The Name of the Intranet
Veröffentlicht am September 30, 2008 by Stephan Schillerwein
Inspired by Step Two’s post „Naming the Intranet“ I decided to finally publish the list of intranet names that I’ve been ‚collecting‘ over some time. It can be found in the top-level navigation menu under „Intranet Names“ in this blog.
As commenting does not work on that page, please post any input to the list (additional intranet names that you are aware of, errors in the list, …) by using the comments function below.
Thank you!
Mittwoch, Oktober 1, 2008
Intriguing idea. My last intranet was called the ‚Information Management System‘. Very grandiose title but my users just called it ‚IMS‘ (rhymes with ‚rims‘) and so a brand was born.
Mittwoch, Oktober 1, 2008
Thank you, Patrick. I was often asked by participants of the intranet trainings I’m giving, what a „good name“ for an intranet would be. So I started putting together this list to give them an idea what names other organisations use.
Will add yours to the list – thanks.
Donnerstag, Oktober 2, 2008
The Victorian State Library calls their intranet „The Fridge“ as in stick it on the fridge
Donnerstag, Oktober 2, 2008
Thanks for that, Kate. That’s a good analogy you’re using there!
Freitag, Oktober 3, 2008
Hey, heres a few from companies I’ve worked with in the past:
„Energy“ – to inspire energy, and surprisingly, from an energy supply company.
„Momentum“ – No stopping us now…or that was the theory. Another energy supply company
„K.I.S“ – Keep It Simple. A printing firm.
Freitag, Oktober 3, 2008
Cool stuff, StuNZ. Thanks a lot!
Freitag, Oktober 3, 2008
In the BBC we call our intranet ‚Gateway‘ and that’s whatever refers to it as. Dunno why it’s called Gateway, but you can see where we’re going with that. Some smarty pants thought that one up long ago….
Samstag, Oktober 4, 2008
Hi Phil & thank you. ‚Gateway‘ is a great way of describing the single-point-of-entry character of an intranet without having to use the threadbare and spongy term ‚portal‘. Must have been someone really smart… 😉
Montag, Oktober 6, 2008
I like your collection – very useful!
In my company (WOLF THEISS, a law firm with approx. 600 employees in CEE/SEE) we organized a firm-wide internal name contest for our new intranet that was launched in March 2008. We had stunning 377 suggestions. Finally, we had online-votings and it turned out people liked „floW“ best.
I love the name floW as it is connected to our company name (Wolf backwards) AND highlights what our intranet offers – a constant flow of information and communication.
The name contest was a perfect vehicle for promoting the new intranet. And now we have a real „brand“ that people feel connected to. So, I can only recommend such a name contest.
Montag, Oktober 6, 2008
Thank you, Chris. That’s a real fortunate cirumstance and connection to your name and the intranet’s nature.
Name contests are really useful also in respect to making employees aware that each and every one of them is (or at least should be) in some way involved with the intranet.
I’ve never come across a participation rate of more than 60% as in your case, though. Congratulations!
Mittwoch, Oktober 8, 2008
Our ‚old‘ intranet was called „Plaza“; the new one, launched last Friday, still has no name but its working title is „Lighthouse“.
Donnerstag, Oktober 30, 2008
Some I’ve come across…
ANZ Bank – Max
Coles Group – Connect
Sensis – inSite
Freitag, Oktober 31, 2008
Thanks Claudia and Stewart! Added these to the list.
Montag, November 3, 2008
A good one is „Milkyway“ for a company called Fonterra who produce milk.
Mittwoch, November 12, 2008
The intranet at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants is called BRAIN (Berger Research and Information Network).
Sonntag, März 1, 2009
My last company called theirs ‚Inside‘, which is pretty good.
Others I like are:
• Core
• Focus
• The Hoard
• Alexandria (as in Library of…)
• Skynet (though it’s a little scary)
• Father
Freitag, Mai 22, 2009
Australia Post named it’s intranet: Postnet
Sonntag, Mai 31, 2009
Our new intranet at Royal National Institute for Blind People is called iSite. The old intranet was called Iris. I quite liked that but the intranet was disliked so no-one wanted to keep the old name. Vision related puns seem unavoidable, given RNIB’s subject matter.
Dienstag, Juni 2, 2009
Thank you, Karen. That’s (one of) the great things with a named Intranet – you do get a second chance to build a positive association. If it’s just „the intranet“, it’s usually much harder to eliminate an existing negative relation to it.
Mittwoch, Juni 3, 2009
Our lawfirm’s former CEO was a real Trekker. Our current Intranet is Voyager. This really works well, as the name is unique enough that it doesn’t occur in normal business conversation.
Mittwoch, Juni 24, 2009
Hallo,
unser Intranet der DAK heisst schlicht und einfach DAKintranet.
In der momentanen Ausbaustufe befassen wir uns in einem Projekt mit der Weiterentwicklung hin zum Wissensmanagement. Synonym hierbei ist DAKwissen bzw. DAKw!ssen.
Gruß, Stephan Büttner
Dienstag, Juli 7, 2009
Hi Stephan.
Thanks for you comment on my recent post. Fabulous list of names. Is a resource I am bound to use and refer others to in the future.
A couple of additions for your list perhaps.
Name: The Lounge
Company: Tab Limited
Name: eon (acronym for Entertaining Opportunity Network)
Company: Tabcorp Holdings
Happy for you to use may name as the source.
Great blog by the way. Will be a keen follower or your feed from now on.
Dienstag, Juli 14, 2009
Thanks for this listing. We are looking for a name for a new intranet. The current Vertex intranet is called VIC – Vertex Intranet Centre and we have a subsidiary intranet called infonet.
Donnerstag, Juli 30, 2009
USAA calls their internal website „Connect“
Donnerstag, September 10, 2009
I suggested to my employer to have an employee contest to name their new intranet site, as this was what a former employer had done. When I worked for Fun Sun Vacations, they had named their intranet site: The Beach House which was a real fun way to catch up on local company news.
Freitag, September 11, 2009
Love that one! Too few intranets manage to build positive associations attached to them. Thanks a lot for sharing!
Freitag, März 19, 2010
i workin an hardware company…. pliz suggest what name is best for a hardware company.. what u guys doing is marvelous
Freitag, März 19, 2010
Well, hardware sure is a wide field and often the company name or other organisation specific elements are more important for the name.
Maybe you’d want to consider running an internal name contest as this in many cases helps raise awareness plus gets you many good suggestions from the perspective of those who use the (future?) intranet.
Mittwoch, April 7, 2010
Very interesting blog post thank you for writing it I just added your blog to my bookmarks and will check back.
Montag, April 12, 2010
good morning, superb post.
Donnerstag, Mai 20, 2010
I manage the intranet at David Evans Associates Inc. in Portland, Ore., which is called Merlin. Comes complete with tiny animated wizard.
Donnerstag, Mai 20, 2010
Great collection!
Here’s ours: The British Columbia Public Service intranet is called @Work.
Freitag, Mai 21, 2010
One for the list, our employee intranet at KCTCS, simply called „thePoint“. Launched in March, 2009, it is based on SharePoint 2007.
KCTCS is a mouthful of an acronym for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, which is even more of a mouthful. Coming up with a brand and name for the intranet for our employees had just a few requirements, one of which was „make it simple and not a mouthful“. Basing it on the SharePoint name and concept made the decision easy.
Dienstag, Juli 13, 2010
Here’s a challenging one. Need Portal name for Home Health Care organization! Any suggestions?
Mittwoch, Juli 14, 2010
Not sure if I fully understand the nature of our business, Trish, but here’re some quick ideas :
– iGuardian
– iCare
– Careline
– Homeplace
– MyHome
Mittwoch, Juli 14, 2010
For WWF our intranet is called Connect.
Dienstag, September 14, 2010
Looking for a name for our intranet, we are Leisure Connection Ltd and like the idea of connections, or connect or even C2U (connect to you)…
Freitag, Oktober 8, 2010
I neeed a name 4 my company intranet plzzz suggest some name…my comapny is related to construction n oil n Ga$$$ offshore projects.
Montag, Oktober 18, 2010
I managed „Innovo“ for Misys Global Banking Systems, a name given to it in 2005.
The intranet for HSBC UK was once known as „Let’s Connect“ and is now simply „UKi“ as a contraction of UK Intranet.
Montag, Oktober 18, 2010
@ashish: what about something with „energy“, like e.g. energy.net, PowerNet, … or an analogy like „The Well“?
Mittwoch, Oktober 20, 2010
Our’s is called UNHCR-net (intranet for the United Nations High Commissioner for the Refugees)
Freitag, November 12, 2010
Working on an Intranet for a Scientific Research Organization with 700 staff. Any ideas on a name?
NB. Scientists are unlikely to be enthusiastic participants in an intranet name competition :)) but will give it a shot still.
