Category: Strategic Communication

Strategic Thinking and Scholarly Publishing

I am currently reading (and enjoying) Richard Rumelt’s Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and so I thought I would share John Byram’s (@jwbyram) thoughts on how Rumelt’s ten common strategic “blunders” can be applied to scholarly publishing. John is the Director of the University of New Mexico Press and has worked in publishing for over 25 years, so his insights draw on deep expertise and lengthy experience in the field.

This is a four-part series John originally posted on the Society for Scholarly Publishing Professionals Group on LinkedIn, a closed group. John has graciously given permission for me to share his piece in this open forum, and I will publish it here in its original four-part format. I hope you enjoy this series as much as I do.

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Plagiarism in Grant Proposals

Last year, The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article titled “Plagiarism in Grant Proposals” by Karen M. Markin. The topic of plagiarism in grant proposals is something I discuss in my grant development seminars and workshops, and this article made the topic more tangible for many of the participants (although there is still always a lot of discussion and disbelief around the concept of self-plagiarism).  If you haven’t read this article, and you are involved in grant development, I would highly recommend that you take some time to review the article and share it with your team. One very salient point made is that the PI will always be held responsible for content, and the line “my graduate student did it” is not a defense.

Often, however, seminar and workshop participants ask for an example, and recently a case of plagiarism in a grant proposal was addressed by the Office of Research Integrity. Continue reading “Plagiarism in Grant Proposals”

Tracking and Organizing Your Social Media with Bitly

Tracking and Organizing Your Social Media with Bitly

In this business you need to keep up with available and emerging technologies, but the trick to staying productive is to pick and choose the tools in which to invest your time. The tools I choose typically have some competitive advantage over other tools in the area of efficiency–there simply isn’t enough time in the day to explore inefficient tools in the hope that there is some hidden benefit as yet unexplored that will change the calculus of efficient time management. But this article makes me want to re-consider Bitly, a tool I have used solely to shorten links. It would seem I’m missing out on some potentially interesting Bitly tools. Analytics for links across multiple sites and media is just one benefit of Bitly, and this article explores other Bitly tools of which many are unaware.

Happy exploring!