IWMW blogs

The time has come to close the IWMW 2011 blog as we no longer intend to publish any more significant posts. The blog will remain here as a resource for you to use though comments have now been closed. Blog Statistics We are publishing the following statistics for future reference. They are intended to inform others about [...]

During IWMW’s life we’ve always done our best to make sure that details reach the right target audience. Once you’ve been to IWMW and are in the loop you’re more than likely to hear about when the next one will be; but there may be people we’d like to come along but who don’t find [...]

It’s great to see so many blog posts about this year’s event. Here are the ones we’ve collected so far: General Richard Nurse – Libwebrarian: IWMW 2010 Nicola Osbourne – IWMW 2011 Live blog Kris Collins – IWMW Event 2011: Responding to change Brian Kelly – New Opportunities for the Institutional Web Management Community Plenaries Paul Walk – The Strategic Developer at IWMW11 Martin Hamilton – Embedding Web 2.0 [...]

Gary Rowntree, UK Account Manager for Siteimprove Ltd , has written a blog post for us on the results of the SiteImprove competition they ran from the exhibition stand. ********* Firstly, thanks to the UKOLN team and University of Reading for hosting another great IWMW event. It was great to see so many familiar faces and equally [...]

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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 view of the JISC Legal role . We then used the voting pads to decide on which legal issue we [...]

If you are going to be about tonight (Monday 25th) and would like to meet for a drink and a chat then we will be about in the Park House Bar from 8pm.

Park House Bar is number 8 on the Whiteknights map.

The bar serves food till 8pm.

This year we are trying something a little different and will be using Adobe Connect to stream the plenary talks . One of the key reasons for us using Connect, rather than another live streaming service, is that we feel it provides a unified space for the end user: it pulls together video of the speaker, a twitter feed [...]

All attendees of this year’s IWMW have the chance to enter a competition to win a Kindle. Siteimprove are offering the prize as part of an effort to help raise the awareness in the potential to save money through having the best results possible on your website’s internal search engine. SearchImprove, Siteimprove’s hosted internal search engine, gives you [...]

Once again IWMW have been lucky enough to be able to offer a number of sponsored places for those who haven’t been able to secure institutional support for this year’s event. This year Statistics into Decisions (or SiD) has sponsored 2 places and Navopia has sponsored one. Last year our sponsored delegates did a fantastic job of helping out [...]

JISC Call JISC has announced a HEFCE funded programme designed to help prepare the sector for increasing demands on course data. Information about the call is available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities.aspx All eligible institutions are invited to take part in Stage 1, by submitting a letter of commitment (deadline 12:00 noon UK time on Wednesday 7 September 2011) signed [...]

Thanks to sponsorship provided by Statistics into Decisions (or SiD) and Navopia we are pleased to offer a limited number of free places to participants who would like to attend the IWMW 2011 but are unable to do so due to lack of institutional support. Statistics into Decisions Statistics into Decisions help clients understand their online space with [...]

There is now an IWMW Scoop.it topic . Scoop.it is a fairly new site that ” allows you to be the curator of your favorite topic “. You do this by creating a topic-centric media by adding relevant RSS streams. Brian Kelly has recently more on the implications of using scoop.it in his post Potential for Scoop.it at Events . At the moment [...]

On Friday we announced that a DevCSI workshop on Open Data and the Institutional Web will take place on the day before IWMW 2011. This will allow those involved in institutional Web management activities who have a particular interest in open data to participate in the workshop. The workshop will continue on the opening morning of [...]

Beginning Monday 25th July, the day before the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011 starts, DevCSI will be running a free event for developers looking at hacking content, systems and services for institutional/open data. Lunch, refreshments and accommodation will be provided. The event is aimed at developers, web developers, information specilists, data managers and policy makers working in Further [...]

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 presence will no longer run. In their place will be the following sessions: A4: The Web Management Community: Beyond [...]

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 it at this year’s IWMW. At previous IWMW events the topic has been introduced (e.g. 2009′s The [...]

Voice search for the desktop, Google Instant Pages, faster searching, image searching, personalised searches…searching on the Web has refused to sit still. This year IWMW has two plenary talks exploring institutional Web sites and their relationship with search engines. In Search Engines in the fight against Institutional Impecuniousness David Hawking, Chief Scientist at the internet and [...]