Feedback on SLA name change
The Alignment Committee asked on my division list what we thought about the new name. Here are my points, in sum, showing my sincerely mixed feelings. (Thanks, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yakshaver, for prompting me about the domain.)
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I like the fact that the name makes clear we are an association of people, rather than a confederation of institutions.
I like the fact that this gives me another way to add some buzzwords to my resume. “knowledge professional”
As I slide sideways from librarian (reference and cataloging) to knowledge manager/records manager (archives, competitive intelligence, some reference), I become less attached to being in a “library” association.
I don’t like the fact that we are giving up our simple, easy to remember, domain name sla.org, especially since askp.org and askpro.org are both already claimed/squatted. If SLA sincerely means to adopt the new identity, we should already have registered both the relevant new domain names.
I dislike that ASKPro sounds like a software package from 1986. I don’t think it sounds like the name of an elite professional organization, and I don’t look forward to telling my manager I want to go to the ASKPro convention (instead of the library association) in a couple years.
And this is a big one:
I don’t think Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals differentiates us enough from the SCIP, Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. To me, it sounds like you were trying to recall one of the associations’ names and remembered it imperfectly.
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ETA: I got an email from the SLA President letting me know that those two domains are already Association property, under the hood. Whew!
yakshaver, for prompting me about the domain.)-------
I like the fact that the name makes clear we are an association of people, rather than a confederation of institutions.
I like the fact that this gives me another way to add some buzzwords to my resume. “knowledge professional”
As I slide sideways from librarian (reference and cataloging) to knowledge manager/records manager (archives, competitive intelligence, some reference), I become less attached to being in a “library” association.
I don’t like the fact that we are giving up our simple, easy to remember, domain name sla.org, especially since askp.org and askpro.org are both already claimed/squatted. If SLA sincerely means to adopt the new identity, we should already have registered both the relevant new domain names.
I dislike that ASKPro sounds like a software package from 1986. I don’t think it sounds like the name of an elite professional organization, and I don’t look forward to telling my manager I want to go to the ASKPro convention (instead of the library association) in a couple years.
And this is a big one:
I don’t think Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals differentiates us enough from the SCIP, Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. To me, it sounds like you were trying to recall one of the associations’ names and remembered it imperfectly.
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ETA: I got an email from the SLA President letting me know that those two domains are already Association property, under the hood. Whew!