Happy Thursday All! I came across a new word (well, new to me) the other day that I HAVE to share. I taught a section on "wikis" in Tech Daze for the last few years and I never knew this little factoid. The word "wiki" I used to tell our agents, stood for "What I Know Is". I went on to explain the community collaboration involved and of course, showed them Wikipedia, the Inman News wiki and my CB training wiki. Well, imagine my geek world exploding when I learned a short 48 hours ago that "What I Know Is" is actually a backronym! Not knowing the term, "backronym" I quickly wikied the word.
A backronym, according to Wikipedia ..."A backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is constructed "after the fact" from a previously existing word or abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym."
HOW FUN!
So what does "wiki" mean? Well, nothing. The word "wiki wiki" means "fast" in Hawaiian (again according to Wikipedia). Crazy right?
Okay, so the word on the street is that as of Friday, June 27th our application for the Diamond offices name change to CB Hearthside will be "filed" with the state. I'm told this means that the Diamond offices can now operate as CB Hearthside. Exciting news!
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