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Plenary 4: Search Engines in the fight against Institutional Impecuniousness

In his plenary presentation, David Hawking, Chief Scientist at Funnelback, discussed the importance of search for HE websites and how to improve the search experience for visitors. View this presentation on Slideshare. “ Hawking: HEI are businesses. Everyone who runs … Continue reading

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IWMW11 Take Aways: Cress Rolfe

In the second of our series of IWMW11 take aways, Cress Rolfe from Bournemouth University discusses what she got out of IWMW11, including practical solutions to problems she had been grappling with prior to the event… View this video on … Continue reading

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IWMW11 Take Aways: Miquel Duran

We asked a selection of delegates to explain what they found valuable about IWMW11 and to describe the impact that IWMW has had for them and their institutions. In the first of this series of short video interviews, Professor Miquel … Continue reading

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Plenary 3: Using activity data to support your users

  Tom Franklin from the University of Manchester and Franklin Consulting discussed some of the issues that need to be addressed if you want to use activity data to inform your work.   Tom began by discussing the uses of … Continue reading

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B3: The Economical Way to Amplify Your Event

This session “ate its own dog food” by amplifying itself using free tools, including a free live video stream using both Livestream and Bambuser, Slideshare, and a Netvibes page. People gave a variety of reasons for attending this workshop, but … Continue reading

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A7: Listen, Repeat, Learn – Reflections

In this short video interview, Nicola Osborne reflects on her parallel session “Listen, Repeat, Learn: How to use Social Media Conversations and Activities to Measure and Demonstrate Impact and Improve Engagement.” View this video at Vimeo. If you want to … Continue reading

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Plenary 2: Marketing and Other Dirty Words

Amber Thomas from JISC discussed how institutional repositories, open educational resources, podcasts, digitised library resources, and academic blogs can be used to maximise impact, aid in marketing and recruitment, and increase engagement with the world outside the university. View Amber’s … Continue reading

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Plenary 1: OK, we know what you do, so how much is it worth?

Ranjit Sidhu from SiD presented some of the combined data and analysis that he has been doing with universities, which include sector values in pounds… Ranjit began by making the case for collecting and presenting data, and the power that … Continue reading

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The Opening of IWMW 2011

Brian Kelly and Marieke Guy have opened the 15th International Web Management Workshop at the University of Reading. We were welcomed to the University of Reading by the Director of External Affairs, Shaun Horan, who provided a context to the landscape for universities … Continue reading

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