Guest Post — An Inspiring and Sustainable Future for Scholarly Events
Paul Killoran, CEO of Ex Ordo reflects on the future of scholarly events and makes a case for innovation.
Guest Post — Hybrid Versus In-person: What Will Be the Future of Academic Conferences?
Marco Marabelli reports on the results of a study looking at the benefits and problems of remote and hybrid conferences, and what the changes in recent years will mean for meetings going forward.
Guest Post — Results of the 2022 Survey on Travel, Events, and Return to Office Plans
A look at the results from the SSP’s survey on travel, returning to the office, and attending in-person events.
Guest Post — Event Streaming Start-Ups: A Strategic Overview and Taxonomy
The value of streaming video as a genre of scholarly communication is just being established. Today, Danielle Cooper and Dylan Ruediger profile the leading start-ups in this space.
Guest Post — Learning from the Experience of SSP’s 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting
What can the SSP learn from our experience of the virtual 2021 meeting that can inform future annual meetings, whatever the format?
Guest Post — Updating “What Should a Conference Cost?”: Lessons Learned from Another Year of Online Meetings
Mark Carden offers lessons learned from year of running an online conference in 2021, designing a hybrid conference for 2022, and observing what event providers have offered and delegates have experienced.
A Framework for the Future of Conferences
The sudden virtualization of conferences sparked a flurry of experimentation. It is now time to build the future of the scholarly meeting.
Scientific and Scholarly Meetings in the Time of Pandemic
As professional and academic societies scramble to cancel meetings or move them to online formats in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Michael Clarke discusses considerations for both maintaining revenues and engagement.
University Press Redux: Preserving Heritage, Charting The Future
University presses are enjoying something of a renaissance in the UK, as was evident at the recent University Press Redux conference in Liverpool. Why is this, and how are presses trying to reconcile mission, innovation and sustainability in the digital world? And what can they teach the rest of us?
Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship – An Interview with Robin Champieux and Jill Emery about this New Conference
April sees the first Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship conference, described by the organizers as providing a “broad and collaborative forum for addressing and affecting scholarly and scientific communication. Find out more about this new meeting in our interview with two ARCS 2015 Board members, Robin Champieux and Jill Emery
Répondez s'il vous plaît: Ravings From A Conference Planner
There it is in your email inbox. An invitation to speak at an upcoming event. Your expertise has been recognized. The favor of a response is requested.
Webinars, Webinars, Webinars — How Do We Evaluate This New and Increasingly Pervasive Option?
Webinars can serve many roles — B2B, B2C, promotion, education. As they proliferate, the special mix of work and benefit webinars represent will come under scrutiny, and your ability to plan well to grow in this area may be tested.
The New Face of the Professional Society
The professional society is becoming unmoored from its publication benefits. Will publication benefits in an open access environment become a centerpiece of a new breed of membership organizations?
Ask the Chefs: "What Was the Best Conference You Attended This Year, and Why?"
Conferences are a vital place to exchange information and ideas for publishers and other information specialists. Which meetings stood out in 2011?