Today I'm still on the topic of creating a stronger community for professional onomasticians.
Here's just a taste of what I'm missing. How about you?
- A place to share preliminary theories and new practices with people that can appreciate them.
- New naming methods
- Novel classification of name types or ways of viewing onomastic bodies of work
- Examples of stuff that has been tried but doesn't work
- A publication or website that can tout the happenings in the thingnaming world:
- Naming Contracts up for Bid
- Major contracts won
- Completed contracts
- Case studies
A representative body that works to find ways to incorporate what we do into what marketers, publicists, and other busiess professionals do on a daily basis.
Access to research on naming trends (and those that do it.)
A discussion on how to objectively or subjectively evaluate the quality of names and identities.
Access to the names, interests, and contact information of fellow thingnamers.
Contests and awards for naming
...all that stuff that I moaned about yesterday.
Joining marketing groups, PR roundtables, and branding forums dominated by issues that have very little to do with what I do for a living is a fact of life. Direct mail, press releases, and logo design are all factors to be considered in the naming of a thing, but aren't what I (or likely you) want to spend weeks discussing. (Note that I do find these groups valuable - but more as a way to build business and stay involved in parallel industries than to address core issues in my field.)
If
Mars can create a bag of
only green M&Ms then we should be able to create a forum that is comprised of only the good stuff too, right?
Where is my bag of candy?
...or who (in addition to the very capable
Nancy Friedman) will help me pick out all the stuff we don't like?
(I have no clue what has happened to my formatting of bullets and the like. It seems quite messed up and I don't know how to fix it.)
Tate Linden
Principal Consultant
Stokefire Consulting Group
703-778-9925
