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"We are excited to propose that SLA change its name to the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals, or ASKPro."

It will be nice putting "strategic knowledge professionals" on my resume, especially for those places which scan for buzzwords. And I'll be glad to belong to an association of people not of libraries (Special Libraries Association sounds like it should be a confederation of institutions, not of individuals.). But I do think ASKPro sounds like a software package.

So very mixed feelings about the coming ballot to change the name.

Comments

[eclecticmagpie.livejournal.com]

Find a way to change it to "Ask a Pro"?

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid ASKPro doesn't just sound like a software package — it sounds like 1980s software package. And sla.org is a pretty good domain name, not to be given up lightly. (The obvious domain for Association of Strategic Knowledge Professionals, askp.org, belongs to someone else, thought they're not currently using it and might be willing to sell it. For that matter, so does askpro.org. I'd at least alter the order: skpa.org is available.)

Seriously, how strategic is it in the twenty-first century to give up a name for which you own the obvious domain for one for which you own neither the obvious one nor even the lame 80s-style alternate?