One Louder

Alex...Hmm, "unMarketing"...definitely goes with my "I am not a marketer" thing ; )

WIne-Oh...definitely nothing with "ham"...oh I am gagging. Least favorite food.

Paul...that's awesome. I love it. Definitely the front-runner! The subtitle could be "free snark inside!"

All these recommendations are helping.

Skip- pretty funny.

Shannon...hmm, you made me think of one of my favorite movie lined ever that could be the name of this blog: "What's your damage, Heather?"

Now I need som BQ corn nuts immediately. ; )

Melvin- freudian slip on your last one...are you telling me what I say is a load? Haha! : )

OK, brainstorming is good. : )

(Scott, it's secretly always bothered me too).

Maybe "Heather Hamilton: gagging at the thought of ham and sniffing stinky sponges" Hmm, I guess that's not marketing related.

James-my mom is going to love the "something dead in the crawlspace" one.

I think what I am looking for is something that represents the sometimes focus on marketing/recruiting but is also a little funny.

"Dude, where's my marketing blog?"

Heather's marketing blog. Now with zero grams net carbs!

Wine-Oh...you mean I'd have to be witty once a month? One of my favorite bloggers, Heather Armstrong, changes hers regularly. Coincidently, her maiden name is Hamilton and I found her blog during a temporary bout with internet egomania. But she's way more funny than me. I'm not sure if I can be funny on demand.

Hmm, I'm thinking of just taking one of the recommendations, sticking it up there and seeing how people react. Of course, I won't change any of the graphics without technical help...mostly because I know the limits of my skills.

Ben- good ones. I think you meant "blog" instead of "blob", but I have to admit that using "blob" in the title might achieve the required funniness.

Wine-Oh, yeah, you need to stay away from the name/job topic...hah! I'm not sure I am going to have time to do the contest thing but I like the idea.

Paul-you are getting at what I am looking for. The personality thing is important. And I like to think I am funny sometimes...I may be alone in that thought.

So I can do a title and then a little blurb underneath. I don't want to go too heavy on the recruiting aspect because I want my audience to include non-job-seeking marketers (with the thought that I can win them over to Microsoft). Plus, I find the assumption that everyone wants to work here to be a level of arrogance that I can't deal with. So I can't do the "wish you worked here" thing.

That's why I'm partial to Paul Roub's recommendation. It has a sense of humor (self-critical at that), it has a marketing aspect and it's Microsoft relevant. Also, Shannon's recommendation "You've been Heathered" is kind of growing on me...don't ya kind of wonder what "being Heathered is all about?" It definitely involves something snarky for sure!

No math (please no math!), but pop culture references would be OK. I'm also willing to poke fun at myself as long as it's not too painful a subject ; )

And yes, I need a new picture (or else I need to stop changing my hair color)

Of course, it bears mentioning that Frank Shaw, who added a recommendation above, is our WaggEd PR guru (is that the right way to describe you, Frank?). Don't suppose we could put some WaggEd resources on this, can we Frank? No? I didn't think so. : )

Jason-funny what someone who knows me in person comes up with...and a little scary!"It's a recruitING blog, not a recruitERS blog!"

I liked Heathers too. But I do think it was at lease half due to corn nuts. I loved them first. Well if I named my blog that, I think I'd have to have another Heather blogging here to have it makes sense.

Too bad there's not an unpronouncable symbol for the finger quotes thing. Then I could satisfy Bryan and Paul and display my solidarity with Miss Britney.

Maybe we can try different variations on the product title idea. You are right Paul, I want to use the subtle humor in the title.  

haha...what, you thikn I look more like an "o" than an "i"?

Ahh, just teasing

Sarah- it is hard, isn't it? As much as I love my last name, I think it might be too "blah" when I want to be "zing!". I worry what Hamiltonesque might smell like (right now, my mom is thinking "don't talk about the sinky sponge!").

I have a new appreciation for all those people that have cool names for their blogs.

OK, Nathan, we will definitely blame it on that!

Wine-Oh...put down the remote control!

I think the "MTV Generation" might be a little off target for me. Maybe better if I was doing college recruiting.  And I promise you the word "pimp" will not appear anywhere in my new blog title!

I'm going to test drive some new titles...whatcha think?

Good point Tod. I'll resist the urge to "try out" names. If this one doesn't stick, I'll pick another and stay with it.

Oh yay...proof that someone gets the humor! Now I just have to worry about Nigel Tuffnel telling me to stop using his phrase.

Thanks for the link too...I hadn't seen that!

Aww, Dudley. Thanks!

Sarah-would I have to have a trademark for that?

Andy-the magic of "one louder" is that the people who didn't see the movie don't necessarily think I am crazy. You on the other hand...

You forgot "little green globule"

"You keep folding and folding...this one has a little guy"

It's been so long...I wonder if I have those right.

I guess I have to thank Dan Kotecki, my boyfriend sophomore year of high school who introduced me to it and thought it was funny to sing "big bottom". Yeah, real smart singing that to a high school girl, buddy.

It's like ten only it's one louder. It goes to eleven.

Even if people don't get the movie reference, there's some relevance to blogging in that blogging makes your voice "one louder".

Or people who know me might suggest that a comma is in order: " One, Louder"

Holy crap...Dan Kotecki. I didn't mention that you always had a full pack of Big Red in the console of your car. So what's the deal? Are all of my high school boyfriends hanging out together? I'm going to have nightmares about that now. Say nice things : )

I hope you and your family are doing well. I think I recall that you wanted to be an architect...is that what you are doing? I honestly don't think we have spoken since my sophomore year. Wow. Good to hear from you!

The more I think about this, the more I believe that Dan wasn't joking and felt he really had to clear his name. I hope I am wrong because I remember Dan having a great sense of humor (he liked Spinal Tap after all) and I can't imagine anyone worrying about someone knowing that he sang a song about big butts to some girl he dated in high school. I still laugh about it when I remember but perhaps Dan didn't read anything else on the blog and thinks I was upset by that? I don't know. Life is stranger than fiction.