With Apologies for cross posting


The next meeting of the London Web Editors group, .gamut, will be on
Monday 12th November 2001 at City University Business School, London EC2.

The speaker will be Andrew Aird, Director of Web Services at Kings
College, London. As usual there will be opportunity for discussion, debate
and contact with others in the web business.

.gamut is open to all with an interest in the business of managing the web
in education, central and local government and the museums, galleries and
voluntary sectors. .gamut is at present hosted by City University and most
meetings are held at the Business School in the Barbican Centre.

For instructions on how to find the Business School see:

http://www.business.city.ac.uk/about/how_to_find_us.html

the meeting will be held in room 1416 on level 9.

No charge is made for .gamut meetings - we only ask that you let Robert
Bristow ([log in to unmask]) know if you are coming. Tea, coffee and soft
drinks will be available on arrival.

Future topics lined up include Web Application Servers and the
Methodological implications of internet mediated research.

With best wishes

Bill Mackintosh (City University Web Services Manager)
Robert Bristow (City University Business School Web Manager)



Details


Virtually everything virtually everywhere: pursuing a radical web strategy
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------
There are signs that HE is finally waking up to the limitles
opportunities that the web offers, in the wake of revolution in the
banking, travel and music industries. Web managers are beginning to find
themselves in a crucial, and increasingly powerful position wihin their
institutions but often without that vital roadmap, telescope or crystal
ball.

In other words, it's time to stop paying lip-service to that dog-eared
'strategic consultative plan' and to come up with some radical ideas and
fool-proof tactics that will put the web at the very heart of our
institutions.

Andrew Aird, Director of Web Services at King's College, London will take
you on a safari from the swamps of apathy, through the plateau of
innocence, up the rocky path of persuasion to finally emerge in on the
sunlit peaks of virtuality, inclusiveness and sustainability.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Bristow - World Wide Web Coordinator
City University Business School
Frobisher Crescent, Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8HB
Tel +44 (0)20 7477 8300
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.business.city.ac.uk/ero/
------------------------------------------------------------------------