{"id":182,"date":"2011-08-05T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/tech-jargon-lets-rebrand-email"},"modified":"2017-05-16T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:07:46","slug":"tech-jargon-lets-rebrand-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/08\/tech-jargon-lets-rebrand-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Jargon – Let’s Rebrand Email"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Internet<\/em> is now the Cloud<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Telecommuting<\/em> is now workshifting<\/em>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Virtual volunteering<\/em> is now microvolunteering<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What was done on USENET<\/em> in the 1980s and 90s is now crowdsourcing<\/em> on social media.<\/p>\n

So, since we love coming up with new jargon for old things, then it’s only a matter of time before someone comes up with a new name for email<\/em>, right?<\/p>\n

In honor of Friday, my favorite day of the week: How should we rebrand email?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Snarky\/humorous answers will be the most-welcomed. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Answer in the comments section here, or via Twitter. The first answer is from<\/p>\n

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ebarnhart<\/a> Erin Barnhart:<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Microstatic conversations<\/em><\/p>\n

And, FYI, this is how I posed this question to my Twitter feed, @jcravens42<\/a>: (see more re: How I Use Twitter<\/a>, including my frequently-used, frequently-followed tags)<\/p>\n

#<\/span>Telecommuting<\/span><\/a> is now #<\/span>workshifting<\/span><\/a>. #<\/span>Virtualvolunteering<\/span><\/a> is now #<\/span>microvolunteering<\/span><\/a>. How should we rebrand email?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tags<\/strong>: \u00a0<\/em>jargon, technology, terms, tech, cyberspace, language, communications, humor<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Internet is now the Cloud. Telecommuting is now workshifting. Virtual volunteering is now microvolunteering. What was done on USENET in the 1980s and 90s is now crowdsourcing on social media. So, since we love coming up with new jargon for old…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[1667,558,98,276,943,1665],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-relationsoutreach","tag-buzzword","tag-clarity","tag-communications","tag-language","tag-public-relations","tag-technobabble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-2W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}