BUZZWORD COMPLIANT DICTIONARY
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Karaoke PowerPoint: A presentation prepared by experts (generally technical types) to be given over and over again by non-experts (generally clueless managers or salespeople).
Nominated by Charlie Kufs

keepage: The opposite of garbage.
Nominated by Frank Shernoff

keyboard dyslexia: Typing all the correct letters, just in the wrong sequence. Occurs often when "dashing off" an e-mail response.

key learnings: An annoying variation of "lessons learned." The recap at the end of a project of what worked and didn't worked. Intended to prevent future teams from making the same mistakes -- but they do anyway.
Nominated by Fritz Liess

keypal: Pen pals are ancient history. E-mail and instant messaging have turned them into keypals. (Keyboards, get it?)

kicking it freestyle: A relaxed joyous state of mind or being. "How are you?" "I am kicking it freestyle at the moment!"
Nominated by Blake Henderson

kidult: Adults who “never grew up.” They act like kids and revel in being young at heart.
Nominated by Katie Tang

killer apps: Not to be confused with killer abs. It’s geek-speak for great software applications.
Nominated by Mel O'Leary

killerbite: A very clever -- but very brief -- statement. A killer sound bite. Usually uttered by a C-level exec to the media.
Nominated by Gary Wollin

kilobyte: Believe it or not, there was actually a time when people bragged about having a computer with 64 kilobytes of memory. Today, it’s a term that’s hardly worth defining. Everything is measured in megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes. But if you must know, a kilobyte is 1,024 bytes. It's used to measure memory capacity or storage space in a computer.

kiss-hap: The result when one of those little pecks on the cheek goes awry and you end up locking lips by mistake. Particularly awkward when it's with your best friend's husband.
Nominated by Gretchen Neal

kleptocrats: 1. Politicians who practice the transfer of money and power from the many to the few. 2. A ruling class of moneyed elite that usurps liberty, justice, sovereignty, and other democratic rights from the people. "Author Jim Hightower contends the USA is now a kleptocrat nation."
Nominated by Steve Downing

kleptonarcissist: Someone so vain that he/she compulsively steals glances of himself/herself in any nearby reflective surface - mirrors, polished cars, etc.
Nominated by Zac Babb

knee-mail: Religion's effort to give prayer a modern, high-tech image. "God answers knee-mail."
Nominated by Michael Troiano

knowledge management: It started as document imaging. Then gave way to document management, which in turn gave way to content management. It now has evolved into Knowledge Management. It’s an organization's ability to "manage" its "knowledge." Primarily this is done by pumping as much company information into a database (or databases) and developing a system that keeps track of it all. Supposedly, this allows everyone is the organization to take advantage of the collective knowledge of the company.
Nominated by Brian Finnegan

knowledge nuggets: The output of a knowledge-based organization after installing a multi-million dollar knowledge-based system.
Nominated by Mark Schaffer

knowledge retrieval: The heart of the new "knowledge management" systems, it's the process of tapping into a computer database to "retrieve" an answer instead of simply asking a fellow worker. You may find this unsettling, but such systems increase in value each time a fellow employee gets laid off.

knowledge transfer: To share one's unique knowledge on a subject or how something is done either by teaching or passing along documentation. Today's companies attempt to preserve that wisdom by using "knowledge databases" before the knowledge "transfers" or leaves the company with departing employees.
Nominated by Paul LaVigne

Kremlin-watching: A Cold War pastime with an updated, capitalistic twist. It's the attempt by analysts and the media to read the corporate tea leaves and predict who's being positioned to become a company's future CEO.
Nominated by Bart Liddon

krudzu: Any proliferating management fad -- or simply dumb concept -- that overtakes and eventually strangles a company or organization. (Pssst! Just like the artificial plant in the Sonic the Hedgehog comics.)
Nominated by Ethan Hirsh

kruegerware: A new generation of spyware that hijacks your browser and, like the villain of "Nightmare on Elm Street", can't be killed. It can steal your home page, lock you permanently into a triple X site, or ship all your Google queries to a dubious ad-driven alternative. And it’s next to impossible to get rid of. Like Freddy Krueger, it usually comes back.
Nominated by Eileen Blass

kudo loop: The seemingly endless e-mail loop that occurs when everyone in the office feels they must add their 2 cents to that "Great Job!" company-wide e-mail from the boss.
Nominated by Sarah Beatty