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IT Buzzword Bingo Round 3: Social Media
5Let’s make some social media Buzzword Bingo cards!
This is another in my normal humorous Saturday blog post series about a funny aspect of the Information Technology profession. In the past, I have featured jokes, comics, cartoons, and news.
We are back for another round of Information Technology BuzzWord Bingo today! I have taken a real liking to this game and recommend that you give it a try to keep meetings fun.
For the uninitiated. you start with a group of confidants that have prepared Bingo cards prior to a meeting. Then as the speaker uses various Buzzwords, you cross them off on your personal score card. If you get to five across, with the center square being a free space, you have to tell the others that you have "Bingo" and you become the winner. It depends on the corporate culture if you actually get to yell, "BINGO!", or not!
This round features social media buzzwords. Seeing as this is probably the biggest trend in the Information Age for this decade, I figured that it deserved a BINGO card. Special thanks to Ignite Social Media whose article 25 Social Media Buzzwords provided the first 25 of about 50 words that I used to make my cards.
Background links:
- Wikipedia has a terrific site on it with some super links.
- They have an even better site with lists of Buzzwords by topic to get you started making cards.
- BusinessBuzzwordBingo.com is another funny resource explaining the history of the game.
- Whatis.com is another top source for IT buzzwords
If you want to quickly get a card for your next tech meeting, you can get a random one ready made for printing at businessbuzzwordbingo.com. That is where I made today’s! Here is a link to the text file of buzzwords that I used. There should be enough for many random cards. Here is a link to the pdf version of my card.
But, for more fun, here are two great links to online Buzzword Bingo Card generators if you want to customize one for your office:
Above, you can see a sample Buzzworrd Bingo Card that I made for information technology! If you click on it, the full text is much more visible. Maybe you can print that one out and try it? Let me know if you get BINGO!
Enjoy, but don’t get caught by your boss! Please share if you have played this game at work as well.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for March 13, 2010.
Note: Buzzword Bingo Card created using businessbuzzwordbingo.com.
IT Quote of the Day: Dave Barry
0I like Information Age quotations. I find some of them very inspirational and like to carry a new one around about every week. I thought that i could share mine with you from time to time. This week’s is even a funny one!
Here is my quote of the day:
“User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."”
- Dave Barry
You can learn more about our quote source at Wikipedia of their own site.
So how do you think that this relates to Information Technology? How do you think that it could be important to Information Technology Professionals?
Do you like quotations? Do you collect them, too? What did you think of when you read this one? Do you agree or disagree with it? Please comment below.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for March 9, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
Image credit: Wired Writers Blog
Quote Source: Quote Garden.com
IT Joke Of The Week: Programmer Humor
5I like a good joke as much as the next person. I especially like humorous jokes tied to technology and the Information Age. It is hard to find good IT jokes, but I try. Saturdays, I try very hard to honor the weekend by making my posts have a humorous bent.
This week’s joke is a gift from www.digitalconsciousness.net. I hope that you both enjoy it and go to their site to see all the other funny IT jokes that they have.
I am sure that every Information Technology Professional has funny stories from working with coders and software developers. They can be a very gifted and creative bunch!
Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs don’t work:
# 20. "That’s weird…"
# 19. "It’s never done that before."
# 18. "It worked yesterday."
# 17. "How is that possible?"
# 16. "It must be a hardware problem."
# 15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
# 14. "There is something funky in your data."
# 13. "I haven’t touched that module in weeks!"
# 12. "You must have the wrong version."
# 11. "It’s just some unlucky coincidence."
# 10. "I can’t test everything!"
# 9. "THIS can’t be the source of THAT."
# 8. "It works, but it hasn’t been tested."
# 7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
# 6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
# 5. "Even though it doesn’t work, how does it feel?
# 4. "You can’t use that version on your system."
# 3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
# 2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
# 1. And the Number One Reply by Programmers when their programs don’t work: "I thought I fixed that."
What do you think? Do you know of any other good IT joke sites or artists? Do you have any IT humor to share? Have a great weekend.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for March 6, 2010. ©Scott Coughlin.
Joke Credit: www.digitalconsciousness.net
Image Credit: mccarthy glass