In Colin Beveridge’s blog, Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire, he posed an interesting question: Describe what you do in just three words.
You may think that question is both simplistic and challenging, but that duality is precisely what makes me think that it really is a very powerful question – incredibly valuable for the reflective insights and communicative skills that a properly considered answer will reveal.
I saw a mention of it in the LinkedIn group Online Information & IMS Exhibition and Conference, so I posed this challenge to my (primarily info pro) networks on Twitter and Facebook. I found some great answers, and I’m watching for more. Among the ones that info pros have offered are:
- Making clients smarter (my answer)
- Tenacious problem solver
- Strategic information solutions
- Better decisions faster
- Helping organizations thrive
- Fill knowledge gaps
- Discover, display, protect
- Find your solution
- Facilitate intelligence
- Informing client decisions.
- Enable knowledge flow
- Encourage knowledge sharing
- The user experience
[and more are coming in...]
- Helped make money
- Navigate government online
- Understanding your problems
- Powerful Performance Unplugged
How would you describe yourself in just three words?
Book Recovery Specialist
Posted by: Elizabeth Pugh | August 24, 2009 at 03:51 PM
Search and Serve.
Posted by: Your friendly neighborhood law librarian | August 24, 2009 at 08:59 PM
support student learning
Posted by: Diane R | August 25, 2009 at 06:37 AM
Providing targeted content
Posted by: Linda Deitch | September 04, 2009 at 03:05 PM
encourage serendipitous learning
Posted by: Linda Nelson | September 16, 2009 at 08:59 AM