Hi Brian,
One obvious candidate from Edinburgh would be Jeff Haywood, head of Information Services, which includes the university Library, Computing Services, EDINA and the Data Library.
He might very well have something to say about Embedding Innovation!
Paul
On 19 Jan 2012, at 17:02, Brian Kelly wrote:
> As you will probably know the IWMW 2012 event will be held at the University of Edinburgh on 18-20 June. The call for proposals is currently open [1]. But in addition we'll be looking for good plenary speakers, particularly to open and close the event. In previous years we have had great talks from two well-known Scottish speakers, Derek Law and Ewan McIntosh. I'd welcome suggestions for similar high profile speakers who could give relevant talks at the event.
>
> Note that in the past we've talked about the need to have senior managers who know about the Web speaking at the event. Last year I came across the blog at
> http://universitydiary.wordpress.com <http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/>/
> which is provided by Ferdinand von Prondzynski who is now VC at RGU.
>
> He has written some interesting posts: e.g.
> Institutional tweets: http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/institutional-tweets/
> Why not just study for free? - http://universitydiary.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/why-not-just-study-for-free/
>
> and is featured in Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Prondzynski
>
> Might he be worth approaching? If necessary, feel free to contact me directly
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
> 1 IWMW 2012 Call , http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2012/call/
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