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Segment:0 .
Welcome, everyone.
We're going to give it about one more minute, but it looks like. So many of you are prompt loving it. And then we'll kick off. OK, we might still get a few more people, but time is precious.
So welcome everyone. I'm Heather Stevens, SSP president for a few more months. And Sr. Consultant at Delta think, and I'm very excited to be here with you today. I'm joined by two of our esteemed members of leadership, Rebecca McLeod and Mike Dinatale, and we are going to go over for you the strategic priority priorities that everyone has been working on so hard over the last several months.
Next slide, Susan. So some of you may have heard about this effort, and we do undertake this at SSP. Every five years we get a group together executive committee, the board and also the committee chairs participate. And what we start with is a review of the SSP mission statement.
So if you haven't taken a look at it in a while, we looked at it quite closely. It is to advance scholarly publishing and communication and the professional development of our members through education, collaboration and networking. And it may look very simple, but we try to make sure that every single word counts. We also looked at next slide, the vision statement. So this is our hopes for how folks will see SSP.
SSP will be recognized by members and the global publishing community as the first place to turn for information and dialogue on current and emerging issues in scholarly communication. Next slide. So we do have a number of strategic goals that have been identified by SSP some time back. And you'll see when we go through the priorities that they flow.
And reinforce these strategic goals. So I just wanted to take just a moment to highlight them for you so that will help you connect the dots and, you know, take this back to your organizations. So our first strategic goal is to really embed diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility in all that we do. So we're always trying to be intentional with everything. The Dia committee has been great with their liaisons to every committee.
And, you know, we like to say Dia, you know, is if it's completely integrated, there's no way it can be stopped. You know, it's just it's in the DNA level. Second strategic goal is to make SSVF home for scholarly communications professionals at every career stage. There's been big efforts on this, and these efforts will continue to try to make sure as folks advance through their career.
That they have everything they need from SSP, and they're able to share that information and experience with others, whether they be their peers or whether they be early careerists and the like. Next slide Susan. Next up, engage with the global scholarly communications community. So we're constantly looking for activities where we can be broader, more broadly represented and have representation from those different areas of the world, both from publishing but also from the many important services companies, librarians and researchers that are also part of our broader community.
We also want to make sure we are consistently developing new content and services, so we're always having an eye out for what we can do in that space, how that can enhance membership and broaden the resources that will be available to the community. And then the fifth strategic goal on the next slide. Of course, if we didn't ensure SSP, fiscal sustainability, financial sustainability, we wouldn't have an organization that we could conduct all of these activities.
And so we've consistently been looking for opportunities to diversify revenue. We're extremely lucky that the annual meeting continues to be a success, but we're looking for ways to other programs and services to make sure that, you know, we have the support that's in place to do all these important things that we want to do. Next slide.
And all of this is to reinforce the value proposition of SSP. So SSP helps scholarly publishing professionals with networking, collaboration and professional development, as well as staying informed by providing educational opportunities and including encouraging community engagement. Next slide, please. So what we're going to do today, we're going to tag team it a little bit and go through these seven areas of strategic priorities that have been identified from 2025 to 2028.
But before we do part of the planning exercises that some of you may have participated in, I was challenged by our fearless Scholarly Kitchen editor in chief, David Crotty, to come up with a song, which I did sing during the planning exercises back in Boston, and I remembered its existence yesterday, and I went back and looked a bit at it. And if you will, humor me for a moment just to kick us off and get us all fired up, I will sing it for you.
So it's based on my heart's a stereo by gym Class Heroes, and it's called scenario. So here it goes. Plan a scenario. This is for you. So listen close. See our thoughts in sticky notes. Here's our scenario. We'll pump you up when you feel low.
This exercise, it was meant for you. So follow along with our scenario. If we were just a dusty industry upon a shelf. Would you count us out and write us off like everybody else? If you ask you to have our backs, could you manage that less ssp? Address it. Yeah, we can handle that. For what it's worth, we apologize for missing any gaps.
