{"id":871,"date":"2014-10-30T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/?p=871"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T00:00:24","slug":"reaching-lita-members-a-datapoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galencharlton.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/reaching-lita-members-a-datapoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching LITA members: a datapoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently circulated a petition to start a new interest group within LITA, to be called the Patron Privacy Technologies IG. \u00a0I’ve submitted the formation petition to the LITA Council, and a vote on the petition is scheduled for early November. \u00a0I also held\u00a0an organizational meeting with the co-chairs; I’m really looking forward to what we all can do to help improve how our tools protect patron privacy.<\/p>\n

But enough about the IG, let’s talk about the petition! To be specific, let’s talk about when the signatures came in.<\/p>\n

I’ve been on Twitter since March of 2009, but a few months ago I made the decision to become much more active there (you see, there was a dearth of cat pictures on Twitter, and I felt it my duty to help do something about it)<\/small>. \u00a0My first thought was to tweet the link to a Google Form I created for the petition. I did so at 7:20 a.m. Pacific Time on 15 October:<\/p>\n

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LITA members interested in the @ALA_LITA<\/a> Patron Privacy Technologies IG – please sign the petition to form the IG: https:\/\/t.co\/kOggjNSKYi<\/a><\/p>\n

— Galen Charlton (@gmcharlt@mastodon.social) (@gmcharlt) October 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n