Ask the Chefs: SSP 2026 Annual Meeting
The Chefs offer their reflections on last week’s SSP Annual Meeting.
Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen is VP of Marketing at Silverchair, where she leads brand strategy across the Silverchair Platform and ScholarOne products. Her path through scholarly publishing has taken her from managing events and ebooks at the University of Virginia Press to community engagement and product operations with ScholarOne at Clarivate Analytics (creating a nice full circle moment when Silverchair later acquired ScholarOne). She’s been with Silverchair since 2017, minus that brief “sabbatical.” Stephanie is passionate about how technology companies engage with the scholarly publishing community, moving beyond static messaging and instead building meaningful bridges between platform innovation and the people who use it. A long-time volunteer with the Society for Scholarly Publishing, Stephanie has served as co-chair of the Marketing and Communications Committee since 2023. She also serves on the board of C4K, which supports youth outcomes through technology, arts, and mentorship. Through her writing for The Scholarly Kitchen, she hopes to explore the intersections of technology, community, and culture in scholarly publishing. She’s also a published poet whose love of em dashes precedes GPTs, and she’ll never accept the absence of an Oxford comma.
The Chefs offer their reflections on last week’s SSP Annual Meeting.
For scholarly publishers, the user has changed faster than the systems designed to serve them, and the gap between the two is where most of the difficult work is happening.
The threat of zero-click search makes organizational brand more important than ever and presents a huge opportunity.
Let’s say the quiet part out loud: gossip plays an important role in scholarly publishing. But is that a bad thing?
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We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack?
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Industry pros offer a marketing manifesto of sorts, to help our non-marketing colleagues see behind the curtain and understand how to best leverage these critical team members.
How can organizations facilitate safe and comprehensive engagement with AI? And how can individuals within those organizations engage and advocate for their own AI literacy?
These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.
Results from the SSP survey on the changing nature of social media use by publishers, research societies, libraries, vendors, and others in our community.
Social media is changing — as we all reconsider our approaches and channels, we asked the community to weigh in with their response to the question, “How has your / your organization’s approach to social media changed in the last year?”
In the last of this series of posts about this year’s Annual Meeting, SSP’s Marketing and Communications Committee asked members of our community what the conference meant to them.
Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen sat down with the Co-Chairs of the SSP’s Annual Meeting Program Committee to learn more about the event and what we can look forward to.
Registration is open for the 2022 SSP Annual Meeting. We asked the community, “What are you most looking forward to about attending the SSP Annual Meeting in person?”