{"id":1649,"date":"2019-11-08T09:23:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T08:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2019-11-08T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T12:28:32","slug":"the-10-minute-library-advocate-43-tell-a-friend-to-tell-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/11\/08\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-43-tell-a-friend-to-tell-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10-Minute Library Advocate #43: Tell a Friend to Tell a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1653\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/11\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-43.PNG-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Image: two people with speech bubbles. Text: the 10-Minute Library Advocate #43, tell a Friend to Tell a Friend\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/11\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-43.PNG-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/11\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-43.PNG-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/11\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-43.PNG-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/files\/2019\/11\/10-minute-library-advocate-number-43.PNG.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Advocacy is about being convincing.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned a few times in our series (exercises <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/04\/19\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-14-find-a-journalist-who-can-write-about-libraries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/2019\/09\/20\/the-10-minute-library-advocate-36-get-your-work-recognised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">36<\/a>), it can be more powerful when your message comes from someone other than you.<\/p>\n<p>You can try to get a celebrity to speak on your behalf.<\/p>\n<p>But you don\u2019t have to focus on public figures. Your own visitors can be great ambassadors for you!<\/p>\n<p>So for our 43<sup>rd<\/sup> 10-Minute Library Advocate exercise, tell a friend to tell a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Encourage someone who comes to your library to make sure that the people they know hear about why they appreciate it so much.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, hearing this from a friend may be more convincing than from someone who is famous, but whom you don\u2019t know personally.<\/p>\n<p>You can do this through talking with users, but also through a poster or other reminder.<\/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 on social media using the #EveryLibrarianAnAdvocate hashtag!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocacy is about being convincing. As mentioned a few times in our series (exercises 14 and 36), it can be more powerful when your message comes from someone other than you. You can try to get a celebrity to speak on your behalf. But you don\u2019t have to focus on public figures. Your own visitors [&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],"class_list":["post-1649","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\/1649","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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/lpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}