Very glad to hear of this. Self promotion and self evaluation. Listing the work one does helps identifying products and results, and hopefully also works to review how to improve, what is missing, and so forth.
Very sorry I'm not able to be there this year. I do look forward the papers online :) all the best Trilce > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:33:55 -0800 > From: "Chris Alexander" <calexander at sjmusart.org> > Subject: [MCN-L] Follow up to Honeysett Director, IT > Session > To: <mcn-l at mcn.edu> > Message-ID: > > <E9686E889FEEB744BED9DB4E0C8B00C7098D43 at sjdc01.sj.internal> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Hello, > > As a first time attendee of the MCN Conference, I > have to say that I was very fascinated by the > conversation going on about the relationship between > IT Professionals and their Directors. I am > fortunate because a little over a year ago the > director of the San Jose Museum of Art made a > decision to embrace technology and created the > position which I currently fill. > > Piggybacking of some of the discussion about > communication, I wanted to offer a little info about > a situation that arose recently. Around the one > year anniversary of my position I was approached by > our Marketing Director who mentioned to me that I > need to be a little more outspoken about what it is > that I do at the Museum. This really caught me off > guard. I felt that with every opportunity that > presented itself I tried to speak about technology > and what it was that I was doing. I went through a > lot of denial about this, but finally came to the > conclusion that I would draft an email that would > recap the previous year's accomplishments; this > email would then be sent to certain staff members > who I felt were stakeholders. The email took me two > days to write and ended up being a four page memo. > In it, I tried to put it in layman's terms what was > accomplished; this many people downloaded our > podcast, this many people watched our YouTube > Videos, this many people listened to ou > r cell phone tours, I went to these conferences, we > are mentioned on this blog, etc., etc. I also > included links, which most people are pretty > comfortable with clicking on. Basically, I became a > self promoter. Not something that I expected to > have to do, but embraced after I reflected on all > the accomplishments. > > The email, with attached memo, was very well > received and became "Jerry McGuire"ish from people > saying, "Have you read the memo?" or "Hey, I enjoyed > the memo! Didn't realize you did all that stuff!" > It was even printed out and distributed by the > Director of the Museum to all the Board Members at > one === message truncated === :..::...::..::...::..: Trilce Navarrete PhD guest researcher University of Amsterdam -Digital Heritage. Masters in Cultural Economics -Digital Museum Collections. Erasmus University Rotterdam. Masters in Arts Management -Museum Studies. University of Oregon. +31 (0)6 244 84998 trilce_navarrete at yahoo.com Turfdraagsterpad 9 (room 1.03) NL 1012XT Amsterdam __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
