Video in Scholarly Communications: Issue #1

February 1, 2021

What’s New at Cadmore

Welcome! And thanks for reading. Simon Inger, Neil Gilstrap and I started Cadmore in 2018 with a simple mission: Offer scholarly societies and publishers the technology they need to fully embrace video. The world today certainly looks very different than it did three years ago, and our company hasn’t escaped the sea change that has affected most companies. But if anything the past year has only increased our commitment to video and our mission, which remains the same, centered around three main domain areas: research, education, and events.

While events have certainly undergone the most dramatic and swift changes in the past twelve months due to the rise of virtual conferences, our activities have spanned all three areas, which are becoming increasingly interdependent. We have grown from our three co-founders to a team of nine senior staff across the U.S. and the U.K – and we’re hiring again!

Whether you have an inkling that video might be part of your content strategy going forward or you have a business case ready to go, we’d love to talk to you. We do a lot more than just provide the best technology – we guide you through the process, from strategy to architecture and product release.

Keep reading for more ideas on using video, and if anything strikes you, I’d love to hear from you.

Violaine Iglesias, co-founder and CEO

Industry News

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Reimagining medical conferences for a virtual setting

This Harvard Business Review article by meeting organizers of the Scoliosis Research Society offers lessons learned and challenges for taking events virtual and a glimpse at the future of hybrid events.

Harvard Business Review

Pandemic leads to a significant increase in streaming video usage

A Kanopy-sponsored survey shows public libraries plan to expand their streaming media budgets significantly over the next three years. Including diverse content in future acquisitions is a priority.

Academic library strategy and budgeting during the covid-19 pandemic

If you work with libraries, you’re probably well aware of the recent Ithaka library director survey, “Academic Library Strategy and Budgeting during the Covid-19 Pandemic.” There are several interesting takeaways, but we especially find intriguing the planned increase in streaming media budgets.

First steps toward virtual meeting accessibility

ASAE gives a few tips on improving the accessibility of your virtual meetings. The author suggests three fundamentals are closed captioning, a sign language interpreter, and appropriate formatting of slides and handouts.

Cadmore in the News

Content still king in video age

Research Information interviewed Cadmore CEO Violaine Iglesias for their article “Content Still King in Video Age.” “There are too many benefits to collecting, creating and publishing the video content,” she notes, adding that few societies plan to stop offering a virtual option once in-person events resume.

Research information

Video is here. Time to embrace it.

In case you missed it, Scholarly Kitchen featured a guest post by Violaine where she outlines – and rebuts – 8 myths about video in scholarly communications. Perhaps the most pernicious? “Video is hard.”

Scholarly Kitchen

A lesson in resilience: The abrupt digital transformation of society conferences in 2020

Violaine and colleagues at the American Political Science Association published an article in Learned Publishing reviewing the great pivot of 2020 and how virtual and hybrid meetings can be made even better in years to come.

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