Sometimes uncertainty makes us feel like we might just crack. We tend to feel paralyzed. Let's try to get over that, because in the past, we've mounted bigger comebacks. Word Thank you for humoring me. And with that, I promise Rebecca and Mike that they would not have to sing. So promise fulfilled. And I will hand over to Mike, who's going to take the first two topic areas here.
Thank you guys. Hey there I am. So that's a tough act to follow, but I'm going to do my best. So Hi, everyone. I'm Mike, Natalia, I'm a member of the board. And I'm going to talk right through our infrastructure update plan. So SSPs website is going to be redesigned for I think we're targeting 2026.
The last refresh of the website was way back in 2013. So this is sort of overdue in a lot of ways. The website is such an integral piece of the member community and communications, and it's a primary marketing tool for the organization. So redesigning the website is an important piece of this infrastructure update. You know, adding modern features and functionality and mobile compatibility just will ensure overall a more positive user experience and help elevate the SSP brand.
Some of the goals for this modernization are enhanced accessibility. Multi-language support. You know, two issues that are increasingly important to our community. The, you know, a new website would also allow us to integrate artificial intelligence tools and a new taxonomy that we've built out for our content, really just provide opportunities for search access and the use of our existing content.
You know, I think with AI tools, you can think about things like better search and information gathering via like a chat bot and other things we're hoping to explore. And again, the taxonomy, it's really about making the content across our different silos more discoverable and connected. You know, think about using the taxonomy on articles posted to the website, our video library and Scholarly Kitchen posts, and just making it easy for people to discover what's out there.
All right. Next slide. So next talking about community engagement. Obviously bringing scholarly communications professionals and stakeholders together is sort of a staple of SSP. It's a big part of our value proposition and what we do. SSP is planning to expand the communities of interest networks.
Those are the coin groups that hopefully many of you have already participated in. And that program sort of connects individuals with similar interests, interests and challenges. What we're looking to do is hopefully foster deeper member engagement and connections, create new groups based on professional roles, groups for executives, groups for mid-level career folks, remote workers and managers.
There's providing opportunities for these folks to meet and discuss, and have stronger connections and engagement within the community. We're also rethinking regional events, aiming for more informal settings that will allow for face to face networking and discussion of the day's discourse. Not just that the panels you get at other SSP events, like the annual meeting or the new direction seminar, you know, some of the stuff's a little more outside the box.
I'll plug the upcoming Philadelphia meetup, which is at an event that's cleaning up a park. You know, it's just, you know, trying to find new and different ways for the membership to engage with each other at a regional setting. The other thing to discuss is that, you know, we're looking at ways to help the membership communicate better with itself. Communication channels and styles have been evolving and new technologies are emerging constantly.
And along the way, some very public social networks have become less popular within our community. So we're looking at, alternative communication platforms. Things like private social networks and Slack to engage emerging professionals within our community and establish professionals. You know, in sort of constant communication. You know, we would see year round events and communication that extends beyond our meetings and webinars.
It's easy to imagine how, you know, using a chat app or one of these alternative platforms. You know, virtual community discussions that could then be an Avenue to gauge interest in topical areas for things like New coin groups or just the, you know, the organization in general. So really excited about the things that are on the horizon here. Next slide.
I think that goes to Rebecca. Hi, everyone. I'm Rebecca McLeod. I'm on the board President-elect. And no I'm not going to sing. One of the our SSPs you know priorities has been, you know, helping our supporting members in their career development. And these priorities will include, you know, expanding our current offering of mentorship models.
So we have a traditional mentor to mentor and mentee program. And we have the fellowship program. So the idea is to experiment with other models, including group mentoring, reverse mentoring, peer to peer mentoring, and mean conference mentoring. And I think experimenting with these models will give us the opportunity to expand our support and outreach to mid and late career professionals. I'm always on this bandwagon.
I think that SSP does a great job with our support of early career, but I think we could do a better job in terms of supporting and becoming a more convenient space for mid to late career professionals. And I just want to say, given, what's going on right now in the industry and what could happen, in the coming year, I think having these, you know, having these kind of support groups almost, or mentoring groups will be really important going forward.
Next slide Susan. So professional development again, I think we've always done a wonderful job. But I think our goal here is to expand the training offerings to meet all the needs of members, no matter where they reside in the scholarly publishing ecosystem, and also no matter what level of career that they're in.
