BookLife – Your Guide to Self-Publishing
Welcome to the digital edition of BookLife, Publishers Weekly’s monthly supplement dedicated to all things self-publishing. This edition contains interviews with authors, book announcements, listings, news, features, analysis, and more. Click here to subscribe and read the latest issue.
VR, AR and other Digital Tools for Remote Performance Webinar – Thursday, August 20
Remote performances can easily look like hastily put together film, and theatre suffers in the comparison. But in a post-COVID-19 world, what other options are there? In this session, Alex Coulombe (Agile Lens), Jasper Tarr (Adventure Lab), Brendan Bradley (The Jigsaw Ensemble), and Heather Harvey (Black Revolutionary Theater Workshop ) walk you through the latest case studies and tech tools being successfully employed by theatre-makers to broadcast remote performances, many of which require little to no investment. You’ll learn to think of these tools as not something that threatens the future of theatre, but instead will allow it to spread its core values into many new and exciting forms. Like light through a prism, sometimes the same narrative material can yield myriad iterations tailored for different audiences. Click here to register for the event.
Dow Jones News Fund Journalism Conventions – Deadline date to apply – Sunday, August 30
The Dow Jones News Fund invites college students interested in journalism or working for student media to apply for free registration to attend virtual journalism conventions.
The News Fund will provide free registrations to these upcoming conferences:
- Society of Professional Journalists, Sept. 12-13
- Online News Association, Oct. 1-16
Applicants should submit this form, which requires a 500-word essay, resume and contact information for one journalistic reference. Deadline to apply for both is Sunday, Aug. 30 at midnight.
As part of their sponsorship, each student will write about their experience, summarize a panel or interview with a fellow journalist at the convention, which may be published on the News Fund website and social media.
Koby Altman ’04 – General Manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers
This futureforward segment features Koby Altman general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The 2016 NBA champions. Koby is a 2004 graduate of Middlebury College and an Alumni Trustee of the College. He is also on the National Board of Directors of the Posse Foundation, which identifies recruits and trains individuals with extraordinary leadership potential, providing full tuition leadership scholarship from Posse partner colleges and universities, including Middlebury. Koby is joining us to give us his vantage point on how the pandemic environment has affected his work, what the future outlook is for the sports entertainment field and what action steps current students may want to consider to position themselves to enter this field in the future.
Click here to access the interview and additional resources to gain insight about the sports entertainment field.
How to get organized for an art exhibition (and make galleries love you in the process)
You would think that all of the work in preparing for an exhibition lies in the making of the physical artwork. Nope. That is only one part of the overall exhibition organization machine. Of course, making the work is a huge part of the process (and arguable the most important part) but there are loads of other things that need to be done to make sure that an exhibition runs smoothly. Each artwork needs to be photographed, framed, and catalogued. Certificates of authenticity need to be created and assigned to each piece. The artworks then need to be safely wrapped for delivery to the gallery. Finally, you need to make sure that the gallery has the correct inventory information for each artwork in the show.
Click here to read how one artist has established a good system to make all the last-minute prep as streamlined as possible.
Brooklyn Book Fest Goes Virtual for 2020
The 15th annual Brooklyn Book Festival, which will take place September 28-October 5 this year, will be held entirely virtually due to pandemic-related restrictions on public gatherings.
The festival will launch on September 28 with Bookends, a week-long series of special digital literary events, including LGBTQ- and Latinx-focused events, which will precede the two main days of the festival: Children’s Day, featuring a virtual draw-off competition between cartoonists, on October 3, and Festival Day on October 4. Announced today by festival founders and coproducers Carolyn Greer and Liz Koch, this year’s all-virtual Brooklyn Book Festival will be presented using pre-recorded, live-streamed panel and interview events hosted on the Zoom platform and featuring more than 150 authors participating from around the globe. Click here to learn more about this event!
Entertainment Industry Voices— KS and R: Appetite for social grows as video becomes main course
What is social video and why should you care? It’s the video clips your friends and family share on Facebook, the funny prank reel you watched on repeat on YouTube and the newest dance challenge you tried to master on TikTok. These videos have become an increasingly important part of the fabric of entertainment. For some, this content represents an opportunity to reinvent what entertainment means for consumers with companies like Facebook spending over a billion dollars a year on content. The very DNA of social networks have become intertwined with video. Of the three or more hours a day consumers spend on social media, more than half of that time is spent watching videos on these platforms from news and talk shows to music videos and makeup tutorials. Click here to read the complete article co-authored by Midd alum George Chan ’05.
New and Forthcoming Kids’ and YA Books by Black Creators
Last month, PW compiled a large collection of newly published recommended fiction and nonfiction about race and activism from creators of color, as well as suggested fiction that celebrates the diversity of the Black experience. Now they are adding a list of noteworthy forthcoming titles, due out in the remainder of 2020. Click here for the list!
The Pandemic Is Redefining the Customer Experience
Even before the coronavirus pandemic upended business as usual, the use of automation for data analysis had been on the upswing, jumping to 64 percent among large B2B brands and organizations, according to Adobe’s 2020 Digital Trends report. That’s compared to 55 percent in 2018.
The report, which took the pulse of 12,740 marketers, agencies, and marketing technology vendors, also found that companies that enhanced their customer experience processes via artificial intelligence and data analysis were three times more likely than their peers to have significantly exceeded their top business goals. Click here to read the complete article.
Fall Internship Opportunity: Covid Act Now
Covid Act Now is a non-profit 501(c)(3) startup working on COVID disease intelligence
Covid Act Now is backed by Stanford and Georgetown University, and was built by a multidisciplinary team including former Googlers and other technologists. Our mission is to create a national shared understanding of COVID so that governments, health officials, local decision makers, and the public can make informed decisions in response to the pandemic.
Because two Middlebury students are going back to school, the Partnerships team is looking for full-time interns to help out this fall. This position is ideal for recent grads and students who aren’t returning in the fall.
As a Strategy & Operations interns, you will manage relationships and join calls with many state and local governments and epidemiologists, small businesses, and large corporations such as IBM, who ingests our data to advise the Department of Defense, Netflix, and General Mills. Because Covid Act Now is constantly growing and changing, you will be at the forefront of writing our corporate usage license, as well as several large grants, backed by Massachusetts General Hospital.
Here is the link to a Google doc explaining more about the position. Although it is unpaid, work with Covid Act Now is extremely rewarding.