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#177175 05/30/2008 3:17 AM
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Another new (to me) coinage: I saw in our paper the other day a notice about a free seminar. The notice ended by saying that if people couldn't come to it, they could attend it virtually at xxx.xxx.com/webinar.

Anybody else heard this one?

Jackie #177176 05/30/2008 3:59 AM
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I *knew I'd seen it somewhere recently.

-ron o.

tsuwm #177179 05/30/2008 9:20 AM
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Aye! where did .. -mil o.. go?
Hope he may be well and one day returning.

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Jackie #177180 05/30/2008 10:03 AM
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 Originally Posted By: Jackie


Anybody else heard this one?


I get it all the time in work-related emails. Being proactive I'll say that it's an easily understood word for a relatively new, previously unnamed concept. If you need any more rationalization for it, tough.

Faldage #177181 05/30/2008 12:34 PM
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I understand it, but I don't like the feel of it. seems too busi-speak to me.

visions of plaid jackets and all that.


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Buffalo Shrdlu #177182 05/30/2008 2:38 PM
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 Originally Posted By: etaoin
visions of plaid jackets and all that.


visions of unshaven underwear-clad couch potatoes on their laptops...

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For my previous job, I planned and ran a few webinars for which I had my own WebEx account. (As part of my job, it was just something else I had to do, and I didn't really marvel at the word at that time.) It seems a goodly portmanteau word and useful.


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zmjezhd #177184 05/30/2008 4:19 PM
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I've heard and used it for quite some time. Google News Archive has hits back to 1998.

Myridon #177185 05/30/2008 6:08 PM
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how about iNar? or Internar? or Semiweb?


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Buffalo Shrdlu #177186 05/30/2008 6:13 PM
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Semiweb

... or totally tubular ...


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twosleepy #177188 05/30/2008 11:14 PM
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 Originally Posted By: twosleepy
 Originally Posted By: etaoin
visions of plaid jackets and all that.


visions of unshaven underwear-clad couch potatoes on their laptops...


I would imagine that most people would attend the seminar from their computers at work. I suppose if they normally wear plaid jackets at work or go to work unshaven in their underwear ...


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