Thank you for the input so far! I went ahead and posted it to our Youth Power Coalition members (was always the plan but y’all gave me the confidence I needed to just throw it out there). The post has been up for only a short while so it’s early days yet, but here are some interesting things that have come up:
Yes! How a name makes people feel definitely factored as a reason for members liking one idea over another. A reason given for liking “Hub” was because it “sounds very inviting”.
I really liked this concept of making the forum name synonymous with our name, but because we use Slack as well, and because we’re not just an online forum, it’d be confusing to say “Post it on Youth Power Coalition.” One member brought up the idea to keep only the “Youth Power” part, though! So, instead of saying something like “Youth Power Coalition Hub” it would just be the “Youth Power Hub”. I personally love this idea because then the Youth Power Coalition as an organization could maintain a consistent brand across our website, programs, and online forum, but also be just one of several partner organizations that come together to create the Hub which is very much in the spirit of how we work as a coalition.
Again, early days yet, but thank you, this has already been so illuminating!