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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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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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I thought it would be interesting and fun to make my plenary session at IWMW11 a bit more interactive than simply me standing up and waffling in front of a bunch of slides . Here’s a few words about what I did and how I did it, plus some feedback from the interactive parts of the talk, and [...]

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 [...]

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…