When Acronyms CAN be useful… May 10, 2006
Posted by David Petherick in : Authority, Emedia, Managing Data, News , add a commentI have never been a fan of acronyms. Until now…
ASAP for As Soon As Possible makes sense, not least for its brevity - it is short and to the point, but the over-use of acronyms can simply confuse and make real meaning difficult to see, and is a ploy regularly used by those numpties who prefer to converse in ManagementSpeak and GobbledyGook.
However, a friend from Amsterdam, Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, blogged yesterday at the Fleck Blog about something that really got my attention: the use of acronyms to add meaning to messages, specifically email messages. That was something new…
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