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A long time mentor and friend, Cicely Berry, often says: "all we do comes from our need to survive".

Cis is the Voice Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company. Her profound work and deep appreciation of the human spirit has affected diverse communities all over the world.

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This blog is dedicated to the belief that the overall health of a community or organization is a clear reflection of their ability to communicate.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Who Determines Knowlege Flow?

In the work place, we are very accustomed to discussing information sharing and knowledge flow issues.

Knowledge Management is a category that some experts now argue to be obsolete. It's also one of those business terms that to me, dehumanizes our ability to communicate.


Here's an interesting vote going on at Harvard, regarding free publishing. Interestingly, the starting point is the faculty of the arts and sciences.

At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web

Published: February 12, 2008

Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free.

Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs.

Although the outcome of Tuesday’s vote would apply only to Harvard’s arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university’s prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at no cost.

“In place of a closed, privileged and costly system, it will help open up the world of learning to everyone who wants to learn,” said Robert Darnton, director of the university library. “It will be a first step toward freeing scholarship from the stranglehold of commercial publishers by making it freely available on our own university repository.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books/12publ.html?em&ex=1202965200&en=3c9b158889f51870&ei=5087%0

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