And then to come and then working on these different training exercises or roles and functions, so that no matter where you are, that you'll find something that's, that's meaningful for you. And then going forward, of course, this all can happen in one year. But, you know, we want to establish a pool of instructors, and then we'll have repeatable training content.
So that we're not coming up and reinventing the wheel each time. And so, you know, possible topics that we're thinking about are leadership management, technology skills, financial literacy. You know, also thinking of strategic planning or could be working, you know, working on your resume skills or something or recruiting. So there are all kinds of possible topics that obviously we're not going to do just in one year, but we're going to be expanding out the next few years.
Next slide. That's back to me. Yeah, that's back to you. Sorry Yeah. Thank singer. And I just wanted Thank you guys both and just I probably should have said, starting out, you know, we looked at every single activity that was going on and what we wanted to make sure we did more of and what were maybe some things we wanted to park.
You know, for later. And, you know, for all of these activities, both the ones that Mike mentioned in the coin groups and, and some of the training opportunities that Rebecca mentioned, we're particularly looking for new faces and new voices. So if you are an SSP regular presenter, but you have folks on your team that haven't had the opportunity to get out as much, you know, put them, put them forward or talk to them first, probably put them forward as, as, as somebody to be participating in some of these new things.
So I think those are great. So picking up for our last three areas of concentration revenue diversification. So we have some initiatives that are underway that we're categorizing as industry intelligence products. Some of you may have participated in the benchmarking study, which looked at compensation and benefits, and we'll continue to offer that.
And gather data and really interesting data. And then we're going to look at the possibility to collaborate around some topical reports on some aspects of scholarly publishing that, again, can add to additional revenue streams. And then our recognition program, I meant to go back and put the award epic awards logo in here, but you're going to be seeing a lot of that. So consider this a brief reprieve.
So I've been fortunate to be part of the epics awards team this year. Lots of hard work. I've mostly been an observer, but I think you're going to be so excited and thrilled as we roll this out and as it happens, for the first time in Baltimore. So we think this is going to be a really great thing for SSP and for members to get recognition for the things that they do.
So definitely stay tuned on that recognition program. Next slide. Susan deia initiatives I mentioned. You know, if it's in the organization's DNA, you can really never, you know, never go away. We are, you know, recommitting ourselves to this as one of our strategic priorities. Now more than ever. So we have a small group that's been looking at which particular dimensions of diversity we can work on first.
I'm also part of that group. So look for some announcements and information on that soon. We will be looking at where we have gaps in the existing SAP Data, as well as the workplace equity survey data, and trying to build up anything that we think is missing there. The board will continue to set some targets for these dimensions. And then the appropriate committees.
Who are already, you know, doing work in those spaces. You know, will be encouraged to carry that through with of course, our support towards making those goals. And we will regularly measure and report our progress. As we move forward. And so, you know, this is not a set it and forget it. This is going to be a part of our ongoing efforts. So more to come on that. Next slide, please.
And finally global engagement. We have seen a great effort and outcome from what's been called the global perspectives task force over recent years. You know, kudos to the folks who participated in that and kind of started that up from Square one. And we're happy to say that that task force will become a subcommittee of the Dia committee and will continue to be able to do the important work.
And, you know, in the same way that the Dia committee disperses out and makes sure that you have updates, I'm sure that the projects for the global perspectives task force sub subcommittee, we should have animation that put a line through that will be rolled out as well to you and your various committees. So I think that's going to be a very exciting. We're going to prioritize certain areas non US events as one looking for opportunities there.
So if you have ideas we would love to hear that. International collaborations. This could be with organizations or events and translation of SSP materials so we can reach a broader audience. As I mentioned, you do expect that the liaison structure will keep your committees informed of what's happening on the global level. So thank you for that. And I think that our next slide is the question slide.
Thank you. So I want to thank my co-presenters Rebecca and Mike. And then Susan. Yep Susan's taken off the spotlight so we can all see each other. I don't like it when I can just see me. Makes me nervous. But we are happy to take any questions. If you would like to, you can put your questions in the chat.
