Yet another scientific journal seminar

I have been giving seminar on electronic journal publishing since 2005 while I was still with Elsevier. The activity has become regular now, even though I am not with Elsevier anymore. The forthcoming seminar will again at Airlangga University, Surabaya (Indonesia) on June 4th and 5th, 2008.

The topic for the first day will be ‘Citation Index and Impact Factor’ while for the second day will be ‘The Marketing Mix in Scientific Journal Publishing.’ Actually the materials are improvements from similar topics from November 2007 seminar, with more materials included on the PowerPoint presentation rather than online. I also differentiate ‘marketing’ into ‘input marketing’ and ‘output marketing.’

Blessing in Disguise (Thanks to Indonesia Blocking YouTube)

Since I posted a short article on how to bypass YouTube blocking (it’s actually a mere reference to my blogger friend in Bali), the traffic to my education sharing site (www.edu2000.org) has increased tremendously. I can easily see 60 to 70 visitors to the site at the same time compared to less than 10 previously.

YouTube has been as important neccessities for Indonesian, especially the youth and this restless generation won’t just keep standing there doing nothing. The world belong to younger generation with its cyber communities but the real world is still in the hand of the oldies, which even though they might be IT experts, their appreciation of the technology is so passé.

Indonesian ISPs Blocking YouTube (and How to Get Over It)

To my disappointment, Indonesian ISPs at the end blocking YouTube and other sites hosting the controversial film ‘Fitna’ from the right-wing Dutch politician Geertz Wilders. A sign of lack of understanding of Indonesian officials (or should I call it stupidity and ignorance?)

My education sharing website - www.edu2000.org - is certainly badly affected since many of its contents are derived from YouTube contents. Why should we throw away the whole truck of apples for only one or two rotten ones?

Luckily using proxy server this issue can be easily solved. You just have to install one of the software connecting to such server (such as SlipStream which can be downloaded here: http://www.tqci.net/dialer/SS_Installer.exe and install the software. During installation, the software would ask for username and password, which is username and password provided by your ISP.

Fill them in and that’s it! Magically you enjoy YouTube (and www.edu2000.org) again.

www.edu2000.org is Gaining Ground

Started ‘accidentally’ on November 2007, the www.edu2000.org initiative is now gaining ground. I have signed the first contract on February 11th, 2008 with a middle school (junior high school) at Bekasi, the Eastern outskirt of Jakarta.

You may check the school website, which is under edu2000.org subdomain: http://smpn3bekasi.edu2000.org. Sorry for some, the language used is Indonesian.

The edu2000.org concept has since been expanded from the original motto of ‘finding, creating and sharing educational content’ with another motto ‘community building.’ The idea of community building has made school alumni associations got interested with the platform. They see that edu2000.org would bring back the sweet old time of school days.

We’re now talking with the alumni association of Budi Mulia senior high school (Jakarta) to use edu2000.org platform for both school and alumni platform. You bet you’ll see the result in the coming months!

Business Aspects of Journal Publishing

I have just finished giving speech (together with my colleague from HK) at the Higher Education seminar which was held at Twin Plaza Hotel, Slipi, Jakarta.

I presented a short paper entitled: Business Aspects of Journal Publishing, in whch I discussed the main  function of scientific journals, the development of journals and how journals publishing becoming big businesses, especially in the internet era.

The audience are representatives from ten best journals in Indonesia according to Higher Education criterion. They are representatives from the ten best journals including five which are eligible to get government grant for journal development.

My colleague presented Managing International Peer Reviewer, Strategy for Capturing Interests of International Contributors, Language Mastery for Scientific Journals, and Self-Editing and Revisions. The response are very positive for both his presentation and mine (not bad for only less than a week notice).

It was a great opportunity to meet a wide range of players in Indonesian scientific community.

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