The Business of Naming

[patchfire]

How do you pick a name? I don't mean for kids, I'm good at that. Like... groups, organizations, what have you, especially if you want a good acronym? I firmly believe that a good name is half the battle in terms of marketing and publicity.

But... I wish there was a name generator or something.

Comments

[raving_liberal]

Pick an acronym and reverse engineer it. After all, that's how Jon came up with Teaching Women Awareness Tactics for his women's self-defense course (they didn't actually go w/ that name, of course).

[patchfire]

Don't worry, Sam just suggested I call it "Satan's Arsenal," which, you know, makes a pretty bad name for ANYTHING apart from a video game, maybe.

[raving_liberal]

What are you trying to name, anyway? I am a good namer.

[patchfire]

Well. I don't have a good term for it. Basically, like I mentioned the other day, I'd love to get together some homeschooler academic-type competition teams. Now, obviously, I don't want to run them all myself :P but a lot of places require kids to be affliated with a 'homeschool organization,' so - I had the thought of basically creating an umbrella group solely to serve as a clearinghouse of sorts for academic-type competitions. There are already resources in place for athletic teams, and basic supplementary classes, but so far, I can't find anything regarding any of the academic type stuff. So, in theory, I need a name for it. (Like I said on facebook, I'm a big picture person, therefore, I think I need a name before anythign else. I might even be right.)

[imaginarycircus]

I make a list of words that are appropriate and then start poking in dictionaries and thesauruses.

[primroseburrows]

Fortunately this has never been an issue for me because I suck at acronyms. At work they're always using them--we'll get one in a doctor's note that references some obscure Norwegian pancreatic disorder, or somesuch. Like we'd KNOW that. I don't even know the usual ones (like, what the heck does mp3 stand for, anyway?)