And if you want to raise your hand, it looks like I have the ability to allow you to talk. So you could actually ask your question. So maybe we've covered it adequately, but we want to give you that opportunity to weigh in. It could be a comment or it could be a question. So happy to see so many committee folks represented here today.
If no one has any questions, I do want to just make sure everyone saw in the chat that Melanie was doing a good commentary as we were speaking and adding some facts worth taking a look at if you missed it. Yep, and I got a pop up. Melanie, I don't know if that was you requesting to talk, because I think you can talk whenever you want to talk because you're Melanie.
And no, I didn't have any questions. OK, I popped up. Bill kasdorf has raised his hand. OK, let me see if I can allow to talk. So you need to unmute yourself, Bill. And then you should be able to talk. Great Well, I just have a comment because as at least some of, I've been involved with SSP for many decades, it's just really thrilling to see how SSP has evolved over the years.
It's just an absolutely fantastic organization. So so I'm proud that I'm still part of it after all these years. That's my comment. Thanks, Bill. Thank you. We're excited to have you continue to make such great contributions as well.
All right. Any last comments before we go our separate ways? The registration for the annual meeting is open. I'll just add some people. Earlier on committee calls were saying they hadn't booked their travel yet. Time is a tick, tick ticking away on that. Early bird is what? When is early bird?
And again I should know this. Melody can read. 18 18. OK yes. Yeah I got a book. I gotta book my flight. Yeah I was, I told Rebecca earlier, don't leave me hanging when I hand the gavel over because really silly then.
So thank you guys. And, you know, as you consider what your committees might do or as you might do personally to help us drive these things forward. Yep Susan, I'd love to catch a ride with you if I were closer. Definitely you know, reach out to us. This is the kickoff for these priorities. And, you know, they'll be underway for some time. So you will have an opportunity, and somebody may tap you on the shoulder and even ask you to do some stuff.
So be prepared. All right. Thanks, everyone. Have a wonderful day. Thanks again, Rebecca and Mike for your help and Susan for driving the slides. Bye bye. Thanks, everyone. Have a great day.
Thank you. Bye
Segment:0 .
Welcome, everyone.
We're going to give it about one more minute, but it looks like. So many of you are prompt loving it. And then we'll kick off. OK, we might still get a few more people, but time is precious.
So welcome everyone. I'm Heather Stevens, SSP president for a few more months. And Sr. Consultant at Delta think, and I'm very excited to be here with you today. I'm joined by two of our esteemed members of leadership, Rebecca McLeod and Mike Dinatale, and we are going to go over for you the strategic priority priorities that everyone has been working on so hard over the last several months.
Next slide, Susan. So some of you may have heard about this effort, and we do undertake this at SSP. Every five years we get a group together executive committee, the board and also the committee chairs participate. And what we start with is a review of the SSP mission statement.
So if you haven't taken a look at it in a while, we looked at it quite closely. It is to advance scholarly publishing and communication and the professional development of our members through education, collaboration and networking. And it may look very simple, but we try to make sure that every single word counts. We also looked at next slide, the vision statement. So this is our hopes for how folks will see SSP.
SSP will be recognized by members and the global publishing community as the first place to turn for information and dialogue on current and emerging issues in scholarly communication. Next slide. So we do have a number of strategic goals that have been identified by SSP some time back. And you'll see when we go through the priorities that they flow.
And reinforce these strategic goals. So I just wanted to take just a moment to highlight them for you so that will help you connect the dots and, you know, take this back to your organizations. So our first strategic goal is to really embed diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility in all that we do. So we're always trying to be intentional with everything. The Dia committee has been great with their liaisons to every committee.
And, you know, we like to say Dia, you know, is if it's completely integrated, there's no way it can be stopped. You know, it's just it's in the DNA level. Second strategic goal is to make SSVF home for scholarly communications professionals at every career stage. There's been big efforts on this, and these efforts will continue to try to make sure as folks advance through their career.
That they have everything they need from SSP, and they're able to share that information and experience with others, whether they be their peers or whether they be early careerists and the like. Next slide Susan. Next up, engage with the global scholarly communications community. So we're constantly looking for activities where we can be broader, more broadly represented and have representation from those different areas of the world, both from publishing but also from the many important services companies, librarians and researchers that are also part of our broader community.
