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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel> <title>IWMW 2008: Parallel Workshop Sessions</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/</link><description>Details of the parallel workshops at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008</description><language>en</language><dc:date>2008-05-27</dc:date><!-- Note that in the following fields the following information is provided: The title is the title of the parallel session (iincluding the session code (A1-A8 or B1-B8).The description provides an abstract of the session.The date is the date the workshop will be held.--> <item><title>A1: Embracing Web 2.0 Technologies to Grease the Wheels of Team Cohesion</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/ramsden/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/ramsden/</guid><description>This session will review how a number of Web 2.0 technologies that are both internally and externally hosted and can be used to future proof the way that teams in institutions can work effectively together.The session was facilitated by Andy Ramsden and Marieke Guy, University of Bath.</description><dc:date>2008-07-22</dc:date></item> <item><title>A2: Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Support a Brand Focused Marketing Strategy</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/aspell/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/aspell/</guid><description>During this session there will be an exploration of the use of Web 2.0 technologies in brand based marketing. The session will use the results of the recent collaboration between the University of Southampton and Precedent Communications http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isoton to demonstrate how developing a consistent approach to the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies can be acheived by considering your institution's corporate objectives and audiences. Discussion Groups will consider how the Web 2.0 technologies used in brand based marketing can be applied to their institution.The session was facilitated by James Souttar, Precedent.</description><dc:date>2008-07-22</dc:date></item> <item><title>A3: Coping with Forms: Implementing a Web Form Management Application</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/jackson/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/jackson/</guid><description>Creating good forms is a tricky business encompassing a wide range of disciples (accessibility, usability, security, etc). What's more, the development of bespoke online forms, and their back-end reporting interfaces, can be a hugeresource drain for institutional Web teams. This session will tackle these problems by asking 'what do we need to know to make better forms, and how can we better manage form development processes'? As a case study, we will look at how the implementation of a form building and management application has aided the Web team at City University.The session was facilitated by Dan Jackson, City University. </description><dc:date>2008-07-22</dc:date></item> <item><title>A4: Stuff what We're doing at Edge Hill University</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/nolan/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/nolan/</guid><description>This session will go on a whistlestop tour of some of the new developments made for the March 2008 relaunch of Edge Hill's corporate Web site. See what a small, centralised Web team can deliver without a 1 million pound CMS! More buzzwords than you can shake a stick at and not afraid to get technical.The session was facilitated by Mike Nolan, Edge Hill University.</description><dc:date>2008-07-22</dc:date></item> <item><title>A5: The 'other' Accessibility Guidelines - the Importance of Authoring Tool Accessibility Evaluation in a Web 2.0 World</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/sloan/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/sloan/</guid><description>Web content is increasingly produced by authors without extensive web design skills - whether by staff using CMSs, VLEs and courseware or by students publishing their coursework online. The challenge of making sure this content is as accessible as possible becomes much more significant, and inevitably a burden on the individual or institution.The quality of the authoring tool in supporting accessible content creation becomes critical - however support for the W3C's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) by authoring tool vendors seems to be seen as a specific (and usually low priority) customer request rather than a fundamental quality of the tool.For institutions considering selecting a VLE, CMS or other tool that supports web content publication, how can they best express accessibility requirements so that the tool takes its share of responsibility for accessible output? And if existing tools fall short of ATAG conformance, how can the effect of this on the accessibility of content best be managed?The session was facilitated by David Sloan, University of Dundee.</description><dc:date>2008-07-22</dc:date></item> <item><title>A6: Mashups: More than Maps</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/ellis/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/ellis/</guid><description>Distributed computing - where data is consumed from external Web sites, sometimes 'mashed', or displayed in some other way on your own site, has become a powerful way of providing functionality, and requires little or no financial outlay or technical understanding.This workshop will look at some of the services available and examine some of the ways that they can be combined or otherwise used on your site and for prototype development.The session was facilitated by Mike Ellis, Eduserv.</description><dc:date>2008-07-22</dc:date></item> <item><title>A7: Introducing Socialearn</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/hirst/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/hirst/</guid><description>For the past year, the Open University has been exploring the potential of an open 'social learning platform' that will integrate the power of a social network and third party tools and applications within a pedagogically sound architectural framework. The project - code named "socialearn" - has been developing along several parallel strands: the user experience within a potential 'social learning' Web site; the development of a set of core platoform services with open API that is congruent with other standard and de facto standard web service APIs; and a business model that allows individuals and instituions alike to use the platform to futher their own business goals, whilst securing a sustainable financial basis for the platform itself.In this workshop, we will review the progress of the socialearn project, and demonstrate the features of the platform that have been built to date. As the socialearn platform is intended to be an open platform, we will also run through a series of exercises exploring ways in which the socialearn aproach may be used to support institutional services in both the formal and informal educational sectors.The session was facilitated by Tony Hirst, Open University. </description><dc:date>2008-07-22</dc:date></item> <item><title>A8: Mind Mapping for Effective Content Management</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/evans/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/evans/</guid><description>In 2007 the University of St Andrews Web Team (of two) was faced with the daunting task of managing the migration of 4,000+ Web pages from 35 individual Web sites into one new Web site within a content management system. Having explored various methods