Names for Social Networks
March 5th, 2008 by Chief NutThe first steps in starting a new company or new online venture is to establish a brand and then come up with a fabulous name that’s; defensible (from a trademark perspective), available as a “.com”, memorable, easy to spell, visual, easy to visualize and is – this is the tough one – powerful.
I’ll usually start a client out with the task of coming up with “seed words” (words that start the brainstorming process) that tap directly into the concepts that have meaning to them. We’re in the process of possibly establishing a new social network development company and, as you would expect, we’ll need to establish an awesome name.
This morning was my shot at coming up with our own seed words for this new venture. The list is pretty awesome and, if you ever find yourself needing alternative ways of saying “network” or “group”, you’ll definitely find one here.
- Assembly
- Batallion
- Batch
- Bevy
- Bunch
- Camp
- Citizenry
- Clan
- Clique
- Cluster
- Company
- Congregation
- Coterie
- Covey
- Crew
- Crowd
- Fellowship
- Flock
- Fold
- Folk
- Gaggle
- Gang
- Gathering
- Group
- Grouping
- Heap
- Herd
- Hoi Palloi
- Hookup
- Inner Circle
- Kin
- Kindred
- Kingdom
- Lot
- Mankind
- Mass
- Masses
- Mess
- Mickle
- Mob
- Muckle
- Multitude
- Pack
- Party
- Peck
- People
- Phratry
- Plentitude
- Pod
- Pride
- Race
- Raft
- Ring
- Slaughter
- Slew
- Spate
- Squad
- Team
- Throng
- Troop
- Wad
- Business
- Stand
Community? This is actually the term we use passionately for our employees, clients, and vendors.
We debated on not using it becaue of its semi-blandness, but we just could not find a word that fit the message we were trying to convey.
That being said, we are now struggling to come up with a word to use as the indviduals in the community, especially the “hall of famers” in our community.
Comment by Jason Moore — March 5, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
“Mankind???!!!” Hey, Kev and team, let’s think in terms of humankind and/or humanity. Just my two nuts, er, cents.
Comment by Marirose Walker — March 12, 2008 @ 9:24 pm
“Bevy” was appreciated by these folks up in Seattle:
http://www.bevyinc.com
I had an opportunity to work with Kevin F while he was in the Northeast.
Comment by Thomas Purcell — December 2, 2008 @ 8:23 am