IWMW blogs

How well-used was the IWMW 2010 blog? Looking at the Google Analytics summaries for the month of July 2010 the following information is available. During July there were 2,696 visits. As might be expected, and illustrated in the graph, the blog was visited the most during the three days of the event, with the peak of [...]

The sigm.ma search engine is described as a ‘Semantic Information Mashup’ service.   If you search for ‘iwmw10 ‘ you will find a whole host of resources, most, if not all, of which appear to relate to the IWMW 2010 event.  The search results tend to come from structured information sources such as blogs, popular Social Web services and [...]

We used a blog for the first time to support the IWMW 2009 event and felt that it would be worth continuing to provide a blog at this year’s event.  We also decided to use an in-house blog which enabled us to make use of various WordPress features which are not available on WordPress.com, in [...]

As might be expected many participants at IWMW events are following the IWMW Twitter account. We use this account to keep participants informed of news and developments. We have also set up auto-follow so that the iwmw account will automatically follow new followers (although we will unfollow those who aren’t directly involved in the IWMW event).  This [...]

What is the IWMW event about?  Marieke Guy and Brian Kelly have given some thought to the event and reflected on how it has developed over the years.  In brief we feel that the IWMW event: Aims to be the premier event for members of institutional Web teams in UK higher education. Seeks to provide a forum [...]

The IWMW events have always sought to provide an opportunity for experimentation  on various aspects with emerging new Web technologies.  In the past couple of years we have encouraged use of Twitter to support discussions at the event. Whilst the use of a Twitter event back channel  may no longer be regarded as innovative (although [...]

The IWMW events provide an opportunity for the evaluation of new technologies and this year’s event is no exception, allowing delegates to gain experiences of various aspects of the mobile Web. We will be providing an opportunity for delegates to  familiarise themselves with location-based sharing services such as FourSquare and Gowalla.  I will visit the main locations [...]

The Web sites for all IWMW events since it was started back in 1997 are still available. Over the past couple of years we have migrated information about the events to a series of RSS files, including RSS files of the speakers and workshop facilitators at the events. Yahoo Pipes has been used to merge together these files. [...]

We are pleased to announce that, thanks to the sponsorship provided by Statistics into Decisions (or SiD) , we are able to offer a limited number of free places to participants who would like to attend the IWMW 2010 but are unable to do so due to lack of institutional support. Statistics into Decisions help clients understand their [...]

If you are attending IWMW 2010 would you be interested in sharing your interest in the event on your personal networks or on a number of popular social recommender services?  Or perhaps you would like to recommend particular talks or sessions at the event. We are currently evaluating the OpenLike protocol which is described as ” an open [...]

Contributing to the IWMW 2010 Blog The initial posts published on this blog have provided introductions to the IWMW 2010 organisers together with a summary of many of the areas which will be addressed at this year’s event. In addition to posts from the organisers we would also welcome contributions from the wider community. This opportunity might [...]

Use of Blogs and Social Networks at Previous Events For the IWMW 2008 event we made use of a Ning social network to provide a forum for discussions and also an opportunity to evaluate the potential of social networking software to support an event.  The service was easy to set up and (at the time) there was no costs [...]

What To Expect? This is the fourteenth in the IWMW series of events , which was launched in July 1997 – just two months after the Labour party was elected into power.  That now seems a very long time ago! People who have attended IWMW events over the years will be familiar with the format of this year’s [...]

Doing The Day Job In addition to a number of specific areas (such as the Mobile Technologies , the Social Web and Linked Data and RDFa , together with the  context of Economic Challenges ) which have been summarised on this blog, the IWMW 2010 event will, of course, address the various  mainstream aspects of providing institutional Web services – the day-to-day responsibilities of [...]

The Importance of the Social Web It is probably true to say that the increasing importance of the Social Web in supporting institutional activities was not expected within many educational institutions. But we now know that social networking environments, such as blogs, micro-blogging services such as Twitter and social networking services such as Facebook do have [...]

As part of the recent government announcement on IT cutbacks the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announced that it is to cut funding for the Institute of Web Science at Southampton University, worth £5 million this year. Despite this news, Tim Berners-Lee has suggested that the ” Web Science future is bright ” and pointed out that: “It is [...]

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Importance of Mobile Technologies The high level of interest in use of mobile technologies by higher educational institutions is apparent from the popularity of the recent Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University . As described by Andy Powell in a post on The implications of mobile… or “carry on up the smart phone” which summarised the event, Chris Sexton [...]

I’m Brian Kelly and I set up the IWMW series of events back in 1997.  I was chair of the event until 2005 and since then have been the co-chair with my colleage Marieke Guy. I am the only person to have attended all 13 previous events and am fascinated to see how the Web management [...]