Naming the project

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Naming the project

• Some ideas to get you started plus a bit more
  detail on one or two of my favourites

Key to Ideas
Nice
Cool
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Ideas

• Names of Roman / Greek Gods / Planets
• Names of Birds
• Names of Dances
• Functional Names
• Based on what the Intranet Portal can do
• E.g. find, search, information, productivity
• Conceptual Names
• Based on what the Intranet Portal achieves
• E.g. connecting, between, sharing
• Abstract Names
• Based on how the Intranet Portal makes you feel
• I.e. feelings, emotions, sense of belonging
• E-Words
• My derivatives

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The Intranet Programme

• Extensibility
• As the Intranet will be a programme, your choice
  of name should ideally be part of a set of names
  for a number of projects that may follow on
• Hence, the suggestion for Roman / Greek Gods /
  Planets or Birds / Dances
• Illustration
• If you called the Programme Project Jupiter
  (father of the gods) then daughter project names
  suggest themselves easily
• Project Mercury (son of Jupiter)

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Greek / Roman Gods
Greek Gods are named first, followed by their
Roman equivalents

• Hades / Pluto
• Hephaistos / Vulcan
• Hera / Juno
• Herakles / Hercules
• Hermes / Mercury
• Hestia / Vesta
• Hours / Horae
• Kronos / Saturn
• Odysseus / Ulysses
• Pan / Faunus
• Persephone / Proserpina
• Poseidon / Neptune
• Zeus / Jupiter

• Aphrodite / Venus
• Ares / Mars
• Artemis / Diana
• Athene / Minerva
• Demeter / Ceres
• Erinyes / Furiae
• Eris / Discordia
• Eros / Cupid
• Fates / Morae
• Graces / Charities

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Planets and (more interesting) moons

• Saturn
• Titan
• Atlas
• Prometheus
• Hyperion
• Neptune
• Nereid
• Proteus
• Triton
• Uranus
• Ariel
• Oberon
• Pluto

• Sun / Solar
• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Moon
• Mars
• Phobos
• Deimos
• Jupiter
• Europa
• Ganymede
• Callisto
• Thebe

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Project Mercury
Messenger of the gods, god of science and
commerce, known to the Greeks as Hermes. Son of
Jupiter. Mercury has come to inherit two
personalities -- Hermes the messenger and
trickster is the Gemini expression of Mercury
Thoth, the Egyptian deity whose task was to order
the workings of the universe is the Virgo
expression.
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Names of Birds

• Blackbird
• Bluejay
• Bunting
• Condor
• Eagle
• Egret
• Falcon
• Finch
• Flamingo
• Harrier
• Hawk
• Ibis

• Kestrel
• Kingfisher
• Kite
• Magpie
• Nighthawk
• Osprey
• Raven
• Redwing
• Skylark
• Swallow
• Swift
• Warbler

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Names of Dances

• Bolero
• Charleston
• Flamenco
• Foxtrot
• Hustle
• Lambada
• Mambo
• Merengue

• Polka
• Quickstep
• Rumba
• Salsa
• Samba
• Swing
• Tango
• Waltz

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Functional Names

• Intranet project
• Input
• Inform
• Connect
• Essentials
• Everything
• Unite
• Onestop

• Highway
• Gateway
• Link
• Locate
• Club
• Café
• Desktop
• Portal

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Conceptual Names

• Discovery
• Quest
• Odyssey
• Voyager
• Enterprise
• Village
• Unity

• Involve
• Evolve
• Relate
• Relay
• Tartan (as in clans)
• Core

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Abstract Names

• Essence
• Flavour
• Trace
• élan
• Onestop
• Joy
• Wizard
• Genie

• Bliss
• Ecstasy
• Active
• alive / live
• Impulse
• Pulse
• Spirit
• Voice

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• élan n. F f.
• Enthusiastic vigour and liveliness.
• Distinctive style or flair.

élan
Desire Fervour Impulse Urge Desire
Enthusiasm Vivacity Dash
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e-Word Names

• expedite
• express
• eureka
• ether
• entropy
• enterprise
• enhance
• endure
• enforce
• engage
• engine
• enchant
• encore
• endear

• endow
• enamel
• enamour
• empathy
• empire
• emblem
• eclipse
• ecstasy
• echo
• edge
• elation
• exodus
• excite
• elate / elation

• enlist
• easel
• eden
• ego
• enthrall
• epiphany
• equinox
• envoy
• everest
• euphoria

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My Derivatives

• myABCco
• myportal
• mygateway
• mystuff
• mywindow
• mygenie
• mywizard
• mypage
• myworld

• mywish
• mycommand
• myslave
• myguide
• mywand
• myquest
• mylink
• myhome
• myplace