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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Davey Winder
Buzzword Bingo is back
For anyone who had hoped that Buzzword Bingo had jumped out of the same 10th floor window as the dotcom investors who excelled in playing it when the bubble burst a few short years back, sorry but I have bad news: it is alive and kicking. The proof can be found within my email inbox every single day as there is always at least one press release that dispels the notion that given enough time monkeys and typewriters can produce meaningful prose (with apologies to sign-reading chimps everywhere.)
Perhaps the most blatant Buzzword Bingo press release that came to my attention of late can be found in all its glory here.
To save you the pain of having to read through all of it, here are my favourite extracts:
“a universal profile service for the social web that engages communities and enables content discovery”
“a provider of semantic intelligence solutions”
“thought leaders emerge”
“increasing their social capital”
“more closely emulate how communities flourish on the long tail”
BINGO!
Tags: bingo, buzzword, jargon, pr, press release
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June 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 am
Our buzzword is ‘agile’ (http://www.thoughtden.co.uk/why-us/) !
Dan Course : http://www.thoughtden.co.uk
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:58 am
No mention of paradigm shifting. Shame
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Nothing about empowering stakeholders?
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