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Today we would like to tell you about the logo of the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
It was chosen by the international jury from 1,600 submitted for the contest posters.
Colors of the logo symbolize the nature of Canada. Blue and green - mountains, the nature of islands and forests.
Red - the color of v-leaf, a symbol of Canada. Yellow - the color of sunrise over Vancouver.
If you are outside Canada but want to watch the Olympics online - you can use Canadian VPN for this.

Time is the luxury of our complex world – so called 21st century; we can not afford losing it. Marketing in such environment requires lateral thinking followed by appropriate strategy in place and of course effective operations. This is all about IMC – appreciating traditional media while taking advantage of the new media. Rightly set IMC strategy would boost long term success for businesses; in which Social Media (SM), including SNS, has an important role to play.

Some analysts believe SNS are not the right place for advertising and to create the rightbrand exposure, due to various factors they obviously argue. Some marketers believe SMM is “tricky”. Needless to say that SMM is like any other techniques has its own pros and cons; its productivity is down to strategic and systematic execution. This is while some argue that SM should not be treated as marketing medium and a place which marketers exploit. SM however is mostly referred as a communication tool which users (both the public and businesses) need to play with its rules.

There are some basic questions to ask, prior to committing any resources to SM and SMM;

• Why SM
• Which and how many channels to use
• How to market via SM
• Who to target through SM
• When to utilise SM
• And many more; which we can help if of course you get in touch via the comment section of this post

Consequently, SMM strategists and operations team need to work closely with each other to identify strategic windows. This is to give confidence to stakeholders in relation to their investment of any kind to SM.

We are establishing a  community to complement the work of the journal Clinical Governance: an International Journal. It will evolve but it is hoped that it will broaden the usefulness and appeal of the core journal material.

Blogs are increasingly part of the editorial content of journals. The goal is to give readers news and opinions that do not necessarily have to correspond temporarily with established publication times.

My current plan is both to include actual editorials in this space and to publish shorter commennts with greater frequency.  The real value of a blog, in my opinion, lies in the discourse that follows in comments, so I am hoping for many entries. In the future I will try to be controversal, so that others have good reason to react.

Welcome to my newest endeavour - blogging about scholarship/publishing in Africa.

Hopefully this blog will:

• keep you up to date on what's going on with academic publishing in Africa/South Africa (think calls for papers, conferences etc)
• keep you informed about what's happening in libraries in Africa/South Africa (if it happens and I hear about it, so will you!)
• remind you that not everyone thinks like you (young people, older people and even older people all think and work differently - so prepare to broaden your mind!)
• keep you entertained! (I'd never read a boring blog, so why should you?)

I'm sure the path will be filled with broken links, unload-able pictures, typos and entries that won't always resonate with you - but I'm just as sure there'll be more than enough interesting stories, fascinating people and good times to make up for that!

So buckle up and enjoy the ride!

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Reblogged from the Scholarly Kitchen

As one former publisher, now consultant, told me, “a consultant is someone who steals your watch to tell you what time it is.” That is, a consultant is someone who tells you exactly what you already know, but want to hear again for reassurance sake.

In a particularly cogent article, Open Access 2.0, published in the June issue of the The Journal of Electronic Publishing, Joe Esposito lays out many things that we don’t know – or at least are not willing to admit – about publishing. This is not a collection of declarative diatribes loosely held together with non-sequiturs, or a pronouncement of how we’ve done good in our company/library. It is one of the few articles based on theory – in this case economic theory – and how it helps us to understand and predict the successes and failures of publishing.

The basis of Esposito’s argument is that the publishing economy’s limited resource is not access, but attention, and that the role of traditional publishing is to help readers decide what is worth their time reading. This job is done essentially through filtering (also known as gatekeeping).

And yet Esposito does not discount other forms of publishing that allows everything to come through the gate, and to filter and evaluate later. Thus he sees places for the role of Open Access and repository publishing, only he believes that these forms of publishing should occupy different market niches. In this sense, Joe goes beyond the typical rhetorical and binary argument of open or closed, but sees a plurality of publishing markets for reaching a plurality of reader communities. Similar to the argument of viewing the automobile as simply a horseless carriage Esposito writes:

One of the reasons that many open-access ventures have had a hard time financially is that they have been built on the mistaken assumption that they are replacing traditional publishing and thus have to re-create all of the services that traditional publishers now provide.

