At NoMoreBoringMeetings.com, we tend to make up words. Mostly because we find it necessary to have our own vocabulary to express the distinct work we do, and the exceptional tools we help you access.

So that we're all on the same page....we give you this quick reference dictionary:

• Architecture of participation [ahr-ki-tek-cher of pahr-tis-uh-pey-shuhn]: an infrastructure such as our Boring-Roaring Storyboard that allows input and insight to be easily and openly shared among participants. Based on the concept from the book "Mavericks at Work" that "nobody is as smart as everybody," our Storyboard and entire business concept taps a collective intelligence. After all, collaboration is the best means of solving our most challenging problems--come join in!
  
• Blame Storm [bleym stawrm]: What happens back at the office after a boring meeting: "The Marketing Department went on a Blame Storm, telling their VP that the retreat was a waste of time and resources."
  
• Boredom Buster [bawr-duhm buhst-er]: When you tap NoMoreBoringMeetings.com, you are automatically christened a Boredom Buster...a Maverick Meeting Manager on the inside track of building meetings that engage, excite and ignite real results.
  
• Collective Meeting Intelligence--CMI [kuh-lek-tiv meet-ing in-tel-i-juhns]: Based on the truism that all of us are is smarter than one of us: we at NoMoreBoringMeetings.com have given you the means to share your most excruciatingly boring and most amazingly UNboring meeting experiences at the Boring-Roaring Storyboard . Contribute now-it's Collective Meeting Intelligence in action!
  
• Continuous Partial Attention [kuhn-tin-yoo-uhs pahr-shuhl in-tel-i-juhns]: A term noted in a Fast Company article: "...We drive around talking into our Bluetooth-connected phones, engrossed in conversation but absent from the rest of the world. The result is what Linda Stone, a former Microsoft researcher, calls ‘continuous partial attention.' We lose our sense of engagement, ultimately compromising our awareness of underlying concerns and our ability to take care of them. Hence, obesity, family violence, and pollution--unsustainable outcomes, to be sure."
  
• Emphatitudes [em-fat-i- tyoods]: A term coined by Boredom Busters Brian Walter & Ken Boynton, meaning platitudes stated emphatically. We've all heard them at countless meetings. A corporate executive may state-emphatically, of course: "It's crucial we take this metric to a higher level to differentiate ourselves to the customer." And the audience response? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............... Emphatitudes foster the audience's cynicism, and beg to be replaced by specific, actionable points and meatier content.
  
• Infotainment [in-fo- teyn-muhnt]: Entertainment about YOUR organization's information-always relevant, on message, and fun...produced and performed by the Extreme Meeting Team.
  
  
• Meeting Message Management MMM [meet-ing mes-ij man-ij-muhnt]: Our strategic methodology that bridges all key meeting goals, communications, theme and logistics to ensure your audience learns and brings back to work the most important belief and behavior change. The process also helps meeting participants become exceptionally clear about what they are to do differently and more effectively after the meeting. In other words, how to be more productive and successful. Imagine the brainpower and meeting investment return you tap when everyone-from your leadership to your keynoters to AV techs-are all on board with your Big Meeting Messages.
  
• Open-Space Meeting [oh-puhn speys meet-ing]: According to Wikipedia, this is a generic term describing a wide variety of different styles of meeting in which participants define the agenda with a relatively rigorous process, and may adjust it as the meeting proceeds. A large meeting of this sort is called an open space conference or UNConference (see below for further definition).
  
• ROM: Return on Meeting [ri-turn awn meet-ing]: An exceptionally useful acronym coined by Boredom Busting Partners Brian Walter & Ken Boynton, Brian and Ken believe that quantifying meeting return on investment can be nearly impossible, and not nearly as telling and useful as return on MEETING. More and more meeting conversations these days begin with the question of "What's our ROI?" Those asking the question want the answer to be a number. Yet the likelihood of a $150,000 meeting generating, say, a $300,000 return on investment is all but impossible. Instead, a conversation about Return on Meeting (ROM) makes more sense, as we examine the deeper purpose of the meeting and the beliefs we're aiming to alter via the meeting. A more useful reframing of the question becomes: what kind of meeting must we hold to create the critical belief and knowledge shift among our people? And what is the true cost of our audience NOT believing or thinking that?
  
• Script Prescription [script pri-skrip-shuhn]: An integral NoMoreBoringMeetings.com service through which we work closely with meeting planning staff and / or your executives, to write, "doctor," and / or edit the scripts of your internal speakers. We challenge the messaging from the audience's point of view... so that the resulting material spoken at the live meeting ensures the audience gains insights that they didn't previously already know, truly understand, fully appreciate, or get excited about. In other words, lots of memorable "a-ha's." See Communication Consulting page for more details.
  
• Un-Bore [uhn bohr]: to create a meeting experience that's so compelling--so roaring--it's an SRO show that attendees would never miss.
  
• UN-Meeting [uhn meet-ing]: High-touch, high-impact ways to communicate critical meeting messages, insight and inspiration —without a big group meeting. Going well beyond standard teleconferences and webinars, UN-Meetings build engagement, morale, commitment and motivation. Contact us for details tailored to your situation and audience.