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21 May 2013

• (diff | hist) . . 2013 Pre-Meeting Workshop: Thinking Outside the Book‎; 15:50 . . (+169)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎

20 May 2013

• (diff | hist) . . 2013 University Press & Library Cohabitation and Collaboration: Challenges and Opportunities‎; 18:12 . . (+10)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎

17 May 2013

• (diff | hist) . . 2013 Redesign A Classic‎; 19:29 . . (+614)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎
• (diff | hist) . . 2013 Rebranding Our Backlists: Deciding What, When, and How‎; 19:29 . . (-21)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎
• (diff | hist) . . 2013 Press Library Coalition Forum‎; 19:28 . . (+237)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎
• (diff | hist) . . 2013 (Re)Branding the Journal‎; 19:26 . . (+196)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎
• (diff | hist) . . 2013 The Potential of Campus Collaborations‎; 19:24 . . (+138)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎

14 May 2013

• (diff | hist) . . 2013 Websites 2.0‎; 19:41 . . (+37)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎

10 May 2013

• (diff | hist) . . 2013 What's Next in Digital Publishing: HTML5, EPUB3, and Beyond‎; 18:52 . . (-4)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎
• (diff | hist) . . 2013 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show‎; 18:50 . . (+65)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎

8 May 2013

• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Plenary 2: It Happened in Missouri‎; 20:30 . . (+981)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "The panel will reflect on the closing and re-opening of the University of Missouri Press. What was the role of social media in rallying public sentiment, and what does the epi...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Redesign A Classic‎; 20:28 . . (+372)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "TBA ---- '''Chair:''' Sonia Shannon, Senior Book Designer, Yale University Press ---- '''Please feel free to add notes or responses to the session in this section. You can...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Reaching the World‎; 20:28 . . (+1,344)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Inspired by Princeton University Press Director Peter Dougherty's impassioned speech at last year's meeting, on "The Global University Press" (a must-read version of which app...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 The 21st Century Catalog‎; 20:27 . . (+1,244)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Many internal constituents, from sales and marketing to acquisitions and development, use the university press catalog for their own purposes. In this session, panelists will ...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle‎; 20:26 . . (+1,205)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Taking the environmentalists' slogan as our starting point, this panel will discuss the ways in which the intellectual environment can be conserved and enriched by new(er) for...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Kirtsaeng vs. Wiley: Implications for Publishers‎; 20:26 . . (+626)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "In its March decision, the US Supreme Court determined that the doctrine of first sale does apply to works made overseas. In this session Linda Steinman, a partner at Davis Wr...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Preparing Authors and Managing Expectations‎; 20:25 . . (+1,677)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "As a first point of contact for potential authors, acquisitions editors must be prepared to advise not only about procedures and workflows related to acquiring, but also about...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Websites 2.0‎; 20:24 . . (+1,101)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "If we aren't using our websites as a true "sales" arm (since most people buy via Amazon or another vendor), what are their roles? If we shift away from "we're selling books he...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 New Funding Opportunities‎; 20:24 . . (+1,249)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Crowdfunding may seem antithetical to the mission of the university press. We're committed to publishing books because of their scholarly value, sometimes in spite of their pr...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Do We Need a Content Management System? Where Do We Start?‎; 20:23 . . (+1,272)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "This panel will delve into content management systems and the practicalities of implementing them from technological and production standpoints. Panelists will provide an over...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Everything You Wanted to Know about a P&L and Were Afraid to Ask‎; 20:22 . . (+1,166)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "This session engages the evolution of the P&L (profit & loss statement) from a strictly print-based evaluation tool to one that's suited to all the permutations of the digital...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Your Title Management System: Buy It or Build It?‎; 20:22 . . (+1,648)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Formerly known as the "presswide database," today's Title Management System (TMS) is an essential tool for publishers of all sizes. Tracking a book project on its journey from...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Working Together, Far Apart‎; 20:21 . . (+1,723)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "New technologies have expanded the possibilities for remote work like never before within the AAUP community. Video conferencing, paperless processes, and sophisticated online...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 University Press & Library Cohabitation and Collaboration: Challenges and Opportunities‎; 20:20 . . (+1,692)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "In these times of rapidly developing advances in electronic publishing, shrinking financial resources in higher education, and increasing demands for more timely publication, ...")