For pure OA publishing, he sees stripped-down models that attempt to minimize the role of human involvement and to maximize automation. For instance, he views a university librarian spending time coaching a faculty member on how to deposit a manuscript into the institution’s repository as both overly expensive (in the time of a highly-paid administrator) and unsustainable.

In spite of his insistence on avoiding the binary pro-against open access, Esposito creates another dichotomy between supporting readers (the traditional subscription market) or authors (the author-paid OA market). Part of this dichotomy may be used for rhetorical purposes and to strengthen the force of his argument. Nevertheless, this is one article from which both sides of the open access debate can read, agree, and learn.

From the Scholarly Kitchen

Publishers allow authors more freedom to use their articles than authors currently believe, a recent study notes.

The report, Journal authors’ rights: perception and reality, was written by publishing veteran, Sally Morris, for the Publishing Research Consortium (PRC).

For both the submitted and accepted version of the manuscript, authors routinely underestimated what their publisher agreements allowed them to do. Moreover, the rights granted by publishers generally exceed authors’ wishes.

On the other hand, authors tend to overestimate what they can do with the published version of their article when it comes to self-archiving. Few publishers allow final PDF versions to be made publicly available through subject or institutional repositories, although more than half of authors believed that their agreements allowed them this right.

The strength in this report is not the introduction of new data — there have been several, well-conducted author and publisher surveys, which Morris amply summarizes in her report — but her analysis and interpretation. Morris focuses on why there is a systemic disjoint between what publishers offer and what authors believe they can do.

Finding a solution to this problem is clearly her purpose.

She writes:

Publishers need to ask themselves why it is that authors have such an inaccurate understanding of their copyright policies, particularly with regard to self-archiving [...] Clearly publishers have failed to get across the positive message about those policies which, contrary to authors’ and others’ belief, do meet (or even exceed) their wishes.

Morris believes that much of the misunderstanding about self-archiving can be explained by confusion over the term ‘postprint.’ Indeed, she doesn’t hold back leveling some of this blame on the RoMEO database and on open access advocates such as Stevan Harnad and Peter Suber, who all equate ‘postprint’ with the final draft of a manuscript and not the published version of an article.

Responding to the report, Stevan Harnad defends his use of the terminology:

the preprint/postprint distinction is perfectly coherent: a preprint is any draft preceding the author’s final, accepted, refereed version, and a postprint is any draft from the author’s final, accepted refereed version onward (including the publisher’s PDF).

This definition may be coherent for Harnad, but it seems to confuse more than clarify.

NISO’s proposal for Journal Article Versions uses less ambiguous terminology such as Author’s Original, Accepted Manuscript, and Version of Record. Morris believes that widespread adoption of standardized terms will avoid future confusion. It would also reaffirm that publishers are adding value at each stage of publication. Morris concludes,

Although a few academics and librarians may want to see the demise of established journals and their publishers, most do not; a clear explanation of why this could happen, if a critical mass of their value-added contents were freely available, needs to be reiterated at every opportunity.

Earlier today I was able to conduct my final one to one interview for my dissertation.

This was the 6th(??) interviewee. All have had some involvement in the decision making processes that resulted in Emerald's new presence in Dubai.

It's been a learning experience. I'm not sure the first interview was a good one. I think I spent too much time trying to stick to a script, I didn't introduce the thing as well as I could have and I didn't listen as actively as I should have.

That being said, and after only a brief review of the interviews and my notes, there is a lot of consistency in the topics covered and the overall stories that emerge. I think I have to be happy with how it's gone so far.

The documentary evidence that I need to corrobarate and triangulate these interviews is a  little more difficult. I believe this mostly due to the fact that there is not much evidence there in the first place; much of the process and conversations and final decisions don't seem to be auditable in the form of meeting agendas, minutes, emails or much else. I don't know how much of a problem this is yet.


The very act of going through the interviews has been enormously useful though, and very enlightening. There have been some side tracks that I'll follow through that I think will really add some depth, texture and balance to the research.

The shape and structure of the dissertation is a little clearer to me now.

Overall pleased with how things have proceeded in May. My plan calls for data and evidence and interviews to have concluded by the end of May so we're ok there. June is analysis/interpretation. Don't have a clue how that might pan out - check back in a month.