Prof Bruce's definitions
A tech whiteout occurs when your office experiences or you experience a complete meltdown of the technology you rely on to run your enterprise or life.
“All we did was call in one of our techies and the next thing you know we had a total tech whiteout in our office: our entire network crashed, our VoIP phones wouldn’t work, in fact, you couldn’t even log on to your own local workstation since even that is controlled by the network. These days the Internet is so in-grained into our work flow for: data storage, social networking, running our websites, operating our phones, running applications, communicating with our clients, etc., that when our network isn’t working, we might as well send everyone home. The only thing that was working was the one old analog phone line we keep around for our fax machine.”
by Prof Bruce April 5, 2010
Get the tech whiteoutmug. To intricate someone; to bring people on board or to get them onside with an idea or a proposal or an initiative of some type by getting them intricated into the process bit by bit, almost without their noticing that they are making a commitment.
When a group was trying to Bring Back the Ottawa Senators in 1990, a team that had not played in the National Hockey League for nearly 60 years, one of their key advisers, former US Attorney General, Elliot Richardson (now deceased) said: "First we'll get the League’s Board of Governors intricated then we'll get the (expansion) franchise!"
by Prof Bruce March 5, 2009
Get the Intricatedmug. My cell phone company provided me with an ‘all you can eat’ one price, all inclusive deal that turned out to have numerous exclusions. They sure know how to wrangle money out of their clients with service level agreements that no one but a lawyer understands. That firm is a money wrangler, for sure.
by Prof Bruce March 15, 2010
Get the Money wranglermug. Every time you hear an economist utter yet another wrong or contradictory prediction, you can instantly feel better using this expletive. “If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion,” George Bernard Shaw.
“Economists have accurately predicted nine out of the past five recessions,” paraphrasing a supposed quip by Nobel economist Paul Samuelson about the stock market. If you are feeling frustrated by a lack of precision from economists, you can curse the profession by exclaiming: ‘Frigonomics’.
by Prof Bruce July 13, 2010
Get the Frigonomicsmug. “Why are you spending so much of your time on Twitter? If you’re not careful, you’ll turn into a Twitterbug.”
by Prof Bruce November 9, 2009
Get the Twitterbugmug. Today’s strict privacy laws require that you protect consumer information. For this and many other reasons, it is often necessary to anonymize a data set, a blog article, a media report or a case study. Anonomizing a story or a case study can also help protect a confidential source or informant.
“You are doing work for a private Foundation and you believe that their case would make interesting reading for your students. The only problem—you are under a confidentiality agreement. With their permission, you anonymize the information and data and write up their story on your blog—sans anything that can point back to the original.”
by Prof Bruce December 8, 2009
Get the anonymizemug. A Startup Whisperer is a person who has a natural feel for what it takes to build a successful new enterprise.
“Thinking of starting a new business and not too sure what you need to do? Then call in the Startup Whisperer.”
by Prof Bruce September 13, 2010
Get the Startup Whisperermug.