• (diff | hist) . . 2013 Creating a Social Media Strategy‎; 20:18 . . (0)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Genres for the Trade: University Press Imprints‎; 20:18 . . (+1,116)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "As university presses experiment with different types of books aimed at reaching new audiences, what can we learn from the successes and limitations of trade and/or regional i...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Creating a Social Media Strategy‎; 20:17 . . (+1,051)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "What are the best practices and methods in social media? How can we develop strategies to promote individual books and authors, categorical lists, and our presses as a whole? ...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Rebranding Our Backlists: Deciding What, When, and How‎; 20:08 . . (+1,066)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Panelists will look at tools for strategically rebranding and repurposing backlists, including analytics and backlist reviews, sales input, cover design and book packaging, ne...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 What's Next in Digital Publishing: HTML5, EPUB3, and Beyond‎; 20:08 . . (+1,447)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "EPUB3 and HTML5 are the newest specifications in industry standards designed to support electronic publications and web browsers, respectively. Together, they offer new promis...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Expanding Print Sales in a Post-Ebook World‎; 20:07 . . (+1,236)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "In a publishing world that is shifting to more ebooks and less print, which areas can sales departments still increase to maximize print exposure and sales? This panel will in...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Boston Media Panel, or What We Want‎; 20:06 . . (+1,230)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Here is an opportunity for publicists and marketers in the university press community to learn useful ways to pitch books to Boston-based outlets. This panel will be a round-t...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Getting the Message Across: How UP Staff Can Convey our Mission to the Scholarly Communication Community‎; 20:05 . . (+1,522)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Ever feel like other folks on your campus don't understand what your press does, why it exists, why it needs money if it sells books, or why it takes money at all if informati...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Press Library Coalition Forum‎; 20:04 . . (+1,189)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Discussion board comments coming from various librarians about "those greedy publishers" and "everything produced on campus here should be open" have troubled many university ...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 EPUBs 4 Ways‎; 20:03 . . (+1,277)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "The panel looks at four ways ePubs are being created currently: (1) from XML-first prepared texts using an XSL transform; (2) exported from a desktop publishing application su...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Dude, Where's My Metadata?‎; 20:02 . . (+1,458)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "How many university press publishers know how (and how much) their book metadata is transformed from the data file they deliver into the distribution stream? What do wholesale...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 The Modern Day Marketing Campaign‎; 20:02 . . (+1,063)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Marketing staff will talk about effective and realistic ways of crafting a marketing campaign by shifting from print to digital marketing, incorporating social media ideas, an...")
• (diff | hist) . . 2013 (Re)Branding the Journal‎; 20:01 . . (+1)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 (Re)Branding the Journal‎; 20:01 . . (+962)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "This panel will discuss journal brand creation and maintenance at both the journal and the press/list level. Panelists will discuss case studies of successful journal branding...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show‎; 20:00 . . (+576)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Judges review their selections for the 2013 show. ---- '''Jurors:''' Mark Abrams, Book Cover Designer, Vintage Books Alex Camlin, Creative Director, Da Capo Press Barbara ...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 The Future of Altmetrics‎; 19:59 . . (+1,408)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "What is next for measuring journal quality? The current system is limping along in the new digital environment, but cultures in the academy need to change, technology needs to...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 E Before P‎; 19:58 . . (+1,456)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "As digital projects make up a growing part of the publishing conversation, the opportunities for editors to engage in innovative publishing has increased; but so, too, have th...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 The Potential of Campus Collaborations‎; 19:56 . . (+989)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "This session offers ideas and specific examples of ways to strengthen your press by exploiting campus services and fostering collaborations with campus partners. A general che...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Managing Print Inventory in the Digital Age: Solutions and Business Models‎; 19:54 . . (+1,102)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Panelists from the 2012 workshop on inventory management reunite to discuss how presses should be thinking about inventory in a "just in time" world. Inventory is no longer th...")
• (diff | hist) . . 2013 Digital Piracy Review and Discussion‎; 19:53 . . (+18)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Digital Piracy Review and Discussion‎; 19:53 . . (+919)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Is digital piracy a real issue for university press books? If so, in what ways, and what can we do about it? This panel will bring together researchers and rights administrato...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Book Tour 2.0‎; 19:52 . . (+1,154)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "The days of sending authors out on expensive book tours through Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and beyond are mostly over, but are book tours well and truly dead? A panel of ...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Emergent EDP Workflows: Ideas to Help Cope with Chaos‎; 19:51 . . (+1,358)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "This very practical panel will present an overview of some sample editorial, design, and production workflows, from raw text and art gathering to print and EPUB output, from a...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Investing in Donor-Community Relations‎; 19:51 . . (+991)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "When does a press decide to create a position for a person to find, nurture, and solicit donors, foundations, and universities? How is this position different at public and pr...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Preparing for the Unexpected: What Happens When the Inconceivable Happens?‎; 19:50 . . (+899)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Presses have faced numerous unexpected and significant events, from natural disasters like fire and floods, to technology malfunctions and budget cuts. Major impacts to employ...")
• (diff | hist) . . N 2013 Designing with a Template‎; 19:49 . . (+923)‎ . . ‎Regan Colestock (Talk | contribs)‎ (Created page with "Design templates can be both efficient and unwieldy. But designers and others are coming around to the idea that template design does not automatically equal poor design. By i...")