The game idea of bullshit bingo is simple:
Now, what we can do is to issue some new, Europe specific, game cards. It would also be a good tool to promote ET at conferences. I'd volunteer to hand them out to the participants of conferences, seminars, round table and panel discussions in Brussels.
Anybody got good photo shop skills to give it a try? "The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819
I can design and write a program that will either print out the words (or phrases) as a free-form card, as Ritter suggests, or these words can be associated with a particular subject, or these words can be associated with a particular person: journalist, politican, pundit. Then by backtracking the particular person can be associated with the Thinktank, Public Policy Group, originating the phrase and the corporate ownership (funders) of those TT/PPG's. The advantage would be one system could construct a range of cards from the very specific to very general on each different axis of information retrieval.
I'll get that done and report back.
I'd guess A5 is a good size?
I'll mess with it this evening if I get a chance.
The more key words we pick up to customise it, the better. (We should aim for 25, although we might not need so many, I think A5 will be more rectangular than the posted example.)
A few spring to mind so far from Jerome's complaints:
Protectionist. Fraying. Sclerotic.
Most of the standard models for presenting Brand Stragies hinge around these concepts, even if not the exact words.
IMHO a far worse sin is to let visually illiterate people loose with Powerpoint. I prefer Keynote myself, but whatever you use, your presentation is only there to remind your audience where you are in the argument. Simplicity is all, and max. 5 lines. How many times have I seen the entire script up on the screen?
If you don't remember your argument, you shouldn't be there.
Only snacks and soft drinks are sold by technology - oh, and maybe sushi conveyors - it is people who sell things. By making people watch the screen instead of the speaker, you lose contact with them. You can't be me, I'm taken
Sometimes I think I should have worked in a sock factory ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken