World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

The 25th – 29th June 2012 hosts the Ed-Media Conference in Denver, Colorado. This conference sees author Nicola Johnson giving two presentations:

• Internet addiction – the hype and the evidence
• Publishing from your PhD (doctoral stream)

The focus of her two presentations come from the research and information she put together in writing her books The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction (published by Ashgate, 2009) and Publishing from Your PhD (published by Gower, 2010).

     

Europe’s Number 1 Information Security Event – author presentation

Infosecurity 2012 is taking place at Earl’s Court on 24 – 26 April. Gower author, Ian Mann, will be at the event with his company ECSC Ltd on stand E80. 

Ian will be presenting at the event in the Business Strategy Theatre at 12pm on Thursday 26th April with the headline of Social Engineering IX – Hacking the Globe – a snappy little title, that sets the theme for an examination of cultural differences that impact on the task of the social engineer.  This is the result of his social engineering work across a number of continents.

Do pop in and see Ian on the ECSC stand at any time during the three days - he will be doing regular short presentations each day.  ECSC are vendor independent information security specialists offering expert guidance, support and management services.

Ian’s book, Hacking the Human is available from Gower Publishing.

ICCPM and APM new partnership

If you can get past the acronyms (the ICCPM is the International Centre for Complex Project Management and the APM is the Association of Project Management), this is an interesting development; one that reinforces the growing emphasis on complexity and systems thinking in project management. The ICCPM are a Gower marketing partner and have been leading the way with an interesting programme of research and education. If you are involved in projects and haven’t come across this organization before, do have a look at what they do.

Come and see us at Information Design Conference 2012

Gower is attending and exhibiting at Information Design 2012 (12th-13th April) at Greenwich University, London. The event has a very eclectic programme, reflecting the many aspects of information design: human factors, information management, design management, visual studies, architectural design … the list goes on. If you are planning to attend, do drop me an e-mail (jnorman@gowerpublishing.com) and call by the Gower/Ashgate bookstand. I’ll be delighted to meet you.

International Patent Filing and the Challenges and Solutions of Open Innovation

Patent laws have no application or force outside the country in which they are enacted so it is important to determine in which jurisdictions you should obtain patent protection, and on what basis you should make such decisions.

Donal O’Connell has written a paper on this subject called International or foreign patent filing strategic considerations and can be found in the following places:

The Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore and

Practice source, a website for Australian and Asian legal news 

Donal has also recently presented a talk on Open Innovation: The Challenges and Solutions, it was recorded at a British Library event in London and can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/RfkTpU8K2BU 

 Donal is the author of Harvesting External Innovation

Intellectual Property and the Film and Music Industries

Following Wikipedia’s Blackout in protest to the Intellectual Property and Online Piracy acts being debated in America, many have begun wondering what the future could hold for the business models in the film and music industries and whether these business models themselves are outdated.

Jane Lambert, has written a number of articles on her blog, that give a good background to IP policy and the film and music industries:

IPC Policy: Does Hargreaves say Anything New?

Injunctions against ISPs

Injunctions against ISPs Part II: the CJEU’s Judgment in Scarlet

Jane is the author of Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights

2011 Social Media in a Project Environment Survey Results

I am a big fan of  Elizabeth Harrin (author of the forthcoming Customer-Centric Project Management) and she has been one of the leading lights on the topic of social media for project management. You can download her 2011 Social Media in a Project Environment Survey Results from her website - here are some of the key highlights:
- 20% more people are using blogs for business use than in 2010;
- Over 90% of respondents use social media tools to stay in touch with colleagues;
- A quarter of respondents use social media tools for managing project teams;
- Over 75% of respondents feel that social media tools can, or do currently, improve the way they manage projects, but this is down from 83% last year.

Six Great Minds!

Billed as a day of ‘Intensive Learning for Senior Marketers’ the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Six Great Minds is an imaginative and ambitious event for Chartered Marketers and Fellows of the Institute. The day (Friday 16th March) brings together in London, six authors whose books offer perspectives on some of the most significant, current, strategic issues including social business, complexity, leadership, innovation, commoditization and risk. The good news for those of you who are not Chartered Marketers or Fellows is that, whilst you may not attend the event, you can access the ‘great minds’ via their books. Even better news; between now and 1st March, you can use the following discount code: G11GBN25 to buy these books from the Gower website at 25% discount on the list price.
The six great minds are:
Donal O’Connell – Harvesting External Innovation
Chris Mowles – Rethinking Management
John Rayment – Misleadership
Niall Cook – Enterprise 2.0
Andrew Holmes – Commoditization and the Strategic Response
David Abrahams – Brand Risk

Avoid jointly owned intellectual property like the plague!

Donal O’Connell is unequivocal in his message for those involved in collaborative forms of innovation. This piece from his website provides a succinct argument as to the risks of jointly owned IP and offers some suggestions for alternative solutions. Donal O’Connell is author of the Gower book, Harvesting External Innovation.

Construction sustainability is one of the learning legacies of the 2012 Olympics

One of the most rewarding things for a publisher is to see the connection between the ideas and guidance in our books and application of good management in practice. Uly Ma’s book, No Waste, has drawn heavily on his experiences working with the ‘No  Waste’ programme on the 2012 Olympic construction projects. There is a very interesting write up for the programme as part of the ‘Learning Legacy’ for the games on the 2012 website