{"id":1551,"date":"2019-08-09T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2019-08-09T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T09:14:31","slug":"the-10-minute-library-advocate-30-get-your-opening-lines-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/08\/09\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-30-get-your-opening-lines-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #30: Get Your Opening Lines Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1556\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/08\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-30-1.png\" alt=\"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #30: Get Your Opening Lines Right!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/08\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-30-1.png 849w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/08\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-30-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/08\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-30-1-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good advocacy can take place in seconds.<\/p>\n<p>This can be because you only have a very short period of time to talk with someone.<\/p>\n<p>But it can also be because the person you\u2019re talking to starts to make up their mind very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>For someone busy, this is natural.<\/p>\n<p>You need to make sure that they get the best impression of you and libraries from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>So for our 30<sup>th<\/sup> 10-Minute Library Advocate Exercise, get your opening lines right.<\/p>\n<p>Practice it \u2013 setting out who you are, and what you want to talk about, and why it matters.<\/p>\n<p>You may need to use it without much warning, so it\u2019s good to have it in your head.<\/p>\n<p>It can also help build your confidence for the rest of the conversation!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>See the introduction and previous posts in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/tag\/everylibrariananadvocate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10-Minute Library Advocate<\/a> series and join the discussion in social media using the #EveryLibrarianAnAdvocate hashtag!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good advocacy can take place in seconds. This can be because you only have a very short period of time to talk with someone. But it can also be because the person you\u2019re talking to starts to make up their mind very quickly. For someone busy, this is natural. You need to make sure that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26646,219,32,26647,26720],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-everylibrariananadvocate","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-library-advocacy","tag-public-speaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}