http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/2010/07/15/session-summary-so-what-do-you-do-exactly/ Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/2010/07/15/session-summary-so-what-do-you-do-exactly/#comment-62 IWMW 2010: day two « Web Services Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:42:36 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/?p=674#comment-62 [...] Ranjit Sidhu’s talk was also excellent, and was about turning statistics into decisions. Basically it was the idea that we need to talk about value in terms of actual monetary value, and compare the cost of doing things online to the cost of doing things offline. For example, you can work out the cost of applying online and downloading a PDF of the prospectus (or browsing the prospectus online) compared with the cost of sending out hard copies of brochures and the prospectus, and online is cheaper. You can also display these metrics on a dynamic dashboard, showing increased traffic, number of applications generated, and so on. [...] [...] Ranjit Sidhu’s talk was also excellent, and was about turning statistics into decisions. Basically it was the idea that we need to talk about value in terms of actual monetary value, and compare the cost of doing things online to the cost of doing things offline. For example, you can work out the cost of applying online and downloading a PDF of the prospectus (or browsing the prospectus online) compared with the cost of sending out hard copies of brochures and the prospectus, and online is cheaper. You can also display these metrics on a dynamic dashboard, showing increased traffic, number of applications generated, and so on. [...]

]]> http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/2010/07/15/session-summary-so-what-do-you-do-exactly/#comment-61 Initial Reflections on IWMW 2010 « UK Web Focus Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:27:29 +0000 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/?p=674#comment-61 [...] As described by Linda Bewley (who, appropriately, benefitted from of the sponsored places) in her report on the talk on the IMW 2010 blog "Ranjit raised the question of whether web teams can take lessons from the for-profit sector in [...] [...] As described by Linda Bewley (who, appropriately, benefitted from of the sponsored places) in her report on the talk on the IMW 2010 blog "Ranjit raised the question of whether web teams can take lessons from the for-profit sector in [...]

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