Learning is hard. It takes time, effort, and engagement. It’s the payoff that keeps us going. Unfortunately, like exercise or dieting, in many cases learning has been institutionalized as drudgery. What’s worse is that for those of us over 35 or 40 we learned how to learn in a way that took all the fun… Read More
“There’s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does.” Daniel Pink at TED Talks 2009 According to Dan, what science knows is that when people are offered rewards for simple, structured tasks results improve. But, when rewards are offered for tasks that are conceptual they have a negative impact on performance. What business… Read More
Attending SSP IN! Here's a post I wrote on the Scholarly Kitchen: Fifteen years ago would anyone have imagined that Apple, a dying computer company, would come back to life by gaining control of the music business?Ann Michael under, The Scholarly Kitchen, Sep 2009 Read all the coverage of the Society for Scholarly Publishing IN… Read More
Why haven’t I been blogging regularly? One big reason is the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) IN Meeting. Richard Newman, from the American Medical Society, and I are the co-chairs of the SSP IN meeting. SSP IN will take over the entire Hotel Providence from September 23rd – 25th. I could tell you all about IN… Read More
Image by mindseyeimagery via Flickr The other day I got a LinkedIn group alert from Andrew Spong linking to an article in The Journal of Electronic Publishing entitled Open Access 2.0: Access to Scholarly Publications Moves to a New Phase, by Joseph J. Esposito. His "Nautilus Model of Scholarly Communications" was a brilliant way to… Read More
Image via CrunchBase A couple of months ago, someone to whom I'm connected on Facebook mentioned that I over ran their home page with Twitter updates the last time I was at a conference. I tend to take conference notes on Twitter. When I had Twitter feed Facebook updates, my status was being updated… Read More
I’ve wanted to learn Spanish most of my life, but I’ve never gotten passed a couple of classes in high school and college. I tried again a few years ago. Even after spending a few hundred dollars on Rosetta Stone, I stopped using it after a couple of weeks. That’s about to change thanks to… Read More
We hear it all the time. Without effective communication every interpersonal relationship, every goal, every strategy, every organization, is at risk. Misunderstandings, poor morale, and ineffective relationships rooted in poor communication are commonplace. Effective communication is hard. It can be uncomfortable. It can make people angry with you. But, it’s the only way to solve… Read More