UKOLN's annual Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2010) takes place
at the University of Sheffield next week, from Monday 12 July - Wednesday 14
July - see http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/.
Although the event is aimed primarily at those working in the higher
education sector I think that may of the topics which will be discussed will
be of interest more widely. And as IWMW 2010 is, once again, an amplified
event, with a live video stream of the plenary talks and the #iwmw10 Twitter
hashtag providing an opportunities for discussions about the talks and the
many other sessions at the event (which, unfortunately, aren't being
streamed.
The programme for the event is available at
http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/programme/
The talks on Monday afternoon which may be of interest are:
"The Web in Turbulent Times" (a senior manager's perspective on strategies
for survival); Are web managers still needed when everyone is a web
'expert'? (a concern which may be worrying those working in institutional;
Web teams);
On Tuesday morning Mike Ellis will chair a session on the theme of The Web
In Interesting Times with talks on "HTML5 (and friends)" and "Mobile Web and
Campus Assistant" (both of interest to many developers I would think). The
remainder of the day has a number of talks on the theme of "The Web in
Difficult Times"
I have published a blog post explaining the benefits to be gained from the
amplification of events - see
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/amplified-events-plans-for-iwmw10
/
It does seem to me that providing access to such talks at an event for the
HE sector to members of the museums sector can provide benefits which the
government is expecting (requiring?) - we are maximising the benefits of
knowledge sharing and capacity building within the HE sector by sharing our
expertise and knowledge and gaining the benefits of the knowledge and
expertise available I the museums sector by these approaches.
As described in a post on the IWMW 2010 at
http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/2010/07/remote-audience-and-live-video-str
eam/
we aim to treat the remote audience as "first-class citizens" and will seek
to ensure that the video, the audio, the slides and the discussions are as
accessible as possible to those who are participating remotely.
We will also be seeking to identify the numbers of remote participants and
their locations as such evidence will be need in order to facilitate the
planning for the provision of amplified events in the future. A simple way
of geo-locating your presence would be to geo-locate your #iwmw10 tweet.
We will also be inviting feedback from remote participants in order to find
answer to the questions (a) are there tangible benefits in providing such
amplified events and (b) if so, what are the best practices which should be
used in order to maximise the benefits to such remote audiences.
The IMW 2010 blog
http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/
will be used to encourage such discussions. A BuddyPress group has been set
up at
http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2010/groups/remote-participation/home/
aimed at supporting remote participants.
I'm looking for to *not* seeing you in Sheffield next week, but chatting
with you on the blog and Twitter :-)
Thanks
Brian
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Brian Kelly
UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, UK, BA2 7AY
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Phone: +44 1225 383943
Web site: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/briankelly/
Twitter (automated posts): http://twitter.com/ukwebfocus/
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