THINKing

Tweeta20 – A Non-Profit Social Media Pilot Project

On Tuesday, May 11, nine Charlotte social media folks and I will spend an hour trying to raise money for Thompson Child & Family Focus, an organization that has spent nearly 125 years providing education, treatment and support for children traumatized by sexual abuse, domestic violence or rampant neglect.

Buzzword & Jargon Tools

Let’s all agree right now that we will try to communicate like humans and not mind-numbed corporate zombies. Who is with me?

OK. To help you out, I’m offering a few buzzword and jargon fighting tools. Here you go:

Business Jargon Generator -  This one is not a buzzword fighting tool but generates some funny phrases.

Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say

Office worker 1: I just don’t have the bandwidth to get this done. I feel like I’m drinking from a firehose, and besides so many of these assignments are not in my wheelhouse, and they are neither game changers nor paradigm shifters. And we really haven’t baked in all the data yet.

Hoover At Random

A few links for your dining and dancing pleasure:

Less than one-quarter of US Internet users ages 40 and over use social networking Web sites, according to the JWT BOOM/ThirdAge “Boomers, Healthcare and Interactive Media” study conducted last month.

Big brands are using social media like Twitter to further their aims.

Banning Bull****

At the end of the day, we will break through the clutter, set some best practices for our mission critical, client-centric, empowered, globalized, downsized, enterprise workforce. But right now that’s not in my wheelhouse and I really don’t have the bandwidth, nor the funds for BPO. With a little help, I’ll bet I could add significant value by leveraging my robust end-to-end technology and thus foster worldwide interoperability.