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  Word Spy - buzzword bingo
Buzzwords — "incent," "proactive, "impactfulness," for example — are preselected and placed on a bingo-like card in random boxes.
When one of the buzzwords is spoken at the meeting, players put a coin on its square.
Buzzword bingo is appealing not only because most business meetings are deadly dull, but also because you get the feeling that most of the people spouting these buzzwords are doing it only to sound important.
www.wordspy.com /words/buzzwordbingo.asp   (693 words)

  
 Buzzword Hell
Buzzword Hell is the new place to waste your time doing what we all love to do - bash those bastardized words that should have never been born.
Strategy is essential to the success of any organization and implement and suggested ones would normally have to fit into established systems, assuming that the business does not want to risk implementing new policies and procedures in their current setup.
Buzzwords are fashion terminologies stemming from new words used and composed like idioms in various purposes such as managerial, technical, and political setups.
www.buzzwordhell.com   (692 words)

  
 Buzzword bingo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The rules resemble those of bingo and housie, but instead of a matrix of numbers, each player's card is a matrix of buzzwords.
The winner is the player who crosses a full line first and exclaims, "Bingo!" Part of the game, unlike in regular bingo, is having sufficient courage to yell out "Bingo!" in the middle of the meeting, especially as the winning buzzwords are likely to have been utterred by "the boss".
One documented buzzword bingo occurred when Al Gore, then the Vice President of the United States known for his liberal use of buzzwords hyping technology, spoke at MIT's 1996 graduation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buzzword_bingo   (211 words)

  
 Buzzword - definition, information, sites, articles.
Buzzwords are part of the fashion of a living language, more about style than substance.
A buzzword spends only a fraction of its life being used; the rest of the time it is being abused.
The result is a phenomenon known as buzzword backlash, whereby the tide turns against a buzzword and it starts to fade from usage.
www.marketingterms.com /dictionary/buzzword   (125 words)

  
 Buzzword - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buzzwords are typically intended to impress one's audience with the pretense of knowledge.
Buzzwords can also function to control thought by being intentionally vague.
Dilbert — cartoon series satirising buzzword use in management.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buzzword   (305 words)

  
 Just Another Buzzword
It's been a buzzword in the educational establishment for months, but in his State of the Union Message, President Clinton enshrined it as the new federal education mantra: accountability.
Having seen many buzzwords come and go, we should be skeptical of an idea embraced so quickly by politicians and educators.
A better buzzword for the public school system might be perestrokia, communism's last buzzword.
www.cato.org /dailys/01-29-99.html   (821 words)

  
 Buzzword Bingo [Random!]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buzzword Bingo is a way to change all of that!
Buzzword Bingo and print one copy of this game card for each player, refreshing the page before each print, or have the players print their own BS Bingo cards.
Phrases for "Buzzword Bingo" randomly chosen from a list of 242 possible selections, last updated: Fri Aug 18 17:37:13 PDT 2006.
www.bullshitbingo.net /cards/buzzword   (152 words)

  
 Buzzword Marketing - copy strategy, writing and editing services for businesses, independent consultants and non-profit ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
At Buzzword, we work with companies and consultants nationwide to create compelling copy that stands out.
Visit Buzzword Basics to learn more about our writing/editing services and approach to copy strategy.
Buzzword's first project for Your True Nature yielded five successful major media mentions and reached a magazine circulation of 1 million readers.
www.buzzwordonline.com /index.html   (239 words)

  
 Buzzword | Kids Boardgames | Toys | Reviews | Family Board Games | Products | Teens | Fun Game | Rules | Play   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buzzword is an easy-to-play game where you and your teammates have 45 seconds to solve ten clues, which all contain the selected Buzzword.
Buzzword is simple to play and is a very lively game for parties or other gatherings with friends.
You may find many of the answers to the Buzzwords quite challenging, but there's enough variety in the game that anyone with a reasonable vocab will have fun playing.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p5577.htm   (168 words)

  
 Buzzword Solutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buzzword Solutions uses the following tools and technologies to help customers fulfill their goals.
Buzzword Solutions has over 6 years experience building and editing Web pages with DHTML, and is skilled enough to do so without the need of GUI Web site creation tools.
Buzzword Solutions is an expert user of Lasso technology.
www.buzzword.us /technology.lasso   (332 words)

  
 TekMom's Technology Buzzwords for Students
Have students search the Buzzword definitions here on the Web for any words they don't know (the answers aren't posted).
Have a "Buzzword of the Week" at your school.
Print out the buzzword definition and use it as the center of a display.
www.tekmom.com /buzzwords   (317 words)

  
 Monster.com: Buzzword Bonanza (Dotcom feature)
"The biggest problem is not the buzzwords themselves, as they often convey complex thoughts very quickly among people who know what they mean and serve as a kind of filter to determine how wired someone is to conventional wisdom.
The real problem with buzzwords lies in the poseurs of the world that hear a new phrase and start spewing it to sound cool without ever understanding what it means," he says.
Two other good resources for figuring out exactly what a buzzword means are: Whatis.com and Webopedia.com.
internet.monster.com /articles/buzzwords   (1267 words)

