Dear Colleagues,
As fall finally arrives on the East Coast, we can look ahead to SSP’s upcoming learning opportunities and back a bit to IN Conference 2011.
Learning at Fall Seminars: Coming November 8th and 9th
Your opportunities for learning and networking continue this fall at SSP’s Fall Educational Seminar Series to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, November 8-9, 2011, at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC. Two day-long seminars will be held:
- Seminar 1:Content and Apps for Mobile Devices: Engaging Users in the Mobile Experience. Focusing on mobile users, speakers will share their perspectives and experiences on delivering, providing, and accessing content in the mobile arena.
- Seminar 2: Moving to the Online-Only Journal: Breaking Free of Print Constraints. Attendees will explore issues to consider in moving to online-only publication and the opportunities available by breaking away from a print-based format.
Attend one or both seminar offerings to take advantage of opportunities for lively conversation and valuable networking.
Learning in the Comfort of Home
Read the newest issue of Learned Publishing, which is free to SSP members.
Social, Mobile, Agile, Global: Are you ready?
The above is the theme for SSP’s 2012 Annual Meeting, May 30 – June 2, 2012, in Arlington, VA. Speakers will help answer the question, what do scholarly publishers need to know to be ready for the changes and priorities of the social, mobile, agile, and global industry in which we participate?
The time is right for you to help shape the SSP program as a speaker or session organizer. The Call for Participation is open now through November 11th, and the program planning committee, led by Ann Michael and Heather Staines, is eager to receive proposals for sessions you would like to see, organize, or lead.
Proposed sessions should focus on scholarly publishing, align with the theme, and offer the audience tangible benefit, for example:
- Trends and best practices
- Global shifts in research creation and production
- New business models
- Examples (case studies) of successful product development efforts
- Examples of successful product development efforts
- Organizational impact of addressing the theme area
To participate, submit your idea to the Call for Participation survey by November 11.
IN Conference 2011-Don’t Let It Drift By You
The sold-out attendance for IN 2011 was an indicator of the enthusiasm for this year’s topics: innovation, globalization, and collaboration. The buzz as the meeting concluded on September 18 was audible. Attendees had just completed presenting their team’s responses to the challenges they had addressed in the carefully crafted but reality-based case study that was fundamental to the Conference. But nobody seemed ready to leave. Was it the panoramic views of Washington they had enjoyed for two days? The selection of speakers from within and outside scholarly publishing? The chance to exchange ideas with colleagues and get to know new people? The novelty of the experience? I’m betting all of these factors contributed to the reluctance to leave.
You can share in the experience even if you could not attend in person. Presentations are available from the moderator, Mary Waltham, and the speakers, including Eric Newman, Dan Strempel, Jan Reichelt, Melanie, Stegman, Mark Witkowski, Bradley Allen, and Joe McEntee.
You will not find the presentation by dinner speaker Julie Beckman, who with her partner won the design competition for the Pentagon Memorial. However, you can visit the Memorial when next you have a little free time in the Washington, DC area and make your own connections between the innovation and collaboration that go into imagining and completing such a remarkable place.
This and That
With pride, we note that Kent Anderson and The Scholarly Kitchen were mentioned recently in the New York Times. At least that seems to be the case. For details see Mr. Anderson’s blog entitled, Branding, Plausible Deniability, and the New York Times.
Are you looking for a job or searching candidates to hire? Check out SSP’s job listings. On September 30, the site had 201 jobs posted – that is a lot of jobs! Job seekers can also post their own resume at the site and create Job Alerts to match themselves to job opportunities.
With best regards,
Terry Van Schaik, SSP President 2011-2012
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