A conference room by any other name…
There is perhaps no more important decision a company can make than the name of its conference rooms.
All right, perhaps we jest, but some companies are spending a lot of time choosing the perfect name of their conference rooms, names that reflect their corporate culture, says Rupal Parekh with Advertising Age.
“If you look online, you’ll find all of these threads that are basically people that seem like they are in a state of panic, begging for help with naming their conference rooms,” Parekh said.
Some well known companies don’t seem to have much trouble naming their meeting spaces. Facebook, “knowing that they have a culture that is all about learning from their mistakes,” has named theirs after massive mess-ups in history. Case in point: one is named ‘subprime-mortgage.’
Other companies ponder choosing themes like characters played by Matt Damon (proposed on a Reddit thread) or members of the Wu-Tang Clan (proposed on a Yelp thread).
Others go for the inside joke by naming the rooms after employees who have worked at the company the longest (The Richards Group in Dallas) or a mashup of foods and band names (hence, Slayer Cake over at Etsy).
Here at Marketplace, we keep it simple with “The Large Conference Room” and “The Small Conference Room.”
Parekh says she empathizes — Advertising Age calls one of theirs “The Green Conference Room” because the walls are green. “Maybe it means we’re just not as fun.”
But not anymore…
We’re looking for your help in renaming our two conference rooms. You tweeted us @MarketplaceAPM, Facebooked, and left plenty of comments with your submissions!
Vote for your favorite conference room names in our poll — deadline for voting is Friday!
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