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How to win Buzzword Bingo

You’ve been in those boring business meetings, where the entire office gathers because they’re told to… only to do everything you can to keep from falling asleep because the people making the presentation have absolutely no idea how to make a presentation, let alone make one that’s interesting.

Let’s face it, not everyone is skilled at talking in front of other people.  And even fewer are able to get their points across if they can’t read their Powerpoint presentation verbatim, slide by boring slide.

The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak
The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak

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The most desirable online daters are white men, Asian women

Web Watch knows quite a few couples who met online, fell in love, and are happily married.  Let’s face it — in today’s world, sometimes the only way to meet new people is to do so online.  Friends of friends, hobby discussion boards, sports websites — if you have an interest in a particular topic, you’re going to find someone with similar tastes.

But when it comes to using actual dating sites, there are some people who may be at a significant advantage over others, and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about that.

Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match
Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match

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The worst charity in America

One thing that everyone should do at some point in their lives is give back a little bit.

How you give is entirely up to you.   Some choose to contribute money or time to their church, while others participate with local healthcare or children-oriented organizations.

Maybe you take the time to help build a house, or do yardwork for someone who is unable to do it for themselves.

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

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The Most Popular Books of All Time

Reading books will never be the same in today’s Internet age. Everybody wants things fast, fast and new, new.

But sometimes a book captures the world’s imagination, and everybody upon everybody feels the need to go out and buy it (or borrow it from the local library), curl up in a cozy sofa, and escape into a fantasy world.

Watership Down
Watership Down

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11 Rules for Dealing with Identical Twins

One of many college-aged guys’ bucket lists is to “hook up with twins”.

Really?  What could be in your wildest dreams that you would think that twins would want YOU?  And why is it always that a guy wants to hook up with twin girls?  Where’s all the fantasy stories about a girl wanting to hook up with twin boys?

Twin Boys Gift Set
Twin Boys Gift Set

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FAIL tops the list of Top Words for 2013 (whoops – it’s really “404”)

Language is a funny thing.

Have you ever wondered how some terms become so well known, so indoctrinated, that you could travel around the world and hear the same words and phrases and know exactly what they mean?  Who knew that cab drivers everywhere would know what “fast, fast” means?

Words on a Shirt
Words on a Shirt

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The number one reason couples don’t have sex on their wedding night

Web Watch has been invited to many weddings – some, more than once (we have some rather prolific marriage-minded friends, you see).

But we do have a ritual that we try to go through with for every wedding – and that’s to leave a special “wedding night gift” for the happy couple at their hotel.

We know how stressful weddings can be for some couples, so we usually try to include items in the gift basket that they may have forgotten to pack for themselves. You can only imagine what that basket may contain.

Thoughtful, aren’t we?

Wedding Planning - The 7 Mistakes Most Brides Regret For The Rest Of Their Lives Within One Week Of Their Wedding
Wedding Planning
The 7 Mistakes Most Brides Regret For The Rest Of Their Lives Within One Week Of Their Wedding

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It’s North vs South in personality wars. (The West? Not so much)

Web Watch was having a conversation the other day about what it was like to conduct business – sales, really – in various parts of the country.

One of our friends chimed in that there is a distinct difference between business styles when he visits New York and other northern locales compared to when he travels to the south.  In the south things are more relaxed, personal, and a bit slower paced. People tend to care about people first, then they’ll get down to business.

Visits out to the West?  Those, he said, were full of feel-good, granola folks.

Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
Do What You Are:
Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type