19-09-2011, 10:53
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
no team (6th Gear)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,935
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Re: Scouting in a nutshell?
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Originally Posted by NullEntity
This will be my second season as subteam lead of Scouting. I always manage to get myself into a situation where I have to try and explain who we are and what we do. Does anyone have any effective ways to do that? I'm no good, and, honestly, it bugs me.
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Here is what you do:
You ask your consumers what they want to know; and then you go get that information for them.
The devil can be in the details, but the fundamental concept is pretty simple.
Blake
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Words/phrases  I avoid: basis, mitigate, leveraging, transitioning, impact (instead of affect/effect), facilitate, programmatic, problematic, issue (instead of problem), latency (instead of delay), dependency (instead of prerequisite), connectivity, usage & utilize (instead of use), downed, functionality, functional, power on, descore, alumni (instead of alumnus/alumna), the enterprise, methodology, nomenclature, form factor (instead of size or shape), competency, modality, provided(with), provision(ing), irregardless/irrespective, signage, colorized, pulsating, ideate
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