10 Questions to Ask New Administrators
Posted on September 10, 2007
Filed Under Future of Libraries, Job Ad, Library 2.0, Web 2.0 |
Pretend for a second that your organization is hiring a new administrator - a library director, assistant/deputy director, or something similar. What 2.0 questions might you ask? Here’s a list of 10 questions from the Logic+Emotion blog to ask a marketing agency executive:
- Do you read blogs. Which ones?
- Do you have a personal blog? What’s it about?
- Do you participate in at least one social network? Which one?
- Have you ever uploaded a video online? What did you use to do it?
- What’s your favorite search engine. Why?
- Have you ever used an online classified service like craigslist?
- Besides making phone calls—how else do you use your mobile phone?
- Have you ever registered a domain name?
- Do you use social bookmarks or tagging?
- Do you use a feed reader of some sort? Which one? Why?
The author goes on to explain: “You are looking for a sense of understanding that only comes with
experiencing something for yourself … It’s not important
to have done everything in this list—but it’s critical to have done
SOME of it.” The goal is to find a basic level of understanding, to find (in this case) a marketing executive that gets new media, new media outlets, and understands how customers digitally interact.
Now - think back to that library administrator. How might he/she answer these questions? Better yet - HOW would you want these questions answered?
Something to think about…
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Oh, I wish I could blog this list, but I will settle for an anonymous comment instead. I think I can say with little hesitation that my Dean and most, if not all, of my ADs can do/have done NONE of these things. That makes me incredibly sad.