% Why I want to be the Community Engagement & Communications Officer
% David Ramírez-Ordóñez
% January, 2019

When I think on myself, I can not see me just like a writer, instead I prefer to be recognized as a blogger. Nowadays you can be a digital citizen enacting your ideas or using performative but also legal and imaginary forces. It means that you are arguing with digital acts not only by words, but also images, videos, sounds and actions like linking, coding, clicking, downloading, sorting, blocking and querying; as Isin and Ruppert wrote in their book "Being digital citizens". I want to be an active person in the library community and develop all the previous skills. This is a great opportunity to do it using Internet. And I believe that Internet is not just a network of computers, but a network of human beings.

# Community engagement: EU Project

As librarian and teacher, I believe that the most you share, the most you learn. If you are able to make grown your community, you can start to ask more sophisticated questions, resolve more specific challenges. I used the *community of practice* theory to learn about copyright between librarians and our community change the copyright law in Colombia (Latin America). You need discipline, clear messages to share very complex ideas and run campaigns that you can measure to advocate for the library field in international spheres like the World Intellectual Property Organization.

I imagine that being in contact with the projects of the research libraries in Europe I can try to connect different ideas to make life easier to all the stakeholders. I want to share my expertise in the digital world to explore solutions, not just writing, but using data visualizations, queries to retrieve data and information to become a storyteller of the research librarians and give them tools to adapt, edit and share their own stories.

# Communications: LIBER Communications

My twitter account - @[hiperterminal](http://www.twitter.com/hiperterminal) - has +5.700 followers, 200 more than LIBER account on this day, when I wrote this letter. I don't know how good or bad is this, but I understood that if you talk to a community and if you have a clear idea of what you want to express, people start to follow you narratives, ask you things, you start conversations and discover others' skills and super powers. 

I have some background on software development and it lead me to use free software to solve all my problems with alternatives to property software. It means that sometimes I code something, I study how things work and find solutions to my needs. I want to find my own voice being a storyteller and that require certain skills to modify the tools that I am using to get what I want to express.

I write in a blog 10 years ago and I perceive many phenomenons according to the type of message, the call to action, the media involved and the topic, following the statistics and different metrics. I ran campaigns with specific goals, and the metrics teach me a lot. I am aware of how much can you learn about your audience on Internet, but it appeals to my ethic and wants me to work in a place where the privacy of people is important, and they are part of our team, nor the product to sell.

I am exploring communications based on open science principles and someone told me that I have an aesthetic approach, because I don't want to make just an excellent job, I want to make it beautiful too [^1].

# Why I want to be the Community Engagement & Communications Officer

Because I want to keep working in the library field, supporting the values that I believe and facing challenges that makes me feel a better professional and a better citizen. I became a librarian to develop the critical thinking of my community and I see that this position could make me feel very well, even if there is pressure.

I want to be a better professional and a better person with this job.

[^1]: This document was written in markdown and converted to PDF using PANDOC. You can access to the *source code* at [http://a.nomono.co/gx](http://a.nomono.co/gx)