We also want to make sure we are consistently developing new content and services, so we're always having an eye out for what we can do in that space, how that can enhance membership and broaden the resources that will be available to the community. And then the fifth strategic goal on the next slide. Of course, if we didn't ensure SSP, fiscal sustainability, financial sustainability, we wouldn't have an organization that we could conduct all of these activities.
And so we've consistently been looking for opportunities to diversify revenue. We're extremely lucky that the annual meeting continues to be a success, but we're looking for ways to other programs and services to make sure that, you know, we have the support that's in place to do all these important things that we want to do. Next slide.
And all of this is to reinforce the value proposition of SSP. So SSP helps scholarly publishing professionals with networking, collaboration and professional development, as well as staying informed by providing educational opportunities and including encouraging community engagement. Next slide, please. So what we're going to do today, we're going to tag team it a little bit and go through these seven areas of strategic priorities that have been identified from 2025 to 2028.
But before we do part of the planning exercises that some of you may have participated in, I was challenged by our fearless Scholarly Kitchen editor in chief, David Crotty, to come up with a song, which I did sing during the planning exercises back in Boston, and I remembered its existence yesterday, and I went back and looked a bit at it. And if you will, humor me for a moment just to kick us off and get us all fired up, I will sing it for you.
So it's based on my heart's a stereo by gym Class Heroes, and it's called scenario. So here it goes. Plan a scenario. This is for you. So listen close. See our thoughts in sticky notes. Here's our scenario. We'll pump you up when you feel low.
This exercise, it was meant for you. So follow along with our scenario. If we were just a dusty industry upon a shelf. Would you count us out and write us off like everybody else? If you ask you to have our backs, could you manage that less ssp? Address it. Yeah, we can handle that. For what it's worth, we apologize for missing any gaps.
Sometimes uncertainty makes us feel like we might just crack. We tend to feel paralyzed. Let's try to get over that, because in the past, we've mounted bigger comebacks. Word Thank you for humoring me. And with that, I promise Rebecca and Mike that they would not have to sing. So promise fulfilled. And I will hand over to Mike, who's going to take the first two topic areas here.
Thank you guys. Hey there I am. So that's a tough act to follow, but I'm going to do my best. So Hi, everyone. I'm Mike, Natalia, I'm a member of the board. And I'm going to talk right through our infrastructure update plan. So SSPs website is going to be redesigned for I think we're targeting 2026.
The last refresh of the website was way back in 2013. So this is sort of overdue in a lot of ways. The website is such an integral piece of the member community and communications, and it's a primary marketing tool for the organization. So redesigning the website is an important piece of this infrastructure update. You know, adding modern features and functionality and mobile compatibility just will ensure overall a more positive user experience and help elevate the SSP brand.
Some of the goals for this modernization are enhanced accessibility. Multi-language support. You know, two issues that are increasingly important to our community. The, you know, a new website would also allow us to integrate artificial intelligence tools and a new taxonomy that we've built out for our content, really just provide opportunities for search access and the use of our existing content.
You know, I think with AI tools, you can think about things like better search and information gathering via like a chat bot and other things we're hoping to explore. And again, the taxonomy, it's really about making the content across our different silos more discoverable and connected. You know, think about using the taxonomy on articles posted to the website, our video library and Scholarly Kitchen posts, and just making it easy for people to discover what's out there.
All right. Next slide. So next talking about community engagement. Obviously bringing scholarly communications professionals and stakeholders together is sort of a staple of SSP. It's a big part of our value proposition and what we do. SSP is planning to expand the communities of interest networks.
Those are the coin groups that hopefully many of you have already participated in. And that program sort of connects individuals with similar interests, interests and challenges. What we're looking to do is hopefully foster deeper member engagement and connections, create new groups based on professional roles, groups for executives, groups for mid-level career folks, remote workers and managers.
There's providing opportunities for these folks to meet and discuss, and have stronger connections and engagement within the community. We're also rethinking regional events, aiming for more informal settings that will allow for face to face networking and discussion of the day's discourse. Not just that the panels you get at other SSP events, like the annual meeting or the new direction seminar, you know, some of the stuff's a little more outside the box.
