2012 – An Exciting Year Ahead

JANUARY 04, 2012 12:01 AM| no comments

2012 is shaping up to be a big year. With both the London Olympics and US Presidential elections on the agenda there’s plenty to look forward to for television folks everywhere.

And here at WebsEdge we’re no exception. We’ve three major events in January alone with two inside the first week. We’re off to Chicago to produce Historians TV for the AHA’s 126th Annual meeting and to Boston for the Joint Mathematics Meeting – the world’s largest mathematics meeting.

And these are interesting times for both groups. The venues will be bursting at the seams with a combined audience of around 15, 000 professors, graduate students and undergraduates. And as we go around conducting interviews and putting together television programmes we’ll be struck by the depth, the diversity and the sheer sense of optimism that abounds in both these meetings.

But there’s no doubt that both of these meetings also take place against a very challenging budget cycle. As politicians look to make federal spending cuts there is less money to fund many important programs. Take the ‘Teaching American History’ grants for example which have just been eliminated from the 2012 Federal Budget.

But what also strikes me is the new wave of innovation that is tackling both the need to compete on a global scale and ever declining budgets. This may be the 126th annual meeting of the American Historical Association but one of the main themes for discussion is the use of digital technology in all it’s forms. And I think that’s what drives these organisations and their members forward. Of course the challenges are great. But we’ve been here before. And the only way through is by constantly challenging ourselves to be more relevant in the future than we’ve been in the past.

Stephen Horn, CEO

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