Donnerstag, Januar 6, 2011
Here are some we’ve been responsible for:
Truffles – Ogilvy & Mather – 1997 (Comes from a David Ogilvy quote „we pursue knowledge the way pigs pursue truffles“)
Sparkle – De Beers Forevermark – 2003? (the diamond connection is obvious but it is in fact an acronym for „System Providing Access to Research Knowledge Learning & Education“ the name applied originally to a Lotus Notes intranet that we replaced in 2003)
the pool – rmg:connect – 2004
The AVenue – Added Value – 2007
Henri – Nestle – 2009 (as in Henri Nestle the founder of Nestle)
With the exception of the pool (rmg:connect was rolled into JWT in 2009) all are still in use today with these names.
Mittwoch, Dezember 21, 2011
kindly provide me a list of names for the company’s intranet .
my company known as fourth dimensions technologies where we are solution providers for IT infrastructure…..
Dienstag, Januar 31, 2012
i m looking for a name for my intranet website….
pls suggest me some good names for that…..my company is an IT company…pls suggest me for that……………
Dienstag, Januar 31, 2012
Hi Jacobs and Hitesh: no inspiration from the list you find on this site?
@Jacobs: For a company called „fourth dimensions technologies“ I could imagine something like „The 5th Dimension“ or simply „5D“ as a name…
@Hitesh: please provide more info – IT is a broad field…
Dienstag, April 3, 2012
Our current Intranet is called ‚Inside‘, and our new company-wide Intranet will be called ‚The loop‘ – as we need to keep everyone across our business in the loop.
Dienstag, Mai 1, 2012
Nice blog! Lots of inspiration for intranet names. I’m astounded by how many folks say their intranets have the same name as the one in my co. Hopefully I can come up with something more creative …
Sonntag, Juli 1, 2012
Another one for your list…The Westminster Abbey’s intranet is called The Font.
Montag, Juli 2, 2012
Thank you, Imogen! Strange that I haven’t though of adding your intranet name myself before… 😉
Donnerstag, August 9, 2012
Hi there, i am developing a new intranet for a School Bus/transportation company. Any suggestions for intranet names?
Montag, August 13, 2012
How about „The Bus Stop“ or „Infoline“?
Dienstag, Oktober 2, 2012
The group-wide ThyssenKrupp intranet is simply called „worknet“.
Mittwoch, Oktober 3, 2012
A previous intranet I worked on was called „The Source“.
Donnerstag, August 8, 2013
I’ve named two intranets: Capsicum (2005) for the Australian Psychological Society. I wanted a name for their first intranet that included the letters APS. Not many good English words have that combination, but Capsicum gave us a good visual identity.
In 2012 we asked staff at Australia Post to vote on a list of 10 name options, including Pebble, Red, Bugle. Staff chose Pogo, so we were able to use „Jump onto Pogo“ as part of our launch communications.
Mittwoch, September 18, 2013
Auckland Transport
Our intranet is called „Engine Room“. An ideal name for a transport focused organisation that delivers effective and innovative transport solutions to customers. The Engine Room powers that objective.
Donnerstag, Januar 30, 2014
We named it the Pulse.
When we need something we turn to the Pulse. When we have a problem we ask the Pulse. When we’re happy about something we tell the Pulse.
The Pulse is our first and last coworker; our champ. Our key employee.
– See more at: http://www.incentivecorp.com/blog/what-is-your-social-intranet-called#sthash.NUunEu0h.dpuf
Montag, Februar 3, 2014
I work at the NGO Epilepsy Action in the UK. Our intranet is called Wiggipedia, a combination of Wikipedia (being a well known source of information) and the surname of our deputy CEO (Wigglesworth). Staff suggested names, a panel did a shortlist, and then all staff voted on the intranet.
Donnerstag, Mai 29, 2014
A lot of great suggestions here. Its always great to have the name correlate to your business as so many of the above intranet names do.
Freitag, Juli 18, 2014
Specsaver’s current intranet is called Connect but their first intranet was called EyeQ
Montag, September 12, 2016
I loved this post, a good source for creative spirits! Thanks!
The UN named its worldwide Intranet as iSeek.
Kind regards, Su.
Freitag, April 7, 2017
We’re just deciding on ours prior to launch. Possibly something related to our organisation’s name. Nutshell is the front runner… any other nut-related suggestions??… and no, sadly Nuthouse was already vetoed.
Freitag, April 7, 2017
Too bad about Nuthouse… 😉 Nutcracker comes to mind as well, but I’m sure you’ve already considered this idea. Nutshell is a great name from my pov! Good luck with the relaunch!