I'll plug the upcoming Philadelphia meetup, which is at an event that's cleaning up a park. You know, it's just, you know, trying to find new and different ways for the membership to engage with each other at a regional setting. The other thing to discuss is that, you know, we're looking at ways to help the membership communicate better with itself. Communication channels and styles have been evolving and new technologies are emerging constantly.
And along the way, some very public social networks have become less popular within our community. So we're looking at, alternative communication platforms. Things like private social networks and Slack to engage emerging professionals within our community and establish professionals. You know, in sort of constant communication. You know, we would see year round events and communication that extends beyond our meetings and webinars.
It's easy to imagine how, you know, using a chat app or one of these alternative platforms. You know, virtual community discussions that could then be an Avenue to gauge interest in topical areas for things like New coin groups or just the, you know, the organization in general. So really excited about the things that are on the horizon here. Next slide.
I think that goes to Rebecca. Hi, everyone. I'm Rebecca McLeod. I'm on the board President-elect. And no I'm not going to sing. One of the our SSPs you know priorities has been, you know, helping our supporting members in their career development. And these priorities will include, you know, expanding our current offering of mentorship models.
So we have a traditional mentor to mentor and mentee program. And we have the fellowship program. So the idea is to experiment with other models, including group mentoring, reverse mentoring, peer to peer mentoring, and mean conference mentoring. And I think experimenting with these models will give us the opportunity to expand our support and outreach to mid and late career professionals. I'm always on this bandwagon.
I think that SSP does a great job with our support of early career, but I think we could do a better job in terms of supporting and becoming a more convenient space for mid to late career professionals. And I just want to say, given, what's going on right now in the industry and what could happen, in the coming year, I think having these, you know, having these kind of support groups almost, or mentoring groups will be really important going forward.
Next slide Susan. So professional development again, I think we've always done a wonderful job. But I think our goal here is to expand the training offerings to meet all the needs of members, no matter where they reside in the scholarly publishing ecosystem, and also no matter what level of career that they're in.
And then to come and then working on these different training exercises or roles and functions, so that no matter where you are, that you'll find something that's, that's meaningful for you. And then going forward, of course, this all can happen in one year. But, you know, we want to establish a pool of instructors, and then we'll have repeatable training content.
So that we're not coming up and reinventing the wheel each time. And so, you know, possible topics that we're thinking about are leadership management, technology skills, financial literacy. You know, also thinking of strategic planning or could be working, you know, working on your resume skills or something or recruiting. So there are all kinds of possible topics that obviously we're not going to do just in one year, but we're going to be expanding out the next few years.
Next slide. That's back to me. Yeah, that's back to you. Sorry Yeah. Thank singer. And I just wanted Thank you guys both and just I probably should have said, starting out, you know, we looked at every single activity that was going on and what we wanted to make sure we did more of and what were maybe some things we wanted to park.
You know, for later. And, you know, for all of these activities, both the ones that Mike mentioned in the coin groups and, and some of the training opportunities that Rebecca mentioned, we're particularly looking for new faces and new voices. So if you are an SSP regular presenter, but you have folks on your team that haven't had the opportunity to get out as much, you know, put them, put them forward or talk to them first, probably put them forward as, as, as somebody to be participating in some of these new things.
So I think those are great. So picking up for our last three areas of concentration revenue diversification. So we have some initiatives that are underway that we're categorizing as industry intelligence products. Some of you may have participated in the benchmarking study, which looked at compensation and benefits, and we'll continue to offer that.
And gather data and really interesting data. And then we're going to look at the possibility to collaborate around some topical reports on some aspects of scholarly publishing that, again, can add to additional revenue streams. And then our recognition program, I meant to go back and put the award epic awards logo in here, but you're going to be seeing a lot of that. So consider this a brief reprieve.
So I've been fortunate to be part of the epics awards team this year. Lots of hard work. I've mostly been an observer, but I think you're going to be so excited and thrilled as we roll this out and as it happens, for the first time in Baltimore. So we think this is going to be a really great thing for SSP and for members to get recognition for the things that they do.
