Wordlab

Welcome to the new Wordlab, a full-fledged social network for naming and wordplay, collaboration and creative thinking; as such it is structured a bit differently than what you are used to if you were a user of the old Wordlab and its Wordboard forum. Here at the new Wordlab, Forum topics are associated with Groups, which are roughly what the Forum Categories were on the old website.

Before you can do anything like what is described below, however, you need to sign up for a new account, which, as always, is free, and then log-in using the form in the sidebar.

Only snark, the site administrator, can create new groups, but there is a Topic for making new Group suggestions, so any groups that make sense to add and have enough users interested in, Snark will create for you. If you are interested in a particular existing group, click the “Join Group” button associated with that group, and you will instantly become a member of that group — or just post a Topic or reply to a Forum and you will automatically be joined to the group that Topic belongs to. As a member of a Group, you will have more interaction with the Group, its Forum and its members. Think Facebook Groups – same idea here.

If you want to post a topic for discussion, first find the appropriate Group, then click the “Forum” sub-navigation button within that Group, and fill out the “Post a New Topic” fields. You do not need to be a member of a Group to post or reply to Topics belonging to a Group.

For more helpful hints, see the FAQ page. Also see the sticky topic, “Getting started on Wordlab“, to help you get going. And if you have any direct questions for me, you can send me a private message from my snark profile page.

Welcome to the NEW naming playground!”