  
 Techdirt: People Powered Buzzword Du Jour: Crowdsourcing
While jumping on the buzzword bandwagon doesn't always make sense, there are important ideas to consider across all of these discussions.
Unfortunately, as with many buzzwords, expect to start seeing lots of new business models that talk up how they're leveraging "crowdsourcing" when the truth will be that very few are actually doing so.
Crapsaucetasticmania is a new buzzword I just invented to describe the phenonena whereby every idiot feels the need to invent a buzzword to describe any given phenonemon.
www.techdirt.com /articles/20060525/1141207.shtml   (1976 words)

  
 About Buzzword Marketing - copy strategy, writing and editing services for businesses, independent consultants and ...
At Buzzword, we help clients define and creatively communicate key strategic points to attract a critical target audience, and then generate a positive "buzz" around your business.
The Buzzword team also takes great care to develop a copy strategy that fits your budget and business goals.
Choose Buzzword to write or edit your communications materials, articles and Web content, and eliminate one more thing from your "To Do" list--with peace-of-mind that it will be done right.
www.buzzwordonline.com /about.html   (253 words)

  
 BUZZWORDS
I'm calling "buzzwords" words used frequently in the media that mean something other than the conventional definition.
The purpose of buzzwords is to sap your ability to think critically by divorcing words from ideas.
Democracy: The biggest buzzword of them all; it has come to mean "acquiescence to the will of the United States and/or the industrialized North." The US only supports democracies, regardless of their human rights records, and regardless of the lack of democracy in the regimes.
a4a.mahost.org /buzz.html   (2404 words)

  
 Democrats hope a buzzword will leave Bush smarting - The Boston Globe
If John Kerry seems leery of the L word, seeking to avoid being saddled with the "liberal" label that helped doom the presidential candidacies of fellow Bay Staters Ted Kennedy and Mike Dukakis, he appears to have no problem with the W word.
Now, the matter of relative strength can perhaps be settled by an arm-wrestling contest between Kerry and Bush, but wisdom is one of those more elusive qualities, like beauty, that seems to reside in the eye of the beholder.
Could a wiseguy be forgiven for wondering whether this particular buzzword isn't just a polite, shorthand way of saying, "Bush is a dim bulb, and Kerry has gravitas to burn"?
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/07/28/democrats_hope_a_buzzword_will_leave_bush_smarting   (888 words)

  
 Funagain Games: Buzzword
On your team's turn, one member grabs a card, announces its buzzword, and reads the 10 clues in order.
Other team members must solve each clue by calling out the phrase that includes the buzzword.
Buzzwords was a terrific way to bring in everyone from the family room to the kitchen to the TV room.
www.funagain.com /control/product/~product_id=14380/~affil=WGPX   (417 words)

  
 WordCentral.Com - The Daily Buzzword - Subscribe
We will only use your e-mail address to send you the Daily Buzzword; we won't share your address with others without permission.
The Daily Buzzword is by e-mail delivered seven days a week, 365 days a year.
After the writers finish, an editor checks all of the Buzzwords and prepares them for posting on Word Central and for e-mailing to you.
www.startsampling.com /sm/wod/buzz_signup.html   (303 words)

  
 Mister Harold's Jokes - Buzzword Bingo Card Generator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This generator may be used to produce Buzzword Bingo or Bullshit Bingo cards, using the words you supply.
Buzzword Bingo and Bullshit Bingo are the same thing, except that in Buzzword Bingo the winner shouts 'BINGO!', and in Bullshit Bingo the winner shouts 'BULLSHIT!'.
If you want to make your own Buzzword Bingo card variations, you can either start from scratch or install an initial set of words/phrases, and add/alter to your taste.
www.misterharold.net /joker/bingo/index.htm   (428 words)

  
 Buzzword Free Board Game Sweepstakes!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
At the end of June, one lucky person's name will be drawn to receive a FREE copy of the game!
Buzzword is easy to learn and a ton of fun!
Visit our Buzzword game play page to warm up with some practice clues.
www.patchproducts.com /letsplay/freegame.asp   (126 words)

  
 Weatherzone - Australia's leading weather resource - weather forecasts, satellite, BoM radar and more   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Your Buzzword request will always start with 'weather' followed by the keyword and then the postcode and/or the town name for the area for where you want the weather information.
Weatherzone Buzzword products are also available by subscription.
More information on other Buzzword services can be found at www.buzzword.com.au.
www.weatherzone.com.au /buzzword.jsp   (221 words)

