http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/02/05/ontario-library-association-con-blog-and-take-away/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:25:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/02/05/ontario-library-association-con-blog-and-take-away/#comment-1124 Thomas Dowling Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:40:15 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2005/02/05/ontario-library-association-con-blog-and-take-away/#comment-1124 Preparing an "elevator talk" (as I've heard it called) is also a great way to clarify your own thoughts about exactly why something that we intuit as "cool" will matter to a non-geek - if at all. Preparing an “elevator talk” (as I’ve heard it called) is also a great way to clarify your own thoughts about exactly why something that we intuit as “cool” will matter to a non-geek - if at all.

]]> http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/02/05/ontario-library-association-con-blog-and-take-away/#comment-1123 Roy Tennant Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:25:12 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2005/02/05/ontario-library-association-con-blog-and-take-away/#comment-1123 Definitely agree with you and Pat that developing "elevator interval" pitches for new technologies that are useful (and not all are) is a _good_thing_. That's certainly a lesson we should be taking from the business world. Also agree with you on Orkut. I joined both tribe.net and orkut.com, and gave it my best shot -- including starting groups myself. But it never floated my boat, and I haven't been back there in months. Definitely agree with you and Pat that developing “elevator interval” pitches for new technologies that are useful (and not all are) is a _good_thing_. That’s certainly a lesson we should be taking from the business world. Also agree with you on Orkut. I joined both tribe.net and orkut.com, and gave it my best shot — including starting groups myself. But it never floated my boat, and I haven’t been back there in months.

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