Category Archives: Workshops

A5: Your Top Ten Legal Issues To Be Thinking About Now

Posted on July 26, 2011 by m.guy

In parallel session A5: Your Top Ten Legal Issues To Be Thinking About Now the facilitator Jason Miles-Campbell applauded us for turning up to his session on a hot, Tuesday afternoon and started off by giving us a brief over … Continue reading →

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A7: Listen, Repeat, Learn

Posted on July 21, 2011 by nicolaosborne

My name is Nicola Osborne and I am the Social Media Officer for EDINA where I advise colleagues working on our various projects and services in how to make the best use of social media – both to connect with … Continue reading →

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B7: Maximising Institutional Webmaster Impact

Posted on July 19, 2011 by guest

This may be a bit late in the day considering how long Marieke has been asking us all to say something about our upcoming IWMW2011 sessions, but I’m afraid the allocated time for a particular “job” always gets lumped toward … Continue reading →

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Sharing Resources From Parallel Sessions

Posted on July 12, 2011 by briankelly

Background Since the Institutional Web Management Workshop series was launched back in 1997 we have always ensured that the slides used by the plenary speakers were made publicly available – so you can still see the slides from IWMW 1997 … Continue reading →

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Posted on June 27, 2011 by m.guy

There have been a few changes to sessions originally advertised. Piero Tintori can no longer attend this year’s evebt so his sessions A4: Website personalisation for more effective student recruitment and engagement and B3: Building a low cost mobile Web … Continue reading →

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Goin’ Mobile

Posted on June 23, 2011 by m.guy

Can you remember when mobiles were all about making phone calls? These days mobiles can do it all… Consideration for the mobile Web is becoming an increasingly important area for HE and FE institutions and we’d be fools to ignore … Continue reading →

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B5: Open data; a little goes a long Way

Posted on June 21, 2011 by guest

This year’s parallel is a follow up to the one I (Chris Gutteridge) gave last year entitled Looking at Linked Data. In March 2011, the University of Southampton launched the data.southampton.ac.uk service with some core datasets from the university. So … Continue reading →

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Putting the Usefulness back into Social Networking

Posted on June 17, 2011 by m.guy

The term Web 2.0 almost seems dated. We have been using social networking services for many years now; as individuals and on behalf of our institutions. But are we doing it right? Are we truly making the most out of … Continue reading →

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A6: Birds of a Feather: The Others

Posted on June 16, 2011 by jukesie

Over the years I’ve been to a few IWMWs (five or six I think) – as a delegate, a speaker, a committee member and even a sponsor. I know the organisers pretty well and I’ve always encouraged my team members … Continue reading →

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Numbers Matter!

Posted on June 15, 2011 by m.guy

It’s been an interesting year for Higher Education. Last year we were very much in the dark regarding where we stood financially. This year things are a lot clearer. The comprehensive spending review outlined cuts of 40% in teaching budgets … Continue reading →

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