Buzzwords aren't necessarily meaningless; they just have to be overused and misused in such a way that most people don't know what they mean or think they mean something they don't. It helps if such words are catchy. See Y2K.

We were considering doing a live webcast for an event that the company was hosting. Our boss had us bring in a number of third-party companies to discuss the implementation.

In the grand tradition of all marketing people giving a presentation to tech people, the visitors whipped out their PowerPoint-laden laptop and started telling us about their partnerships and stock price. They definitely went overboard on the corpspeak, prompting Dave the Webmaster, who is a bomb diggetty gearhead, to say,

I see your lips moving, but all I hear is bzzzzzzz.

Marketing charm school doesn't prepare people for a reaction like that.

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