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From time to time, this magazine can only stand back in amazement at the way that some of those in this field of KM express themselves. We were particularly pleased with one sentence from a company that described its latest product as being "in the vanguard in creating pull communications culture." This described the new…Oh we can't tell you what to save the author's blushes, but don't such honeyed words make you want to install it straightaway? For reasons we haven't yet thought of, there is a flood (well OK at least two) of interest in meetings. First there was Video Arts with their stuff about meeting menaces and now a communication consultancy Alive comes storming to our attention with results from its survey which shocked us with the news 'regular meetings take up more time than they are worth and are a forum for office games'. But in what we thought was a rather contradictory finding 83 per cent of you evidently think regular internal meetings could actually help you do your job.