  
 BuzzWhack: Buy The Buzzword Dictionary
If you nominated a buzzword and it made it on the BuzzWhack site, there's a good chance that word made it in the book -- and your name is listed at the end of the book.
This lighthearted look at how English is being mangled reveals the underlying meaning, as well as the attitudes behind the meaning, of more than 1,000 buzzwords.
Readers will discover that "learning opportunity" is a nice way of saying "mistake;" a "lawn mullet" is a yard that's neatly trimmed out front but growing long in the back; and a "meanderthal" is someone who has a hard time getting to the point when telling a story.
www.buzzwhack.com /inside/buybuzz.htm   (285 words)

  
 IHTFP Hack Gallery: Al Gore Buzzword Bingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In a hack perpetrated by the entire graduating class, the audience played Bingo with the vice-president's speech.
The card instructed participants to mark off the buzzwords as they were mentioned during the Vice-President's speech and to hold up their card when they got five in a row or across a diagonal.
The cards were apparently brought to the attention of Gore before the speech.
hacks.mit.edu /Hacks/by_year/1996/gore   (156 words)

  
 Adactio: Journal - Buzzword Bingo
If you visit that page you will be presented with a 5x5 grid of current buzzwords (actually, some of the words are names of companies or websites but close enough).
While the presenters are doing their spiels, listen out for the buzzwords on your bingo card.
I’ll be there, ticking off buzzwords as they are spoken.
adactio.com /journal/1078   (330 words)

  
 "Professional" is a buzzword - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
It is not a buzzword, it is a decriptor of quality, excellence, and accountability.
It has, unfortunately, become a buzzword as well - ‘professional dress’ for example, means wearing ‘business attire’, which says nothing about the person doing the wearing, but quite a bit about the person grading the attire.
It is not a buzzword to those who have earned it.
37signals.com /svn/archives2/professional_is_a_buzzword.php   (4961 words)

  
 Monkeyboys.org software for the PalmPilot
BuzzWord Bingo is based on a Dilbert Cominc strip.
The employees rigged their Palm Pilot handheld computers [using BuzzWord Bingo] to churn out new cards whenever they have a meeting.
To date, the beep has yet to sound, indicating a need to reprogram the computers "to create more winning opportunity," says Eric Miller, one of the players, letting fly with a buzzterm of his own.
christophercotton.com /monkeyboys/pilot   (499 words)

  
 FilePlanet: Buzzword Generator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Welcome to FilePlanet, the leading online destination for Buzzword Generator downloads and hundreds of thousands of other game files, including demos, patches, mods, trailers, free pc games and more.
You can start using our download services to download Buzzword Generator by creating a free account on FilePlanet to access our public servers, or upgrade to a premium account to access our no-wait servers and enjoy our subscriber exclusives.
By continuing past this page, and by your continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
www.fileplanet.com /31189/30000/fileinfo/Buzzword-Generator   (384 words)

  
 Buzzword Bingo
The card was printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper and was formatted so that it could be folded in half and unobtrusively kept in a Franklin planner.
A similar game is Buzzword Baseball, where different buzzwords are assigned different values like "Single," "Double," "Pop fly, out; runners advance." Everyone scores the same game, so you should pick teams ahead of time.
I know that some of you are tongue-in-cheek (oh no, might that be a buzzword from our fathers' generation?) but many of the geek patrol here are serious when they toss distaste or worse at our evolving corporate vocabulary.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?BuzzwordBingo   (749 words)

  
 buzzword - news
In version 0.8.12 are a few bugfixes and two new modules-- Planet, a subscription based RSS aggregator for things like a "friends" page and About, an example for adding your own custom buzzword modules.
We've also added a few chapters to the buzzword documentation.
For developers, we've started using phpDocumentor to document the buzzword code.
jon.tgpsolutions.com /projects/buzzword/news/index.php   (297 words)

  
 GigaOM Web Word Processing Gets Upgrade «
Often, their makers claim stripping down Word for the web is a selling point — they say complicated functions would be better left to a desktop app.
The commenting structure is rather nice — you highlight a piece of text and then affix a virtual sticky note in the margin.
Virtual Ubiquity wants to fully release BuzzWord (under a new name) by the fall, in the hopes it can attract students to use the product for term papers when they return to school.
gigaom.com /2007/02/28/web-word-processing-gets-upgrade   (1211 words)

  
 Buzzword Bingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Dating back to early 1993, Tom's was, as far I know, the first ever implementation of buzzword bingo.
In 1994, Scott Adams did a Dilbert strip involving buzzword bingo, and in 1998, Tom and I were even quoted slandering management on the front page of the Wall Street Journal!
Tom Davis's Buzzword Bingo is an excellent solution to long meetings--just print up a few of these and take them with you.
www.lurkertech.com /chris/bingo   (214 words)

  
 BuzzWhack: The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary
A person who receives some degree of pleasure in bursting the bubbles of the pompous.
That way if the account information is stolen, there’s very little for bad guys to take.
Our selection is growing every day, so you're sure to find a buzzword you love.
www.buzzwhack.com   (878 words)

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