Thank you, everyone, for your responses to my question last week of how
people name their intranets. As promised, here's the summary (but with
names deleted).
Several of you thought the idea was a good one, but the respondents
themselves haven't named their intranets, either.
Some of you name your intranets with the abbreviations of your law firm or
agency, and it was suggested by one of you that I do the same (GoFeRHH?).
Some examples:
RRBNet ("Nettie," for short)
HRO Interoffice Home Page
ORMH&H Intranet
WNJ Net
Some of you shied away from additional corporate branding, and chose the
following:
Web Library
Libranet
KnowledgeNet
Or my favorites:
Intra Harbour (the firm overlooks a harbour!)
LVIS (Legal Virtual Information System, complete with a licensed photo of
the King himself!)
CARDOZO
Inside Our World of Information
Thanks again for all who responded. A few things became surprisingly clear
to me, though. First, few of us seem to be naming intranets at all, much
less thinking very much "outside the box" when naming them. Second, I
believe this stands in total contradiction--for whatever reason (anyone know
why?)--to libraries' recent histories of naming online catalogs; names such
as Mollie, Victor, Carl, Gladys, Melvyl, GULLiver, HOLLIS, LEAGLE, COLOMBO,
JACOB, DANIEL, Pegasus, JULIUS, LOLA, etc. come readily to my screen and
mind. Just a little food for thought on a now very busy Wednesday!
Steve
Steven Anderson
Librarian
Gordon Feinblatt Rothman Hoffberger & Hollander, LLC
233 East Redwood Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: 410.576.4255
Fax: 410.576.4246
E-Mail: sanderson@gfrlaw.com
Web: http://www.gfrlaw.com
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