How would you abbreviate “Official”?

[Guest Guest]

Hi all,

 

Having to rename a few of our Social Media accounts & having a problem with reaching character limits on certain websites.

 

It is mandatory for us to use the word “official” to be the first word of the username, however in some cases (such as Twitter), our brand name is too long to be within the character limit.

 

Rather than abbreviating the brand name, we’ve opted to abbreviate “official” instead so that our brand name will still be indexed in its entirety on search engines etc.

 

Question is - how would you abbreviate “official”? I’ve seen mixed ones such as:

 

* OFCL

* OFFIC.

* OFF.

* OFFL

 

Within the Oxford English Dictionary, the only two listed are: “Off.” & “Offic.”

 

…so which of the ones mentioned would you choose to use; or any other suggestions?

 

Thanks!

[Guest Guest]

This is a tricky one. I've used OFFIC and OFCL as my abbreviation ever since....

 

OFCL was my original preference. The only reason why I didn’t jump on it there & then was that it’s absent in the O.E.D, annoyingly! I’ll see what others say tho & what’s more widely adopted. Thanks for your feedback. :-)

[elsiegee40]

Use a shorter word like “Real”?

 

If you use an abbreviation that half the people can’t work out then there’s not much point having it.

 

Alternatively abbreviate part of the school name? eg “”Sch” or “Acad”

[paulkerton]

Use a shorter word like “Real”?

Ghostbusters?

[nadeem]

Hi all,

Having to rename a few of our Social Media accounts & having a problem with reaching character limits on certain websites.

 

It is mandatory for us to use the word “official” to be the first word of the username, however in some cases (such as Twitter), our brand name is too long to be within the character limit.

 

Rather than abbreviating the brand name, we’ve opted to abbreviate “official” instead so that our brand name will still be indexed in its entirety on search engines etc.

 

I can see someone has not really thought this through - the word official has no meaning that can actually be effectively enforced - and actually having it at the start makes it harder to be searched / tagged.

 

My first thought when trying to @ something isn't to go @official... its to look for @actualstartofname...

 

I would suggest the description is a better place to clarify the official status of the social media account, otherwise you lose the "nicer" name

 

twitter.com/edugeek or twitter.com/officialedugeek - which looks better? (and to an extent more official??)

[MatthewL]

When I run social media accounts I use the same tag for all, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube but I've never used official on the pages I just brand them the same.

 

My next step would be the blue tick route if you want to make them official, looks far better in my eyes.