Archive for the ‘Web Focus’ Category

Live Video Stream of “What Can We Learn from Amplified Events?”

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Brian Kelly will be giving a talk entitled What Can We Learn from Amplified Events? on Friday 3 September at the University of Girona. A live video stream of the talk will be available starting at 11.30 BST. Discussions about the talk will take place on Twitter using the #udgamp10 event hashtag.

Embedding and Sustaining University 2.0

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Brian Kelly will give an invited keynote plenary talk entitled Embedding and Sustaining University 2.0 at the University 2.0 Conference. It will be held at Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP), Santander, Spain over 6-8 September 2010.

What Can We Learn from Amplified Events?

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Brian Kelly has been invited to give a seminar entitled What Can We Learn from Amplified Events? at the University of Gironaexternal link. The seminar will be held on Friday 3 September 2010 in the Casademont Building, Science and Technology Park, Girona, Catalonia, Spain. A blog post about the seminar is available.

Web 2.0 and Libraries: Impacts, Technologies and Trends

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Brian Kelly has contributed a chapter on A Deployment Strategy for Maximising the Impact of Instituional Use of Web 2.0 in a book entitled Web 2.0 and Libraries: Impacts, Technologies and Trendsexternal link edited by Dave Parkes and Geoff Walton and published by Chandos Publishing.

Museums in the Digital Age Making History on BBC Radio 4

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Brian Kelly took part in a discussion on Museums in the Digital Age which will be broadcast on the Making Historyexternal link programme on BBC Radio 4external link on 6 July 2010 at 15:00. Note the Making History series is also available as a podcast.

Off the digi-scale

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Brian Kelly is featured in an interview published in the April issue of Information World Reviewexternal link.

Web 2.0 and the Social Web

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Only a few places remain for the one-day workshop entitled An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web to be held in Nottingham on Wednesday 17 March 2010. This workshop is designed for members of the museums, libraries and archives communities. It will seek to demystify the terminology and the technologies as well as address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users. The workshop will be facilitated by Marieke Guy of UKOLN. Details of the Nottingham event and how to book the last few places are available.

Museums in a Digital Age

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Brian Kelly has contributed to a book entitled Museums in a Digital Ageexternal link. This work, edited by Ross Parry and published by Routledge in December 2009, provides advice on best practice related to use of digital media in the cultural heritage sector. Together with Lawrie Phipps and Caro Howell, Brian contributed on the topic Implementing a holistic approach to e-learning accessibility which appears in Part 3: Access: ability, usability and connectivity.

Paper on Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Shortly before Christmas 2009 Brian Kelly presented a paper Empowering Users and their Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web at the CULTURAL HERITAGE on line external link Conference which was held in Florence. This paper is now available from the UKOLN Web site.

Empowering Users and Institutions

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Brian Kelly will present a paper entitled Empowering Users and Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Social Web at the Cultural Heritage Online 2009external link Conference which will be held in Florence over 15 – 16 December 2009.