So definitely stay tuned on that recognition program. Next slide. Susan deia initiatives I mentioned. You know, if it's in the organization's DNA, you can really never, you know, never go away. We are, you know, recommitting ourselves to this as one of our strategic priorities. Now more than ever. So we have a small group that's been looking at which particular dimensions of diversity we can work on first.
I'm also part of that group. So look for some announcements and information on that soon. We will be looking at where we have gaps in the existing SAP Data, as well as the workplace equity survey data, and trying to build up anything that we think is missing there. The board will continue to set some targets for these dimensions. And then the appropriate committees.
Who are already, you know, doing work in those spaces. You know, will be encouraged to carry that through with of course, our support towards making those goals. And we will regularly measure and report our progress. As we move forward. And so, you know, this is not a set it and forget it. This is going to be a part of our ongoing efforts. So more to come on that. Next slide, please.
And finally global engagement. We have seen a great effort and outcome from what's been called the global perspectives task force over recent years. You know, kudos to the folks who participated in that and kind of started that up from Square one. And we're happy to say that that task force will become a subcommittee of the Dia committee and will continue to be able to do the important work.
And, you know, in the same way that the Dia committee disperses out and makes sure that you have updates, I'm sure that the projects for the global perspectives task force sub subcommittee, we should have animation that put a line through that will be rolled out as well to you and your various committees. So I think that's going to be a very exciting. We're going to prioritize certain areas non US events as one looking for opportunities there.
So if you have ideas we would love to hear that. International collaborations. This could be with organizations or events and translation of SSP materials so we can reach a broader audience. As I mentioned, you do expect that the liaison structure will keep your committees informed of what's happening on the global level. So thank you for that. And I think that our next slide is the question slide.
Thank you. So I want to thank my co-presenters Rebecca and Mike. And then Susan. Yep Susan's taken off the spotlight so we can all see each other. I don't like it when I can just see me. Makes me nervous. But we are happy to take any questions. If you would like to, you can put your questions in the chat.
And if you want to raise your hand, it looks like I have the ability to allow you to talk. So you could actually ask your question. So maybe we've covered it adequately, but we want to give you that opportunity to weigh in. It could be a comment or it could be a question. So happy to see so many committee folks represented here today.
If no one has any questions, I do want to just make sure everyone saw in the chat that Melanie was doing a good commentary as we were speaking and adding some facts worth taking a look at if you missed it. Yep, and I got a pop up. Melanie, I don't know if that was you requesting to talk, because I think you can talk whenever you want to talk because you're Melanie.
And no, I didn't have any questions. OK, I popped up. Bill kasdorf has raised his hand. OK, let me see if I can allow to talk. So you need to unmute yourself, Bill. And then you should be able to talk. Great Well, I just have a comment because as at least some of, I've been involved with SSP for many decades, it's just really thrilling to see how SSP has evolved over the years.
It's just an absolutely fantastic organization. So so I'm proud that I'm still part of it after all these years. That's my comment. Thanks, Bill. Thank you. We're excited to have you continue to make such great contributions as well.
All right. Any last comments before we go our separate ways? The registration for the annual meeting is open. I'll just add some people. Earlier on committee calls were saying they hadn't booked their travel yet. Time is a tick, tick ticking away on that. Early bird is what? When is early bird?
And again I should know this. Melody can read. 18 18. OK yes. Yeah I got a book. I gotta book my flight. Yeah I was, I told Rebecca earlier, don't leave me hanging when I hand the gavel over because really silly then.
So thank you guys. And, you know, as you consider what your committees might do or as you might do personally to help us drive these things forward. Yep Susan, I'd love to catch a ride with you if I were closer. Definitely you know, reach out to us. This is the kickoff for these priorities. And, you know, they'll be underway for some time. So you will have an opportunity, and somebody may tap you on the shoulder and even ask you to do some stuff.
So be prepared. All right. Thanks, everyone. Have a wonderful day. Thanks again, Rebecca and Mike for your help and Susan for driving the slides. Bye bye. Thanks, everyone. Have a great day.
Thank you. Bye
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