{"id":1596,"date":"2019-09-27T19:24:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2019-09-27T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:24:34","slug":"the-10-minute-library-advocate-37-memorise-names-and-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/09\/27\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-37-memorise-names-and-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #37: Memorise Names and Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Image:One way of advocating successfully is to become familiar with key decision-makers or influencers.<\/p>\n

If you have a close connection, it is easier to share your arguments.<\/p>\n

But how to build this connection up when you first come across them.<\/p>\n

A good way to build familiarity is to avoid awkward questions about who they are by being able to address them immediately by their name.<\/p>\n

Politicians at least tend to appreciate when people know who they are from the first moment. But this isn\u2019t always easy in a public meeting.<\/p>\n

So for our 37th<\/sup> 10-Minute Library Advocate exercise, memorise some names and faces.<\/p>\n

If you know you might see them at a meeting, look them up online, and see if there are images available of them.<\/p>\n

Try to remember them so that if you do end up meeting them, you can say hello immediately, and get straight into making your arguments!<\/p>\n

Good luck!<\/p>\n

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See the introduction and previous posts in our\u00a010-Minute Library Advocate<\/a> series and join the discussion in social media using the #EveryLibrarianAnAdvocate hashtag!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One way of advocating successfully is to become familiar with key decision-makers or influencers. If you have a close connection, it is easier to share your arguments. But how to build this connection up when you first come across them. A good way to build familiarity is to avoid awkward questions about who they are […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-everylibrariananadvocate","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-library-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}