Comments on: Patience and staff buy-in http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/01/11/patience-and-staff-buy-in/ A librarian, writer and educator reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Jane http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/01/11/patience-and-staff-buy-in/comment-page-1/#comment-36938 Jane Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:31:29 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/01/11/patience-and-staff-buy-in/#comment-36938 Well, those who know me well know that I have little patience as well. I left out all the teeth gnashing I have done during the past few months. Maybe perseverence would be a better word then patience. ;) Well, those who know me well know that I have little patience as well. I left out all the teeth gnashing I have done during the past few months. Maybe perseverence would be a better word then patience. ;)

]]> By: Dorothea Salo http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/01/11/patience-and-staff-buy-in/comment-page-1/#comment-36925 Dorothea Salo Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:50:23 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/01/11/patience-and-staff-buy-in/#comment-36925 There's also a difference between abstract and concrete commitments. I wouldn't ask "will you work on it?" I would ask "will you commit two hours a week to it?" One of the reasons these things fail is that people think they're magic pixie dust. Wikis and weblogs don't look after themselves. I'm emailing you my thrown-together social-software talk, Meredith. Steal all you want, if any of it's useful to you. There’s also a difference between abstract and concrete commitments. I wouldn’t ask “will you work on it?” I would ask “will you commit two hours a week to it?”

One of the reasons these things fail is that people think they’re magic pixie dust. Wikis and weblogs don’t look after themselves.

I’m emailing you my thrown-together social-software talk, Meredith. Steal all you want, if any of it’s useful to you.

]]> By: tangognat http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2006/01/11/patience-and-staff-buy-in/comment-page-1/#comment-36840 tangognat Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:35:23 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/01/11/patience-and-staff-buy-in/#comment-36840 I think it can take much more time than one might expect for people to change their work patterns. I was ready to start blogging at my library a long time before we actually started using a blog to keep track of goings-on at the reference desk. We did start using it though, and I think that one thing that helped the adoption was that it was a direct swap of one thing for another- the paper log book went away and the blog was there, and everyone was expected to use it. I think it can take much more time than one might expect for people to change their work patterns. I was ready to start blogging at my library a long time before we actually started using a blog to keep track of goings-on at the reference desk. We did start using it though, and I think that one thing that helped the adoption was that it was a direct swap of one thing for another- the paper log book went away and the blog was there, and everyone was expected to use it.

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