Blog posts on this year’s event #2

A few more blog posts for you. If you have written a post we’ve missed add it as a comment.

General

• Kevin Mears – My thoughts on IWMW2009
• Anthony Doherty – Last day at IWMW 2009
• Andrew Male – Three actions
• Liz Ayan –  Iwmw2009 Introduction And Keynote Speech Overview

Parallel Sessions

• Andy Powell – The management of website content in UK universities – report available
• Brian Kelly –  Are University Web Teams Too Large?

Remote Participants

• Nick Skelton – A domain driven design for the University Web

Technologies

• Marieke Guy – Splendid Streaming at IWMW
• Brian Kelly – An Archive Of IWMW 2009 Tweets

Blog posts on this year’s event #1

Here’s a round up of the blog posts that have been written so far on this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop. There’s probably a few more to come and we’ll put some more up next week. If you do write something please let us know.

General

• Steve Jordan – IWMW 2009 – Steve’s reflections
• Martin Poulter and team – IWMW reflections/ Hug a Developer
• Liz Azyan (Jadu) – Iwmw2009: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly…

Parallel Sessions

• Andy Ramsden – Reflections on QR Code workshop at the IWMW 2009
• Andy Powell – Care in the community
• Janet McKnight – Geolocating ducks in Essex
• Tony Hirst – IWMW Mashups Round the Edges: Scraping Tables and IWMW Mashups Round the Edges: YQL, Microformats and Structured Data
• Mike Richwalsky – IWMW Amazon Web Services Session
• Andrew Male – Using Scrum: Sprints not Marathons

Remote Participants

• Karine Joly – Get a taste of the Institutional Web Management Workshop held in the UK from your desk

Technologies

• Marieke Guy – Tweetastic at IWMW2009
• Brian Kelly – Evidence on Use of Twitter for Live Blogging and Event Amplification at IWMW 2009

Webinars of parallel sessions

This year IWMW have been working with Higher Ed Experts, who provide professional development and social networking online opportunities to higher education professionals working in Web, marketing, PR and admissions offices in America. Higher Ed Experts have links with the EduWeb conference, a similar conference to IWMW but held in over in the US. We have teamed up to offer a free special webinar series featuring 2 of this year’s parallel sessions.

• Where’s the University? Building an institutional geolocation service – Janet McKnight and Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University Computing Services
• Using Amazon Web Services – Mike Richwalsky, Allegheny College

The webinars are available from the Higher Ed Web site.

Workshop A2 (new): Using The Social Web To Maximise Access to Resources

Unfortunately Colin Hamilton won’t be able to attend IWMW 2009 and so won’t be able to give his session on “Using Web Analytics“. I will be replacing Colin.

However rather than looking at Web analytics tools such as Google Analaytics in  my workshop session on “Using The Social Web To Maximise Access to Resources” I will be exploring how Social Web services (such as blogs, wikis, Twitter and Facebook) can be used to maximise access to resources and services.

The session will provide some evidence of the benefits of this approach and will explore ways in which metrics can be obtained and used. The session will also provide an opportunity to discuss some of the barriers to use of such services, including concerns that such services may be walled gardens, may be intended for social and not professional purposes and the tensions between individual and organisational use of such services.

iLabtastic!

While at IWMW2009 try to make time to check out the iLab(Innovation lab) on the Colchester Campus.

This is:

“an inspirational facility designed for group work, which transports users from their everyday environment into an extraordinary space encouraging creative thinking and problem solving.“

Some of the resources include:

• Tutor’s computer with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word etc) & internet connection
• Data projection of Tutor’s computer/ video on to drop down screen, overhead projector
• Comfy chairs!
• Childrens games, lego, play doh, art materials
• CD player, DVD player
• Whiteboards – Floor to ceiling whiteboards throughout
• Digital camera, satellite TV/ radio, plasma screen displays
• Visualiser projector
• Slide projector / Flipchart

Three of the parallel sessions will run in the iLab:

• Are QR Codes simply a fad or do they add value to the mobile user? (Tuesday 28 July 15:30-17:00)
• Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Wednesday 29 July 13:30-15:00)
• The Mobile Web: keep up if you can! (Wednesday 29 July 15:30-17:00

So if you are booked on any of these you’ll get a chance to check the ILab out. If you aren’t attending any of these sessions contact the organising committee or the local organisers and they may be able to organise a tour for you.