Sometimes you will hear that companies like Facebook name their conference room by film, food, catchphrase, etc.
These companies that choose a creative name for their brand, as well as colors and design, help to provide the best first impression to your customer and develop your company branding.
A conference room name is not just a name but says a lot about you, your values, your goals, and how you want others to perceive you.
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Excellent examples of names for a room
A Facebook representative told Fortune’s Slater Tow that “voting on the finest conference room names is a long-standing practice here.”
Each Facebook employee chooses a topic, which is then voted on, and then votes on names within the theme to choose the name of the conference room in their assigned area. They can then choose the best titles for their office’s inspirational rooms.
#1 Theme: Horrible Life Ideas
- Sub-Prime Mortgages
- Windows Vista
- Beacon
- Running with Scissors
- Fighting Chuck Norris
- Knife at a Gun Fight
- Land War in Asia
- Crossing the Streams (Ghostbusters)
#2 Theme: Musicians + Acronyms
- Barenaked LEDs
- Collective SOL
- Flock of SQLs
- Notorious OMG
- Vanilla ICMP
- LOL Cat Stevens
- 50 CentOS
#3 Theme: Star Wars Crossed with Drinks
- Dark and Stormtrooper
- Use the Four Loko
- Mai Tai Fighter
- Brewbacca
- Jar Jar Drinks
- Darth Jager
Etsy
As an online marketplace for creative entrepreneurs and do-it-yourself sellers, it stands to reason that Etsy’s conference room names would be more artistic and off-the-wall.
Using a mash-up of two things that almost everyone on the planet enjoys — food and music — based on the idea survey of employees:
- Fleetwood Mac ’n’ Cheese
- Wu Tang Clams
- the Rolling Scones
- Johnny Cashews
- Oreo Speedwagon
- Soy Division
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news, and entertainment company with a focus on digital media.
As the media that provides digital content for millennial and generation Z, BuzzFeed bring its own energy into its meeting rooms by naming them using buzzwords like WTF, LOL, OMG, or WIN.
Airbnb
In Airbnb’s San Francisco headquarters, their Environments Team has created a variety of workspace options to exemplify the sharing economy, a fundamental concept at the core of Airbnb’s mission.
Environments activates Belong Anywhere as a transformative philosophy with the power to change work and event space forever.
This philosophy can be expressed by their meeting rooms names making every meeting feel like having a holiday trip with your co-workers:
- Mumbai
- Rio
- Shanghai
- Brooklyn
- Smiths Lake
SpaceX
This space travel company owned by Elon Musk names their conference rooms with names of famous astronauts and scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, John Glenn, and Albert Einstein, clearly defining that SpaceX is seeking for reaching the sky.
Tips for naming your conference room
By appropriately naming your rooms, users will not only be able to recognize them more easily and quickly, but they will also be able to chuckle or feel inspired before entering the room.
Here are some tips for naming your conference room:
- Choose a naming theme that fits your company’s personality and displays your organization’s own culture.
- Make sure the theme is scalable so you don’t run out of alternatives when the firm grows and requires more working space.
- Make sure the theme is widely represented by inviting the most frequent users – your employees – to contribute by submitting name suggestions or voting for their favorites from a list created by the management team.
- Use the ideas that everybody likes, such as global cities, local landmarks, famous movies, plants, etc.
These naming may not make your meetings simpler, but they will certainly increase the tone and get everyone enthusiastic before they enter the room.
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