Social enterprises and social entrepreneurs are still buzzwords and novel concepts in most markets.
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Instead of speaking in plain English, they fill their conversations with overused jargon and buzzwords.
"Resilient" is one of the two buzzwords at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting this week.
The first eyebrow-waggler is the attachment of these buzzwords to just one department, or chapter, or course.
Social media and content marketing may be the latest marketing buzzwords, but they are much more than that.
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Notebook and pencil were in hand, I was ready to grab any trends, cliches and buzzwords I could get.
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The storyteller is the problem, the presenter who creates wordy, text-heavy slides and uses dull, convoluted jargon and buzzwords.
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So far a third has gone to 14 firms, including word processing Web site Buzzwords, which Adobe acquired in November.
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These phrases serve as buzzwords, used to placate suffering fan bases and bring a smidgen of hollow optimism to a hopeless situation.
Yorkshire born and bred chef, cookbook author and proprietor of The Star Inn, Andrew Pern championed local and seasonal food long before they became buzzwords.
And second, because he is dealing with the underlying mathematical theory of computing, his text is blissfully free of brand-names and buzzwords.
At this year's WEF, "collaborative innovation" were the buzzwords for delegates.
By definition, buzzwords are showy and frankly can come off snob-ish if the person is not familiar with the terms you are using.
Strong and forceful are relative terms, so if you use all of the same buzzwords that everyone else does, you will always seem mediocre.
Commitment, responsibility, engagement - these are just some of the buzzwords that have resounded around the conference centres of provincial cities in the past fortnight.
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Explaining that the country must learn to build from the grassroots, they use the current buzzwords of western policymakers such as transparency, accountability and empowerment.
Right now, there are not many ways for travellers to figure out whether a hotel is serious about reducing energy use or whether it is just using buzzwords.
The output is a collection of features, buzzwords and industry jargon.
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"You can't be giving out awards and not have the success of American Idol in mind, and all its attendant buzzwords like democratization and crowd-sourcing, " he says.
Those seeking inspiration for the perfect pitch or prank might look at Itsthisforthat.com, which generates often absurd capsule descriptions of Internet start-ups by mashing up existing business concepts and buzzwords.
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a weekly column that covers everything related to digital convergence, the connected home, and all those other multimedia buzzwords that marketers are tossing out these days.
Local organisations like CODIG (Committee for the Protection of Ilha Grande) are lobbying to repeal the decree, but for now, preservation and sustainability have become the buzzwords of the day on the island.
" As Ian Read, who took over as the head of the sales organization under McKinnell, puts it: "I know these are buzzwords, but everybody uses them and they do so for a reason.
One of the buzzwords of London 2012 has been "legacy" and just as the venues and the sports they support are hoping to inspire a generation to come, so the technology will have life beyond 2012.
What sets them apart is their ability to think outside of Japanese industry's tried and not-so-true practices, and embrace such ideas such as shareholder value and being customer-driven - the management buzzwords in thriving companies worldwide.
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