Shirley Keane retired from UKOLN on 31 January, after 10 years as Web Editor.
During her time at UKOLN, Shirley oversaw a major redevelopment of the Web site and was responsible for maintaining content. The support and guidance that she provided for staff, always in a professional and friendly manner, was very much appreciated and will be missed.
We wish her well as she moves on with other interests.
Brian Kelly and Marieke Guy will be facilitating a workshop session on “Amplified Events, Seminars, Conferences, …: What? Why? How?” which will be held at the JISC Conference at the BT Convention Centre in Liverpool on 15 March 2011.
The abstract for the session is given below:
All institutions are involved in providing events, ranging from international conferences through to smaller and more informal seminars and workshops. But in today’s economic environment the costs of participating in such events may lead to concerns over their sustainability. ‘Amplified events’ provide an approach which enhances the advantages provided by traditional face-to-face events by exploiting networked technologies to widen participation to remote participants and ‘time-shifting’ events.
This session will review a variety of approaches which have been taken at a number of national, international and regional events. The session will explore the reasons for such approaches, address possible concerns and outline various business models, policies and emerging technologies which can be used to maximise the benefits of amplified events.
The online booking form is available on the JISC Web site.
Professor Melius Weideman, Head of Department in the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa, will give a UKOLN seminar entitled Website Design – Down with Technicalities, Up with the User and Crawler at the University of Bath from 2-4 pm on Monday 21 February 2011.
A limited number of places are available for this seminar. If you would like to attend please complete the online booking form which also provides an abstract and additional information.
The UK Digital Curation Centre is running a series of inter-linked regional workshops as part of the DCC Roadshow at the beginning of March 2011. Running over the three days of the Roadshow, free workshops will provide advice and guidance tailored to a range of staff, including PVCs Research, University Librarians, Directors of IT/Computing Services, Repository Managers, Research Support Services and practising researchers on the topic of institutional research data management planning and training. Further details are available from the UKOLN Web Site.
Ann Chapman of UKOLN will be running a one-day workshop in Leicester on 22 February 2011 entitled The Social Web: Opportunities in Difficult Times. Run in partnership with the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, this workshop will consider how Social Web services can help libraries, museums and archives (especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise) deliver services in new ways and reach new audiences. Attendance is free. Registration ends 14 February 2011. Further information and registration are obtainable from the UKOLN Web site.
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.
UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter about UKOLN activities, provides a view of staff work during the month of December 2010.