Society Street Webinar Series

Crises for Publishing Societies are Not New: A History of Scientific Journals (Interview)

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Join Sam Burrell, our Program Chair, as she talks to Aileen about her new book, which explores the history of the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions from its very earliest days. What has this got to do with today’s Learned Societies? It might surprise you. Finding out about how we got to where we are today offers surprising insights into the business models of mission-led publishing societies, and shows us how we got to where we are today. (And besides, it’s really interesting.)

Societies: Is Your Governance Fit for Purpose (Fireside Chat)

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Is your governance fit for purpose? Is it evolving to meet the needs of your changing organisation? Join Society Street in conversation as we discuss these questions and talk about some of the challenges that societies face and look at the ways that some are organising their governance.

Publishing, Societies and Open Access, Part 2 -- Publishers

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This fireside chat is a conversation with publishers, who reflect on where they see society publishing going, and their view of the challenges facing societies — and how together societies and publishers should respond. It is Part 2 of our sessions on Publishing, Societies and Open Access. Heather Staines asks them how they see the landscape facing society journals, and how they can best support societies going forwards.

Publishing, Societies and Open Access Part 1 -- Societies

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This fireside chat focusses on societies themselves, asking the questions we should be thinking about, and we should have for publishing partners. What should we know about transformative deals? How do OA mandates affect us? It's a conversation with societies about their journals program, discussing the challenges that the changing publications landscape brings them, with a particular focus on the impact of transformative agreements on those who are working with commercial publishing partners.

2022 03 30 How are Societies Managing their DEI Initiatives (Fireside Chat)

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We know that many societies are currently focusing on DEI initiatives with their membership, leadership, and staff. What does good practice look like within our space and what should leaders be thinking about? We have brought together society leaders who have engaged in this topic to discuss their organisations’ approach and share details of initiatives and collaborations that the whole community could learn from.

Publications: How Are Societies Approaching Innovation and Revenue Diversification?

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We’ve been talking about income (and activity) diversification for societies through 2021, but although we’ve mentioned publications in passing, we haven’t bitten the bullet and talked about them directly — until now. Our November event brings together leaders in publications at three societies who are all thinking deeply about the challenges of not just revenue diversification, but innovating more widely. Join us in conversation as we explore their thinking and experiences in leading their societies through change: not just thinking deeply about content and its value, but also thinking about culture, risk, and having an innovation mind-set.

Case Study: How the British Ecological Society are Approaching Income Diversification (Interview)

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Our March event started the conversation about income (and activity) diversification for societies: with publishing revenues challenged, and revenue from in-person meetings disappearing completely, how can societies adapt to the new environment they find themselves in? Our September event returns directly to this question, with an interview with Paul Bower, who we met at the March post-Society Street Zoom call.

Hybrid Events: The Next Big Challenge (July 2021)

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2020 and (for most of us) 2021 saw events move entirely online. There were some great things that came out of it, including reduced carbon footprint, a greater reach into our communities for some … and a painful cut in meetings revenue. Many of us have been briefed with planning hybrid events for 2022, to make the most of both worlds. Many of us have questions. Society Street’s July event brings you a short presentation outlining the questions it is helpful to ask before planning the detail of an event, and brings together those in the thick of it to share what they are thinking about and how they have started to resolve some of the challenges for their events. Thanks to the continued support of our sponsors, it’s free to attend.

How To Approach Income Diversification for Societies

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Revenue diversification is likely already in your society or association’s current strategy, and clearly the key to a healthy future. But where do you start? Society Street’s first event for 2021 covers: how a society can approach revenue diversification; a case study; a conversation with panellists who are product creators.

2020 Webinar (November): Has the Pandemic been the Mother of Invention

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This session explores our experiences of running annual meetings online in 2020, reflecting on what worked well and what worked less well, and how these experiences will inform meetings design and strategy going forwards.

2020 Webinar (October): Society Street in Conversation: Leading Through Turbulent Times

As the chief exec of a large charity with a social justice agenda which focusses on the rights of women and girls globally, Girish Menon brings a broad view to the challenges of leading through turbulent times, relevant to all of us. Katy Amberley is the chief exec of the British Society for Haematology and was keen to invite Girish to speak to us at Society Street to explore what increased global uncertainty means for those of us leading our mission-driven organizations: both for the organizations, but also for us as individuals.

2020 Webinar (September): Change! - Six Months On.

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Cindy and Mary’s talks in the Change session from Society Street virtual was one many of our attendees found inspiring: it came at a time when many were floundering. Their session gave both reassurance and hope. We wanted to revisit some of the themes we covered in March, and ask Cindy and Mary to review where we are six months on How has COVID-19 developed our thinking? How are we adapting to the changes, and what skills do we need to develop and value to bring our organizations safely through the turbulent times ahead? What has been surprising about the last six months, and what opportunities do we see for the future?

Webinar: Thinking Holistically about Content

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Julie and Paul will be presenting a case study of their experiences at AMA where they and their teams have broken the third wall of society publishing: bringing together journals and education into one end user experience. Through a collaborative effort, Julie and Paul bridged the gaps between brands, business models, editorial practice, technology platforms, and missions to innovatively reimagine education at the AMA and to recreate the experience with the physician and patient outcomes as the core goal. They will be answering questions from the audience, highlighting society publishing can differently about brand, mission, technology and content and begin to build customer-facing experiences by working across teams.

2020 Webinar: Who is Your Community?

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One of the important sessions from our planned in-person event, we look at who it is that societies serve (and is your society doing what it should be doing to serve those communities)? What is it that younger potential members want? (Is membership an anachronistic notion, or does it foster a sense of tribe and belonging?) We start of this session with each of our early careerist speakers talking briefly on what they would like to see from Learned Societies, and we will then enter into a wider conversation about what societies could be doing, with contributions from the audience.

2020 Webinar (May): Conferences and Meetings: An Update

A few weeks on from Society Street Virtual, we are bringing some of the “Conferences and Meetings” panel back together again, to reflect on what they have seen and learned in the intervening weeks. The session we held in March was extremely lively with many questions. As things are continuing to change rapidly, we asked them to join us again to reflect on what has changed in the last month or so, and what they have learnt.