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#40 Future-Proofing Science Communication (with Stephan van Duin - Dutch Science Communicaiton, The Online Scientist)
Science Communication Accelerator - scicomX (scicomm, social media, and digital science marketing)
English - September 05, 2022 22:05 - 57 minutes - 53.5 MBScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
How can we future proof our science communication? And the whole science communication eco-system as a whole?
This topic i discussed with with Stephan van Duin who is the co-chair of the Dutch Science Communication Association, Founder of The Online Scientist and a Senior Advisor Science Communication at UMC Utrecht. In this podcast we discuss six thesis which you can find below, and later discuss these with members of the scicomX community. Thanks for coming around!
Theses Stephan
· We're not reaching a diverse enough audience.
· Scicomm suffers from the induced competition between academic institutions.
· The scicomm field is too fragmented.
Theses Julius
· Most organizations have not understood that brand is everything.
· The key to brand building is to create quality content at scale and it takes longer than you think.
· Researchers think that they neutral analysts, while they misjudge their potential as change makers.
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