September 2009 Archives

Okay, so first off, I'm not a Facebook newbie.  I've been using Facebook to converse and track the happenings of my family and friends for years now.

But...

I was shocked today.  Simply shocked and amazed.

I sat in a room full of small business owners at my local chamber of commerce to discuss social media marketing.  Conspicuously, each table had the icon of a social media network hanging above them.  Halfway through the hour, the presenter suggested each attendee should all move to the table with the network most relevant to their business.  The networks listed were:

• Meetup


• Delicious


• LinkedIn


• Twitter


• Facebook

Much to my astonishment, the Facebook table was overloaded with over half the room.  I sat with two other people at the Twitter table.  This disparity just shocked me.  I thought Twitter was much more mainstream than that!

A good lesson.  Now I need to learn more about Pages and the other side of Facebook!

I've been spending spare cycle time this last week thinking about a good name for the freelance small-biz web consulting I want to start doing on the side from my day job.

And...I can't think of a single good name...at all.

I've thought about just building out a branch off of seanevanking.com, but I really want to keep that strictly a resume site.  So I'm left domain name hunting.  So far I've been to:

• The Dotomator


• crawled all over Urban Dictionary (I swear someone buys the domain name for every entry)


• Brand Bucket (too costly for freelance, but not bad for startups)


• I even went through a list of words ending with "us", to cleverly use the .us tld

Still nothing. Nada.  Nowhere...

I'm not giving up.  I think this just may take a while, and a large section of my oversized whiteboard.  If I'm lucky, I'll stumble across something before 2010...