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Banning ‘coterminous stakeholder engagement’ »

By neville on Feb 10, 2008 in Communication, Humour | 6 Comments

Any idea what that phrase means?
It’s a good example of the type of jargon that you still encounter in much of the business world.
But it’s not only the business world that’s awash with pompous words and phrases that confound and confuse normal people.
The Daily Telegraph reports that local councils have been ordered to stop using [...]

A real passion for wine »

By neville on Dec 7, 2007 in Communication, Europe, Humour, Social Media, Weblogs | 0 Comments

Just ask and you might get.
An email from Olivier Magny in Paris about his new video blog Wine Rendezvous says:
[...] I’m trying to spread the word about it! Im trying to have a bit of a different approach in the world of wine!!
Hope you enjoy the videos!
Merci beaucoup!!

In one video, Olivier explains what it’s all [...]

The saviour for English football »

By neville on Nov 23, 2007 in Communication, Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, Social Networks, Sport, Television, Web | 2 Comments

I’ve never watched The Likeaballs, a cartoon TV series for kids on the BBC’s Ceebeebies channel at 7am every weekday.
I’m a bit outside the target demographic
But could The Likeaballs be the saviour for English football now that the head coach has been fired following the national team’s disastrous performance at Wembley the other [...]

Finally - Web 2.0 explained! »

By neville on Nov 18, 2007 in Communication, Humour, Technology, Web | 4 Comments

Ok, kids, you want to understand Web 2.0?
Forget all the corp-speak about "user-generated content" or - even worse - "platforms" and "applications."
Just watch this. All you need is here.

From Nokia. Nice connection (no pun) with their slogan, "Connecting People."
(Via TechCrunch)
[Update 20/11] As noted in the comments, the person at Nokia who uploaded the video has [...]

Social networking license agreement »

By neville on Aug 31, 2007 in Humour, Social Networks | 0 Comments

Charging the provider of a social network an activation fee’ for joining? Requesting payment from the developers for ‘accepted friends requests’?
How about an ‘early termination’ fee as compensation if the social network folds within a year? Or an ‘annual renewal’ fee if they don’t, just for the hell of it?
Heh! Why not?

Become a cartoon with MSN »

By neville on Aug 14, 2007 in Humour, Software, Web | 4 Comments

This is one of those delightful mashups of software, the web and imagination that doesn’t really have much obvious practical application but is great fun.
MSN China is running the MSN China cartoon beta that will take any photo of you and, with your customizations on the website, turn it into a series of cartoons.
Here’s what [...]

Only one is a joke »

By neville on Jul 23, 2007 in Humour, Online Media, Public Relations | 2 Comments

I can’t decide which one is the hilarious one -

The Great Internet Crash of 2007
MoD’s PR army of spin is out of control

You decide.

Dear God, no! »

By neville on Apr 27, 2007 in Blogging, Humour, Workplace | 1 Comment

Yesterday’s Dilbert strip.
Amusing yet eerily reflective of what actually does happen in some companies.
Scott Adams is wickedly perceptive about organizations.

From the ‘would it were true’ department »

By neville on Apr 3, 2007 in Employee Communication, Humour, Workplace | 9 Comments

An April Fool’s Day joke, but imagine if it were true -

“Internal Communicator” is world’s most-desired job, survey finds
Internal comms beats rock star and footballer to top spot.
According to a new study released today by research company, Rumclem, internal communications has now become the field that most young people claim to want to work in [...]

Plausible isn’t necessarily believable »

By neville on Apr 1, 2007 in Blogging, Humour, Technology | 6 Comments

I’ve been reading quite a few of the April Fool’s Day jokes doing the rounds today.
Some excellent imagination with stories that are so convincing, it’s hard to separate fact from fantasy.
Google’s free in-home wireless broadband service, for instance. Highly plausible on a first look but you quickly see the joke when you read the installation [...]

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