IWMW blogs

In bringing IWMW11 to a close, Brian Kelly invited a number of web managers to share their experiences and reflect on what the event and the community had contributed to their professional practices… Milly Shaw from the University of Sunderland described their recent experiments with student bloggers, who were encouraged to blog about university life as a [...]

In the final instalment of our series of IWMW11 take aways, Chris Gutteridge from the University of Southampton gives us a succinct summary of what he has taken away from the event…

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Paul Walk from UKOLN introduced us to the idea of the strategic developer and the work of the DevCSI project to foster innovation through local developers in order to create an environment in which strategic developers can emerge to benefit the sector.

Dave Challis from the University of Southampton describes his IWMW11 take aways for us in this short video interview…

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Dave Raggett from the University of the West of England used his plenary talk to discuss the issue of online privacy, particularly in view of recent EU legislation regarding the use of cookies.

Paul Wise from the Aberystwyth University gives us his light-hearted reflections on IWMW11 in this short video interview…

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Martin Hamilton walked the audience through key lessons derived from his experience leading the Google Apps implementation at Loughborough University and the Google Apps for Education UK User Group, and subsequently co-authoring an institutional Web 2.0 good practice guide.

In his almost obligatory annual video interview for IWMW, Miles Banbery from the University of Kent reflects on the quality of the sessions at this year’s IWMW and discusses the length of his take away list…

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Following on the theme of search, Professor Melius Weideman from Cape Peninsula University presented his findings following a study of UK HEI websites from the perspective of a search engine crawler.

In this short video interview, Debbie Nicholson from the University of Essex discusses the positive impact that IWMW has made on the work of her team since last year’s event and reflects on the value of this year’s workshop…

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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 .

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…

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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 Duran from the University of Girona reflects on his first time at IWMW, and draws [...]

  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 activity data, some of which are good, and some of which are bad…  

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 the strongest theme was that web teams are increasingly being asked to support marketing departments to help amplify university open [...]

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 find out more, Nicola’s presentation is available on Prezi . Her notes are also available on Google Docs [...]

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 slides on Slideshare . Amber blogged before her talk to outline some of the ideas she would be exploring. Here’s [...]

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…

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 and how web teams might fit into this landscape…

IWMW first-timer Martin Hamilton from Loughborough University explains what he will be taking away from the event and the value of the experience in this short video interview … Video clip of Martin Hamilton at IWMW10 from the UKOLN Vimeo account . If you are unable to view this video, please view the video on Vimeo [...]