Posts tagged Social Networking
Social Media Buzzword Bingo Round 4
0Let’s make another social media Buzzword Bingo cards!
This is another in my 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!
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 April 10, 2010.
Note: Buzzword Bingo Card created using businessbuzzwordbingo.com.
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.
Social Media is a Revolution in Internet Affairs
2I am a firm believer in the idea that we are seeing a revolution in technology occurring right now. That revolution is called the rise of social media. Others have called it Web 2.0, Web 2.5, and even Web 3.0, but whatever the label, the Internet is moving from a static collection of “dead” content to a living, breathing, human experience that is more about connecting people and their ideas rather than anything else. Communication is becoming the purpose of going online.
I am especially fond of collecting extremely good examples of people explaining technology in effective ways. There have been many videos, presentations, and speeches made available that support my idea above, but few that I found as good as the one that I would like to highlight today.
The video below was first brought to my attention by a colleague who sent me a link to the video on YouTube. It is by Socialnomics09.
Enjoy this video:
The evolution of the Internet from a data collector, to an information repository, to a knowledge management device, and eventually to a wisdom generator requires it to move through the same incremental maturity steps of its creators: us. The social landscape that is being templated onto the Internet as we watch by Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Posterus, Google Reader, and MySpace is that growing-up process. My Information Technology Thought of the Day is simply to watch it in awe and agree with the sentiment of this show in full. I tip my hat to its creators and hope that everyone will pass it along to the naysayers and non-believers out there.
How has your organization responded to this revolution? Have they buried their heads in the sand and hoped that it would all just go away, or has it been embraced by leadership, the technical gatekeepers, and users? What examples of effective implementation do you know of? Do you know of other videos or sites that explain this as well as the above video did? Please share.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for September 2, 2009.
Image credits: real-techguy.com