# Help me name my intranet site **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340 "2007-01-09T21:50:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/1 "2007-01-09T21:50:24Z")
I am about to launch a new site for Sales and Marketing at my company, but it needs a name. Were were going to call it SAM (Sales Asset Manager), but we already have a sales system called SAMS, so that’s out. The site being replaced by mine is called MASON (Marketing And Sales ONline). In a longstanding tradition of giving our sites and tools people names that are really acronyms (there are others), I need to come up with a snappy name for this site. Gots any ideas? I am stuck. Doesn’t have to be an acronym, actually. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/2 "2007-01-09T22:00:22Z")
How about “Mark Sal, the Sales and Marketing Pal!” I’m sorry. All of the ideas were worse. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/3 "2007-01-09T22:11:24Z")
Welcome to my world. Maybe SLAM, though, or something equally awkward. We lubs some awkward acronyms around here. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/4 "2007-01-09T22:13:16Z")
SALMAR? (Pronounced " Sell more" ) SALMON? ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/5 "2007-01-09T22:20:26Z")
“SALMON: Spawning better sales since 2007!” ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/6 "2007-01-09T23:00:32Z")
MARKS – Marketing and Sales MOSES – Marketing Or Sales Excellence System THOMAS – The Happy Other Marketing And Sales Yeah, I got nuthin’. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/7 "2007-01-09T23:02:37Z")
**M** arketing **O** nline **S** ales **E** xpertise (or Excellence) **M** arketing **A** nd **R** etail **K** nowledge (obviously not good for direct sales efforts) **S** ales **A** nalysis **L** eadership **E** xpertise **M** arketing ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/8 "2007-01-09T23:07:54Z")
SAM-2? (pronounced SAMTO) SARA (Sales Asset Reader Assistant) ? This is fun, making up acronyms withoug sensing how silly they sound, as English is nog my native language. I suppose the system needs to be both a noun and a verb, right? “I’ll search SAM for the data on that sale” as well as " Could you please SAM that sale for mistakes?" ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/9 "2007-01-09T23:52:16Z")
Marketing And Sales Tool Unlimited Resource Base And Total Integration Of Networks ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/10 "2007-01-09T23:57:06Z")
SAMSON - Sales And Marketing System ONline. It’s the son of SAMS! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/11 "2007-01-09T23:58:33Z")
Or for short: Wide Area Network Knowledgebase ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/12 "2007-01-10T00:00:15Z")
Sales House Information Tool. Fully United Corporate Knowledgebase. Go on, you know you want to. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/13 "2007-01-10T00:17:56Z")
MASK - Marketing and Sales Knowledgebage You could put a little icon of the mask from Phantom in the corner, maybe? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/14 "2007-01-10T00:25:04Z")
[QUOTE=cazzle] SAMSON - Sales And Marketing System ONline. It’s the son of SAMS! [/QUOTE] Holy crap, I _love_ this! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![notthatagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@notthatagain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notthatagain)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/15 "2007-01-10T02:27:05Z")
cazzle, that really was brilliant! :::loud applause::: ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/16 "2007-01-10T15:57:32Z")
SAMSON is totally cracking me up (as are some of the others… but this is from a girl who honestly tried to name an onlines newsletter SMUT (Sales, Marketing and Underwriting Talk). That got shot down with a vengeance. They’re just not ready for that kind of forward thinking around here. Thanks for the ideas! You’ve given me good stuff to work with. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/17 "2007-01-10T19:39:36Z")
[QUOTE=cazzle] SAMSON - Sales And Marketing System ONline. It’s the son of SAMS! [/QUOTE] If you name it this, will it have long hair? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-intranet-site/387340/18 "2007-01-11T00:26:19Z")
Screaming Calliope.