We are pleased to announce that the DevCSI Developer Days – Dev8D2011 – are going to be held over Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 February 2011 in London. Dev8D+ will be held before Dev8D. Please visit the Dev8D Web site for more information about this event.
Archive for the ‘Outreach’ Category
DevCSI Developer Days: February 2011
Monday, November 29th, 2010Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011
Monday, November 29th, 2010Next year’s IWMW 2011 will be held at the University of Reading from Tuesday 26 – Wednesday 27 July 2011. An Ideascale site has been set up to collect ideas for the event.
Last Call for DevCSI Event on Workflow Tools
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010DevCSI (Developer Community Supporting Innovation), the project managed by UKOLN to help developers in Further and Higher Education has announced that just a few places remain for its event for software developers, users, project managers and clients who are interested in workflow and business process modelling tools. The event will take place in Bath on Friday 30 November 2010. Further details and a booking form for the few places remaining are obtainable.
UKOLN Presentations at Online Information Conference 2010
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010Two presentations will be given by UKOLN staff at Online Information Conference 2010 
to be held from 30 November to 2 December 2010 at Olympia, London. Brian Kelly will be talking on Moving from Personal to Organisational Use of the Social Web and Marieke Guy will give a presentation entitled Home, Work, Work, Home!? How Information Professionals Can Exploit Blurred Boundaries.
Institutional Web Services: Evidence for Their Value
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010Brian Kelly will facilitate a one-day workshop entitled Institutional Web Services: Evidence for Their Value to be held on Friday 12 November 2010 at the University of Strathclyde. The workshop is being organised in conjunction with the Scottish Web Folk regional group. Further details are available.
DevCSI Event on Modelling Workflows and Business Processes
Monday, November 8th, 2010DevCSI (Developer Community Supporting Innovation), the project managed by UKOLN to help developers in Higher Education is bringing together software developers, users, project managers and clients particularly in Education (though not exclusively) who are interested in learning more about workflow and business process modelling tools. The event will take place in Bath on 30 November 2010. Further details and a booking form are obtainable.
Exploring Agile Prototyping for Developers
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010DevCSI, the JISC-funded project which helps developers in HE to realise their full potential, has organised with the University of Manchester School of Computer Science a free one-day workshop which will explore various agile prototyping techniques. The event will take place on Tuesday 23 November 2010 at the School of Computer Science. Further details are available.
Sixty Minutes to Save Libraries
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Brian Kelly and Nicola McNee will facilitate a session entitled Sixty Minutes to Save Libraries: Gathering Evidence to Demonstrate Library Services’ Impact and Value at the MashSpa event which will be held in the Chapel Arts Centre, Bath on Friday 29 October 2010.
Impact: Proving We Make a Difference
Friday, October 22nd, 2010An article by Val Skelton published in Information Today describes how “Users, funders and decision makers are asking tough questions about our products and services and we must be ready to respond with credible usage statistics.” The article leads with a summary of a talk entitled Monitoring and Maximising Organisational Impact given by Brian Kelly at last week’s Internet Librarian International 2010, who argued that the sector “should wholeheartedly embrace this demand for transparency by being clear and open about usage and impact.”