to get more out of your international marketing? Use better cross- cultural communication
92. Know what type of international business you are in today before selling to foreign clients
93. We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt – William Ernest Hocking
94. Do you review your website for the differences in cultural perception of your international clients?
95. For international sales your international marketing needs to be at the best level
96. Last chance to get a free copy of the ProBlogger Book #problogger
97. International commerce? Trouble with languages? Watch this – Lingo Kid- The Teenage Years
98. Do you think you can get international sales without strong cross- cultural communication?
99. Ethnic marketing in action – Hilary Freeman Can’t Figure Out Why Her Supermarket Thought Her Jewish
100. How have you adapted your web marketing for a multicultural audience?
101. Winners Of The Free Problogger Book Contest & New Blog Post Series
102. Direct Mail Plays Central Role in Marketing to Hispanics – Research your marketing channels by target culture
103. Entrepreneurs: France’s Newest Export - French start-up hopefuls find a friendlier business environment in the U.S.
104. Free multicultural bilingual early learning resources for parents & teachers – via @vene2ia
105. Good read: Think Again: Globalization = Casualty of Economic Crisis + Nothing New + No Longer Means Americanization
106. 13 Pragmatic Social Media Marketing Approaches – via @Mike_Stelzner
107. How to Build Trust to Get International Clients
108. The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell. – Jay Abraham
109. International business is about getting to know why your international clients buy your product
110. How to use International Web Visibility to Get International Clients
111. The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners – Dave Evans
112. A language map for the United States

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Cross-Culture Tweets – Week 16 of 2009