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Network With Randall
In an effort to be more myself
I’ve always had the dilemma when writing for the Marketing Curve blog that I can only add content when it’s about 70% or more about marketing.
As such the posts have been few and far between.
So, it has been decided (here in the Marketing Curve Ivory Tower) that a blog is supposed to be more personal than that! In order to extend my brand effectively I need to be myself. The best way to do that is an offsite blog with separate branding.
There will still be oodles on marketing and sales, but now if I want to put a post out there about social media not being very social, or how it’s common for job seekers to suffer from depression I should be able to. It’s not like I’m fighting my brand to tell you what I had for breakfast or what errands I ran that day.
But making this change yesterday yielded three somewhat interesting blog posts, when usually I sit at an empty notepad file thinking about what to write and which blog to write it for almost daily.
It has gone from being difficult to being joyous and exciting - and I think you’ll notice.
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w00t the he11?
Mirriam-Webster has chosen their Word of the Year.
The word is w00t.
I’m watching CNN Headline News explain the meaning right now.
John Morse, president of Merriam-Webster, told the Associated Press that the selection of "w00t" "shows a really interesting thing that’s going on in language. It’s a term that’s arrived only because we’re now communicating electronically with each other."
Do you find it a little odd that the dictionary company is choosing an obscure word as the word of the year? I mean, I know what it means and so do most of my friends…but that’s because I’m a computer geek!
Did w00t hit the MySpace kiddie scene and I missed it? They’re already typing LiKe ThIs wITh ThE CaPs (how do they do that with any speed? I type 92wpm and doing the upper/lowercase thing kills my speed.) But if the 106 million and counting people of MySpace embraced w00t while I wasn’t looking that could explain it.
All I know for sure is if I had my say, the word would have been l33t (also spelled 133+)- it’s long overdue.* It’s even mentioned in Merriam-Webster’s article on the 2007 word of the year. The entry can be found HERE.
Do you have a favorite nonsensical word that you think should have made it as the coveted Word of the Year? If so, let me know in the comments section. Please also give me a definition. I don’t want to spend the next year on www.urbandictionary.com trying to find it.
*For those of you that don’t want to go over to the Merriam-Webser site - 133t = leet = elite (more geek talk from back in the day. Maybe I should just get a walker now and start learning how to play shuffleboard. I am gettin OLD!)
Some other words from the top ten that didn’t get chosen:
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