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Dear All, I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting bookings for the eleventh Institutional Web Management Workshop which will be held at the University of York from Monday 16th - Wednesday 18th July 2007. This year's theme is 'Next Steps for the Web Management Community' and there are a number of plenary talks which will explore the concept of community. Steven Warburton, King's College London, asks 'What does 'Community of Practice' mean for Institutional Web Managers?' while Alison Wildish, Edge Hill University, suggests we 'Let the Students do the Talking' by encouraging the use of social networking tools. Paul Boag, Headscape discusses 'Social Participation in Student Recruitment' and Peter Reader, University of Bath gives the marketing take in his talk 'Marketing Man takes off his Tie: Customers, Communities and Communication'. There are are also a number of more technical talks including advice on 'Building Highly Scalable Web Applications' from Jeff Barr, Amazon Web Services, consideration of whether 'Your Web site can be Your API?' by Drew McClellan, allinthehead.com, and a look at 'The Promise of Information Architecture' from Keith Doyle, Salford University. Workshop participants will also be able to attend 2 from a total of 18 parallel sessions which cover a wide range of topics including various aspects of engaging with the user community; usability, accessibility, cultural issues; use of technologies such as XCRI, single sign on, portable devices; Web 2.0 issues such as using YouTube, 'The Eternal Beta - Can it Work in an Institution?' and geolinking institutional content and much more. You will be asked to select your parallel workshop sessions when you register so may want to read up on the sessions available in advance: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/sessions/ We will, as usual, be providing a social programme which includes a workshop dinner and a reception at the National Rail Museum. Further details of all are available at the workshop Web site at <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/>. The booking form is available at: <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/bookings/>. We hope to see you in York in July. Marieke ******************* Marieke Guy IWMW Chair UKOLN, University of Bath, BA2 7AY Web site: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/ Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 01225 385105