Publications and Social Media Committee – by Massimiliano Musi Newsletter 2/2023
The Publications and Social Media Committee provide a brief update of the work it has been engaged with throughout the past year mainly in relation to the Yearbook, LinkedIn, Website, and Newsletter.
Yearbook
After having collected, in the first months of the year, all the materials that make-up the three parts of the biennial Yearbook 2021/2022, it has been published and made available also in paper version for the participants of the CMI Conference in Montreal.
In the meantime, the members of the Committee have begun to collect the documents intended to be published in the Yearbook 2023, which is once again an annual rather than a biennial one.
In this latter regard, it was decided to publish in the Yearbook both the six-monthly reports of the International Working Groups and Standing Committees, and the ppt presentations with their synopsis, in case a speaker in a CMI event is not able to provide a full paper related to her/his own speech.
Throughout the first couple of months of the year 2023, the Committee has launched the public LinkedIn page in addition to its already existing private members group. The audience’s engagement on LinkedIn has increased exponentially throughout the first few months of the year attracting more and more people to find out about, and in turn form part of the CMI.
Website
The website has been updated regularly, having published all updates and ongoing matters covering a wide spectrum of news items ranging from news on Maritime Law Associations, Standing Committees, Consultative Members, MLA Meetings, the Malta Symposium, the CMI Montreal Colloquium and updates on the Convention of Judicial Sales along with obituaries amongst other matters.
Newsletter
The first months also saw the launch of the first electronic-newsletter 1/2023 which was very well received by the public. Whilst building on the foundations of the previous newsletters, the newsletter passed through an overhaul to now include a fresh digitalised look along with the addition of new sections and headings.