The word "webinar" should be banished on pain of death.

[MrCoffee]

What a profoundly stupid pretend word it is.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. As should "staycation"

Both the word and the concept.

[Justyce]

2. I had a 3-hour webinar yesterday, and I agree.

:banghead:

Towards the end, since they can't tell who's saying what, I started yawning & sighing a lot - LOL.

[MorningGlow]

3. I agree, Mr C

I first heard the word about a year and a half ago, when a former friend, who is the most jargon-happy person on the planet, suggested I join a spiritual "webinar" going on. I resisted, in part because I thought it was a stupid word for a stupid concept. What, judgmental? Moi?
:rofl:

[kentauros]

4. And yet

I like the word :D

It's descriptive of what the event is and how it is being presented. It's also easy to remember, whether you hate it or not. Get used to it; it's now in your vocabulary :P

[Bake]

5. I loathe that word.

There's a commercial that uses it, and it makes me physically ill every time. That one where the Aussie-sounding buy (might be British) "found the internet" with a mobile network card on his laptop.

:puke:

Bake

[kentauros]

7. Thanks for letting me know of your weakness.

I just need to input webinar into the proper electron incantation

[Bake]

8. Nope. Nice try, but it won't work ... it's just that commercial that does it.

:hi:

Bake

[kentauros]

9. Never underestimate the power of a Technomage

:P


(did you know you can link images here? :D)

[petronius]

6. At the end of the day, interfacing through webinars is a best praxis for leveraging

core competencies to maximize a meta-team's virtual synergies, which advances forward the entity-wide quest for win-win solutions. So screw off, you dirty hippie!

:)

[MrCoffee]

11. LMAO

You suck!

:rofl:

[MorningGlow]

17. Yeah, but what's the take-away? what's the value-add?

:rofl: :puke:

[no name no slogan]

24. You're not using best practices to enact a paradigm shift

so go eat a bowl of dicks, commie

[jobycom]

10. I hate the word "seminar." Why not the whole nar?

[geardaddy]

12. As should "automagically"

and "plate" as a verb.

:grr:

[kentauros]

15. Where is "automagically" used?

I thought I had "invented" just the main word "automagic" to replace an IDoJ term "automatic" for a house that had the power of a djinni, as automagic makes far more sense in that context ;)

What context is it used in the "real" world?

"Plate" as a verb is legitimate as it is specific to cooking and the presentation of your culinary creation

[geardaddy]

16. I've seen it in some software user manuals

It's incredibly annoying. I mean, if they put quotes around it, I'd be ok with that, but these technical writers are giving the rest of us TWs a bad name by using it like it was a real word.

[kentauros]

20. That's weird if they don't put quotes on it

and I would question their sanity in using "magic" at all in a technical report.

I have listened to a supervisor criticize how clients imagine that "AutoCAD" in fact means "MagiCAD" ;)

[geardaddy]

18. Maybe now "plate" is, but I still think it's annoying.

:D

[kentauros]

21. It was odd when I first learned it

back in the early 1990s in relation to presenting a dessert plate, but I got used to it fast as it was in the proper context, and used often in that field. I see it as no different than how jargon is used in other fields. It would be weird to see "plate" used by say, lawyers, as that would be totally out of expected context. (I can't even think of an absurd use for lawyers to use it as a verb :P)

[geardaddy]

25. I totally understand what you're saying.

I guess I find it annoying that TeeVee chefs use it. As a technical writer we are told to generally avoid jargon. So, I guess I'm a little over-sensitive to it sometimes.

[kentauros]

27. Well, it's weird for the kind of writing you use.

I never once saw "plate" or "plating" written in pastry class. We simply learned it verbally. I suppose cooking textbooks will have it written down by now, but I don't recall that in my books. I could look and get back to you, though :)

It's been a very long time since I had a technical writing class. Why are you told to avoid jargon? I would think it would be appropriate to the various technical fields.

[geardaddy]

30. I think it's because jargon

can be so non-standard. One thing means something at this company, but it might be slightly different or non-existent in another company of the same industry.

Corporate America is notorious for it's jargon.

[elocs]

13. I must confess that this is the first time I have seen that word.

I never realized what a sheltered life I must lead.

[ismnotwasm]

14. You could write an entire science fiction story around it

"The Webinar" A story about webinars that were able to infiltrate peoples brain with a sleep virus, threatening world economy collapse, because there wasn't enough coffee in the world to keep people awake. The virus at first seemed to cause mere boredom, leading to that money losing, but ever so satisfying sleep. While people were asleep the webinar virus gave messages to the brain, in essence causing uncontrollable greed and an almost holy ability at short term economic thinking. A few hardy souls discovered the evil plot, but were quickly discredited.



AND That asshole Orson Scott Card (I'm still boycotting his dumbass books) should write it.

[kentauros]

19. Just imagine if you tied it together with blipverts...

"A deadly combination of blipverts and webinars has hit the field of marketing communications," the reporter began as ambulances lined the entrance of Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York. Stretcher after stretcher was hauled out, carrying what appeared to be the entire senior-level marketing group.

[ismnotwasm]

22. LOL

"Doctors are puzzled by the Phenomena, but are working 'round the clock to find a cure; one noted Neurologist has been experimented with a slow recovery process using Commodore 64 programing and music from Lobo"

[Radical Activist]

23. Yes!

It was grating the first time I heard it and it only becomes more vapid with greater use.

[flvegan]

26. You still think a fax machine is cutting edge tech, dontcha?

[3dogday]

28. While the word may be stupid, the concept is not

Webinars have the potential to significantly reduce the need for business travel, which is a plus in my book

[kentauros]

29. There ya go!

:D

I hope the Infrastructure rebuilding package includes promoting telecommuting. It's really mind-boggling that people didn't hop on it when gasoline was so high, yet it was never mentioned where I work.

Welcome to DU, too! :hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

31. whats a webinar?

[kentauros]

32. A web-based seminar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webinar

:)

[fizzgig]

33. omg! your sig!

completely off-topic, but that is one of my favorite bits of his. i laugh til i cry every time i watch it

slaptyback fistybuns is my favorite, tho :rofl:

[kentauros]

35. Then you'll love this:

Engelbert and JFK (transcript)

"What shall we call our son so he does not get the shit kicked out of him at school?"

“We shall call him Engelbert!"

"Good, that'll work!"

:rofl:



I like Slut Banwalla

[Left Is Write]

34. Yes. I agree.