Archive for the ‘IWMW’ Category

IWMW 2013: Open for Bookings

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Bookings are now open for the IWMW 2013 event.  This is the 17th in the series of Institutional Web Management Workshops. This year’s event will be held at the University of Bath over 26-28 June.

A blog post provides a summary of the plenary talks to be given at the event on a day-by-day basis, while a UKOLN news feature supplies an overview of the IWMW 2013 speakers.

Note that, in addition to the 13 plenary talks, there are 9 parallel sessions on Day One and 8 on Day Two, each planned for 90 minutes. On offer is a variety of group discussions, exercises and practical sessions. Participants will need to consult the programme to select their preferred parallel session for each day before beginning their booking.

 

Resources from IWMW 2012

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

The Innovation Support Centre has announced the availability of slides, recordings and video from UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2012. Details are available from an ISC blog post.

IWMW 2012 Open for Bookings

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Bookings are now open for UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2012. Information about speakers and sessions as well as how to book is now available on the UKOLN Web site.

Call for Proposals: IWMW 2012

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

UKOLN has announced a Call for Proposals for this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2012), to be held in Edinburgh from 18 to 20 June 2012.  This annual event, designed for everyone managing and developing institutional Web services, will address a broad range of topics related to this year’s theme of ‘Embedding Innovation’. More information about this event and how to submit proposals for plenary talks and parallel workshop sessions is available from the UKOLN Web site.

Call for Submissions to IWMW 2012

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

UKOLN’s Institutional Web Management Workshop 2012 event will be held at the University of Edinburgh over 18-20 June 2012. IWMW, designed for practitioners involved in the provision of institutional Web services, has been running for 15 years and is the main event for those with responsibilities for managing, maintaining and developing a range of online services based on Web technologies.

The call for submissions, including proposals for plenary talks and workshop sessions, together with other ideas (panel sessions, debates, etc.) is now available.

A blog post which provides more background information on the Call is available from the UK Web Focus blog.

IWMW 2011: Systems Approach

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Paul Walk, Deputy Director, UKOLN, and Thom Bunting, Web Manager (eFramework and JISC IE Technical Foundations), UKOLN, will both be contributing to sessions on 27 July 2011 at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011 (IWMW 2011). Thom in a computer-lab-based session entitled Doing Drupal: quick start deployments via distributions will focus on a distribution providing automated content and data aggregation, tagging, mapping, and trend visualisation. Paul,  conscious of the the lack of career options for successful Web developers in many HE institutions will explore the possible development of a new role in the sector – The Strategic Developer – a developer who has both technical and domain experience, and who can contribute to strategic planning and decision making.

The Economical Way to Amplify Your Event

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Marieke Guy and Brian Kelly will be facilitating a parallel session at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop entitled The Economical Way to Amplify Your Event.

Web teams are increasingly involved in supporting events by delivering resources, streaming content and promoting outputs. This session will consider what you need to do to amplify an event successfully, the free and not-so-free tools that are out there for you to use, and what equipment it would be useful to have. It will also take a look at  event amplification at IWMW2011 and consider what has worked and what hasn’t over the past few years.

DevCSI Workshop on Open Data and the Institutional Web

Monday, July 11th, 2011

The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011 and DevCSI are collaborating on a free event for developers looking at hacking content, systems and services for institutional/open data. The workshop, to be held at the University of Reading, will begin on Monday 25 July and end at lunch-time on Tuesday 26 July. Accommodation will be provided but places are limited. Further details on the workshop are available from the IWMW 2011 blog.

Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011 Blog Now Live

Monday, June 27th, 2011

The blog serving IWMW 2011 has now gone live and organisers Marieke Guy and Brian Kelly are already inviting posts. Information on how to contact them and the full background to the development and use of the IWMW blog is available in a News feature on the UKOLN Web site.

IWMW 2011: Call for Participation

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

The call for speakers and workshop facilitators for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011 (IWMW 2011) remains open until Friday 4 February 2011. The workshop will be held at the University of Reading from Tuesday 26 to Wednesday 27 July 2011. Further ideas and information are available from the IWMW Web site.