Last night was extremely productive.
After I posted my blag post here, I put out a call to my “tweeps” [Twitter friends] asking if anyone had time to help me brainstorm a name for my next project. I knew kind of what I wanted, but nothing I had come up with seemed quite right. I needed some help.
Within just a few moments, I had 5 people jump in, @DJNoRequest, @GriffinClubMerv, @acrimoniousmofo, @rurugby & @MarieMonDieu.
I told them “I will be doing one-on-one interviews with persons I find interesting. using lannalee.com as url.” I was leaning toward “The LannaLee Project” or “The LannaLee Experience,” but neither seemed to quite fit. Here is a testament to how brainstorming can work. I knew kind of what I wanted to say, but not clearly. I needed help to find something, and critical to finding the right something happened during the brainstorming process.
Within an hour we had a name.
Here are the first few suggestions that were made:
- @GriffinClubMerv: Me & Lanna Lee
- @DJNoRequest: LannaLeening
- @MarieMonDieu: Lanna Lee Sees
- @DJNoRequest: LannaLeering
- @GriffinClubMerv: Its Getting Late with Lanna Lee
- @DJNoRequest: Lanna Leeping to Conclusions
- @acrimoniousmofo: how about: I’m Lanna Lee, who the heck are you? Heck was my third word choice; don’t know how broad an audience you’re seeking.
- @rurugby: Lanna vision.. Or the Lanna Lee old time variety hour ,
- @MarieMonDieu: Lanna Lee’s THINK TANK? Lanna Lee stirs it up? Lanna Lee Sees into your SOUL? Lanna Lee Loves you?
- @GriffinClubMerv: Latte with Lanna Lee
While these suggestions were percolating I was responding and making my own suggestions (The LannaLee Experience/The LannaLee Project). I wanted something fun, and it needed to include LannaLee in it. I realized, although I said I would be doing interviews, what I really will be doing is conversations, or at least directed conversations. And not only will I be having these chats with interesting people, those people will also be fascinating. So I made a couple more suggestions:
- Me: Confab with Lanna Lee (but cooler)
- Me: Convo with Lanna Lee (but cooler)
And then @GriffinClubMerv came back with: Lounging with LannaLee. Perfect. I had my name, and better understanding on how I need to talk about what Lounging with Lanna Lee is, namely:
A weekly audio podcast where I (LannaLee) have a face-to-face, half-hour conversation with an interesting and fascinating person.
It gets better.
I updated the website with information about the podcast, and sent out a tweet asking for feedback, noting that my placeholder logo sucked. This morning Greg Daly (aka @DJNoRequest) started sending me logo samples. And we coordinated (yet again) on the new logo!
This was the result:
Needless to say, I love it.
And tonight I tore that logo apart to make this logo (so any imperfections with this one are totally my fault.) Note, Lounging with Lanna Launches in March 2012!
Lots more to do, but I’m well on my way. Next steps include: figuring out more logistics, fleshing out the website, and soon I will start inviting people to lounge with me.
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If I asked you to Lounge with LannaLee, would you?
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