we settled on using mind maps to successfully the complete the task within 4 months.In this workshop we will begin with an overview of mind mapping before sharing what we did and looking at how you can use this tool to efficiently organise and manage your own content.The session was facilitated by Stephen Evans and Gareth Saunders, St Andrews. </description><dc:date>2008-07-22</dc:date></item> <item><title>B1: Approaches To Web Resource Preservation</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/guy/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/guy/</guid><description>In a follow up to James Currall's plenary talk on "The Tangled Web is but a Fleeting Dream ...but then again..." this session will discuss the challenges of Web preservation (what should we actually preserve?; what about IPR? and how do we address the technical challenges?). The session will review some of the approachsto the preservation of static content which were addressed at the first of the JISC PoWR workshops which was organised by the JISC-funded Preservation of Web Resources (PoWR) project.The workshop will go on to explore some of the adaditional challenges being posed by Web 2.0.The session was facilitated by Marieke Guy and Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath. </description><dc:date>2008-07-23</dc:date></item> <item><title>B2: Web CMS and University Web Teams Part II - the Never Ending Story?</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/gibbons/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/gibbons/</guid><description>The University of Bradford Web CMS project began in October 2005 andby the time IWMW 2008 happens we will have purchased our Web CMS and have a new University Web Team in place (just!). "Crumbs - that's taken a long time," you may say!Well, yes - but we know that by the end of the project we will have a Web CMS that suits our organisational needs and is welcomed and accepted by the users, as well as a new resource to assist the University of Bradford in taking its Web presence forward - the University Web Team.So how did we do it? Following on from last year's IWMW 2007 session (People, Processes and Projects - How the Culture of an Organisation can Impact on Technical System Implementation) we will give some insight into why we think our project has continued to be successful - detailing the hurdles we met along the way and how we overcame them - and imparting the knowledge that we have learnt during the project which can help you take your organisation with you and enable you to implement a huge change management project successfully. Hint - it's all about the people!The session was facilitated by Claire Gibbons and Russell Allen, University of Bradford.</description><dc:date>2008-07-23</dc:date></item> <item><title>B3: The Real Information Environment</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/poulter/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/poulter/</guid><description>The workshop is an opportunity to consider the implications for university-based Web sites of the use of external, embeddable commercial services. As embeddable services and communities increasingly dominate, Web sites are evolving into Web presences, with implications for marketing, functionality and evaluation. We will look at some examples from Higher Education Academy Subject Centres' use of services such as YouTube, Google Books and PBwiki, consider some risks and benefits and invite participants to share their own attitudes towards these services, whether pro or con.The session was facilitated by Dr Martin L Poulter, University of Bristol and Kwansuree Jiamton, King's College London.</description><dc:date>2008-07-23</dc:date></item> <item><title>B4: Hands Up if You Haven't done Yours Yet...</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/nicholson/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/nicholson/</guid><description>One year on and we are still scratching our heads, trying to work out just what we need a Social Networking Policy to cover, why we need it, and exactly who it needs to protect.Social Networking presents lots of opportunities in the areas of teaching and learning, student recruitment, alumni relations and collaboration, as well as exposing the University to a variety of risks and new challenges.This session will explore the risks and opportunities we are faced with, and will try to establish some of the issues we need to safeguard against. It may even provide some answers for institutions who are still thinking about creating a policy, just starting the process, or those burying their heads in the sand...a bit like some senior management!The session was facilitated by Debbie Nicholson and Keith Brooke University of Essex.</description><dc:date>2008-07-23</dc:date></item> <item><title>B5: Tactics to Strategy, and Back Again</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/emmott/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/emmott/</guid><description>Tactics tend to dominate the daily routine, limiting the time and space available to consider strategies. This workshop aims to explore the distinction between strategy and tactics to help web professionals identify the ends and manage the means by which they are achieved.The session was facilitated by Stephen Emmott, LSE.</description><dc:date>2008-07-23</dc:date></item> <item><title>B6: Battling Bureaucracy</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/boag/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/boag/</guid><description>Why is it that so many web projects within public institutions are delivered late and fail to stay within budget? In this session we discuss the challenges faced by institutional Web site managers and look at specific techniques to address issues such as design by committee, scope creep and internal politics.The session was facilitated by Paul Boag. </description><dc:date>2008-07-23</dc:date></item> <item><title>B7: What's the Point of Having Developers in a Web 2.0 World?</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/wilson/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/wilson/</guid><description>With the ever-increasing quality of third-party tools lowering the barriers for enthusiasts to provide Web-based services for their teams and departments, what's the point in having an insitutional Web development team? Can they provide anything that someone with the time, motivation and a decent tool can't? Should Web Services just be innovating on top of these services (and if so, how?), or should they be disbanded in favour of outsourcing?A short introductory presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion with sweets on offer to keep our energy up!The session was facilitated by Phil Wilson and Tom Natt, University of Bath.</description><dc:date>2008-07-23</dc:date></item> <item><title>B8: Podcasting and iTunes U: Institutional Approaches to Scaleable Service</title><link>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/speller/</link><guid>http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/sessions/speller/</guid><description>The Open University and UCL have been pursuing projects to deliver on-demand audio and video podcasting recording and distribution services primarily via Apple's iTunes U service. In this talk, Nicholas and Jeremy will discuss how the different approaches of two very different institutions impacted on the nature of the two projects, how challenges were addressed and how solutions were developed.The session was facilitated by Jeremy Speller, UCL and Nicholas Watson. </description><dc:date>2008-07-23</dc:date></item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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