Hey! This is just a little yada for the heck of it. I needed to book an after-hour meeting, which means booking a security guard for the evening. I sent the email to "security", which is in our email address book, and to the security manager email address I found in our online rolodex. This rolodex is shared by the whole library district. Apparently, this particular bit of the rolodex had not been updated in years! Our raggedy paper rolodex had the correct email address, so I was able to fix this goof, just in the nick of time.
So...the moral of this story : all the online and techno-whatever is really great, if it is as up-to-date and easy to get to as...our raggedy paper rolodex.
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I thought about adding the frog, because it is really cute, but then decided not to. It's nice to see someone didn't share my doubts!
ReplyDeleteJohn
Technology is still run by humans. It is up to us humans to keep the technology humming. It is even more difficult in a large organization with lots of turnover and change to keep things "up-to-date." It's just as important to communicate to others when there is a problem so it can be rectified. No informatiom source is perfect! The key is to be familiar with as many tools as you can be.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, that's why we still have a print collection of reference materials because sometimes you cannot just get what you need from a database or on the internet.
I'm "old school" and PROUD, but also not a technophobe!