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"The IWMW event provides an opportunity for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services to hear about institutional case studies, national initiatives and emerging technologies and to actively participate in a number of parallel sessions."

IWMW 2010 is the fourteenth workshop. This year's theme is 'The Web in Turbulent Times'.
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Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010

Plenary Talk P1: The Web in Turbulent Times

Title:
P1: The Web in Turbulent Times
Session Tag:
#P1
Time:
Monday 12 July 14:00-14:45
Speaker:
Chris Sexton, Director of Corporate Information and Computing Services, University of Sheffield.
Abstract:
This talk will look at turbulent times from the perspective of an IT Director. What challenges are we as IT departments facing, what challenges are HEIs facing that we can help with, and what impact on our services are these challenges going to have?

Contact Details

Chris Sexton
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield
UK
S10 2TN
Phone: +44 (0) 114 222 1113
Email:

 

Biography

Photo of Chris SextonChris Sexton is Director of Corporate Information and Computing Services at the University of Sheffield.

Materials

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Note that the Twitter captioning is taken from the TwapperKeeper archive for the #iwmw10 tag. The first tweet in the caption was posted at Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:54:02 +0000 GMT (13:54:02 BST). The final tweet was posted at Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:45:12 +0000 (14:45 BST).

Also note that a captioned video containing the official tweets from the @iwmwlive account is also available.

 


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