{"id":1578,"date":"2019-09-06T11:33:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2019-09-06T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:15:51","slug":"the-10-minute-library-advocate-34-stop-and-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/09\/06\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-34-stop-and-think\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #34: Stop and Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1580\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/09\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-34.png\" alt=\"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #34: Stop and Think\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/09\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-34.png 1335w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/09\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-34-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/09\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-34-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/09\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-34-1024x578.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Advocacy doesn\u2019t always work first time around.<\/p>\n<p>Your targeting, your messaging or your tools may not immediately be effective. This is normal.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not a reason to give up. In fact, this is really useful experience that you can use to improve things.<\/p>\n<p>So for our 34<sup>th<\/sup> 10-Minute Library Advocate exercise, stop and think.<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to reflect on what has worked well, and what hasn\u2019t in the context in which you are working.<\/p>\n<p>Remember what your objectives were, and think about whether you have achieved them.<\/p>\n<p>Which messages seemed to engage people, and which did you need to explain again?<\/p>\n<p>You can do this alone, or in a group \u2013 different perspectives can be useful. The results will help you develop your advocacy further in future!<\/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>Advocacy doesn\u2019t always work first time around. Your targeting, your messaging or your tools may not immediately be effective. This is normal. But it\u2019s not a reason to give up. In fact, this is really useful experience that you can use to improve things. So for our 34th 10-Minute Library Advocate exercise, stop and think. [&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":[26646,9767,219,32,26647],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-everylibrariananadvocate","tag-evaluation","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-library-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","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=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}