Ann Michael

Ann Michael is President of Delta Think, a publishing consultancy focused on innovation in product strategy, development, and content management. Delta Think has worked with many major commercial and non-profit scholarly publishers as they clarified their business objectives, defined new content products and business models, re-architected their content processes, introduced new tools and technologies, and developed the skills and expertise needed to be successful in an ever changing publishing environment.
Ann Michael has written 22 posts for The Scholarly Kitchen

SXSW Interactive — Where the Geeks (and Geek Watchers) Go

SXSW 2013 is heavy on hardware, invention, lessons about taking risks and exploring, usability, and discussions about how best to achieve authority and credibility. Continue reading »

The Article — Not Quite Dead Yet

UKSG Coverage – The Future of Scholarly Journals: slow evolution, rapid transformation – or redundancy? @CameronNeylon and @Michael_Mabe debate at #UKSGlive Continue reading »

SSP Annual Meeting — A Call for Participation

Now is your chance to shape the SSP program as a speaker or session organizer. The Call for Participation is open now through November 11, and we want to hear from you with a proposal for a session you would like to see, organize, or lead. Continue reading »

Stick to Your Ribs: When Did Print Become an Input?

The mental models associated with print are still defining how we work and design. Why has this persisted? Continue reading »

Pizzas and Publishing — Why Disruption in Publishing Isn’t Coming from Within

Complexity, culture, and baked-in bias are limiting how publishers define value and approach the future. Continue reading »

Ann’s Pick for 2010: Print Isn’t the Technology of Today . . . or Tomorrow

Our ease with print makes inertia feel natural. But the winners will have facility with many more information technologies than just paper and ink. Continue reading »

When Did Print Become an Input?

When print is an input every other content product inherits prints DNA and can’t help looking and acting a lot like its parent. Continue reading »

STM Association Spring Conference: Are Publishers Listening?

The first day of the Spring STM Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was filled with ideas, different perspectives, and an interactive crowd. Continue reading »

Shirky at NFAIS: How Abundance Breaks Everything

“Abundance breaks more things than scarcity does. Society knows how to react to scarcity.” Clay Shirky speaks at the opening session of NFAIS. Continue reading »

Where Is the Money in Custom Publishing? Your Answer Depends on How You Define It

How custom is custom publishing? Will custom publishing ever move fully into the user’s hands? Continue reading »

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