Archiv für Dezember 2008

Die richtige PR und überhaupt Werbung ist auch vor Jahren schon Schwerpunktthema in Unternehmen gewesen, wie dieser Beitrag aus Sketchup mit Dieter Pfaff und den unvergessenen Dieter Krebs und Werner Kreindl zeigt.

Das Buch ist endlich zu haben. Vorerst nur direkt beim Verleger.

Worum geht’s in dem Buch?

Dinge, die man nicht wissen wollte, tauchen meist dann in einer Unterhaltung auf, wenn jemand weiterquatschen moechte, obwohl gerade keine interessanten Informationen zur Hand sind. Oder wenn es demjenigen ein Beduerfnis ist, jene loszuwerden. Oder wenn derjenige nicht weiss, dass er fuer sein Gegenueber gerade Grenzen ueberschreitet.

Sowas passiert alle Tage. Alle Tage knirschen Menschen mit den Zaehnen, verdrehen ihre Augen und kratzen sich am Hinterkopf, weil Gespraechspartner in ihnen Bilder ausloesen, die man nicht sehen wollte, die aber unweigerlich vor dem geistigen Auge auftauchen.

Wie man sich dagegen wehrt, scheint ein Feld zu sein, das noch kaum beackert wurde. Meist schweigt man, laesst seinen Blick ins Off schweifen, taeuscht einen Termin vor oder startet spontan einen Hustanfall.

Dieses Buch ist eine Reaktion auf derartige Dinge. Und nebenbei erklaert es die Faszination von Twitter. Wenn Sie es also leid sind, Twitter immer selbst zu erklaeren, dies waere eine Hilfsmittel .
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Carsten Herkenhoff – Too much information – Neues aus Twitter
ISBN 978-1-4092-4851-4

It’s one story between women and men that women always try to get their guys to sit on the toilet. Standing in front of it may be healthier for men but in most relationships it simply means more work for women to clean everything afterwards. Or they think it’s more hygienic within the bathroom as men sit down.
I think, my ladies, you won’t be able to educate men that way. Just have a look at scottymoon.

How robust men can be if the situation affords it.

They do not let anything disturb their way of life as long as they know what’s to be done. And they don’t give up plans as new preconditions come up. Even if it is in form of a smelly, brown, flabby substance quite near to them.

Somehow it would never ever occur to men in scotty’s situation to clean the toilet first before doing what they we’re planing to do as they enter the bathroom. Just think about how abstruse that thought is: Men considering about cleaning the toilet first before having a piss.

And is there still anyone to think education is the right thing to do here?

In 1968 John Cleese, the well known member of Monty Python, did a tv show called How to irritate people. There’s no need to say that he is a specialist, when it comes to combining the irritation of people with humour.
In 2008 Monty Python appeared in the internet personally for, well I don’t really know what for. But they are there. And they irritate and amuse as if nothing had happened in the last 40 years. How interesting to see there still so much room for them to act like that. John Cleese seems to be the most active one of them, having an own blog and an own twitter account.

And there he says things like this:

Ha?

‘Ha!’ means you know something. Something of interest. Something of importance? Something we need to know? Definitely something he’s hiding from his followers.

You see how easy it is to irritate people: Just hide some information from someone and show within a short utterance that there is some kind of information he might be interested in. That he could eventually be in need of. Even if he doesn’t have a tiny clue what that kind of information that could be.

John keeps that information for about 7 hours. And 7 hours in twitter are a lifetime. You can drive with your car from London to Paris in 7 hours.

Finally he comes back and…

enjoys keeping his secret.

You think I just made that up? Have a look: