#techspeak

Why You Should Discourage Your Children from Writing in Techspeak

by Read Think Write Teach Techspeak is the use of common acronyms and abbreviations in lieu of fully spelled out words you wish to communicate. For example: ADN – Any Day Now, CWYL – Chat With You Later and WE – Whatever, you get the point. Are there times when it is helpful to use shortcuts? Yes! For instance, I find myself using it when I am about to go underground and know that the time I take…

Ikea invites consumers to re-experience the simple pleasures of a ‘bookbook™’!

In a brilliant play on Apple’s highly descriptive user-interface ads, Ikea highlights the oft-forgotten sensorial pleasures of handling a real paper book using modern day tech-speak.

"Swimming in the social stream."

"Crowdsourcing app discovery-platform."

"Can you talk about getting conceptual liftoff?"

"What's your current go-to-market strategy?"

"Now, let's talk about disrupting the disruptors."

"We're iterating our butts off, dude."

"Looks like it's searching for a use case."

"We're all about glocal right now."

"Collaborative consumption is truly a revolution."

"Plat-Ag." (As in "Platform-Agnostic.")

"You did one of the great pivots of all-time."

"We don't measure our success by financial results."

By Nelly Yusupova (CTO, Webgrrls)

When I speak to entrepreneurs, I often feel like a “tech doctor” listening to horror stories about their tech people and tech projects getting out of control. I have spoken to thousands of entrepreneurs in my workshops and seminars at conferences across the country.

The most asked questions that I get are:

Why is my tech project costing so much?

How can I find the right tech person?

How has this project fallen so far behind?

What in the world is my tech person saying?

I get promised one thing but delivered another!

I hope I am not getting ripped off!