{"id":5869,"date":"2013-01-27T09:49:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T14:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2013-01-27T09:49:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T14:49:27","slug":"between-sessions-at-alamw13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/between-sessions-at-alamw13\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Sessions at #alamw13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alamw13.ala.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/conversationstarts-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The conversation starts here...\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/conversationstarts-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/conversationstarts-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s often said that the best parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/alamw13.ala.org\" title=\"Midwinter\">conference<\/a> happen between the sessions, when attendees go to lunch, get a drink, walk the exhibit floor or just sit to talk. Ideas spring out of these small in-betweens and sometimes these little ideas grow. <\/p>\n<p>Though they don&#8217;t come to me often, I myself had such a moment yesterday. Walking on the exhibit floor between meetings, I encountered a colleague who I hadn&#8217;t talked to since Annual. We reminisced and found that we were working on very similar projects. In fact, his project dove-tailed so perfectly with mine that I told him that I would email him immediately after conference to have a follow up. You just don&#8217;t run into these kind of opportunities in the office. <\/p>\n<p>The conversation really does start here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s often said that the best parts of conference happen between the sessions, when attendees go to lunch, get a drink, walk the exhibit floor or just sit to talk. Ideas spring out of these small in-betweens and sometimes these little ideas grow. Though they don&#8217;t come to me often, I myself had such a moment yesterday. Walking on the exhibit floor between meetings, I encountered a colleague who I hadn&#8217;t talked to since Annual. We reminisced and found that we were working on very similar projects. In fact, his project dove-tailed so perfectly with mine that I told him that I would email him immediately after conference to have a follow up. You just don&#8217;t run into these kind of opportunities in the office. The conversation really does start here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[317,186,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2013","category-blogger-dan-rude","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}