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Planning For IWMW 2008

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Planning For IWMW 2008

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  1. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/meetings/scottish-web-folk-2007-10/http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/meetings/scottish-web-folk-2007-10/ Planning For IWMW 2008 Acceptable Use Policy Recording/broadcasting of this talk, taking photographs, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, blogs, SMS, video chat, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK Email B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat)

  2. IWMW Series (1) • IWMW annual event: • Launched in 1997 (11 so far) • Key event for institutional Web managers • Skills update (best practices, new technologies, …) In addition: • Social dimension • Yaddy, yaddy, yah

  3. IWMW Series (2) • Themes for the events: • Next Steps for the Web Management Community • Quality Matters (in retrospect it should have been Web 2.0) • Whose Web Is It Anyway? • Transforming The Organisation • Supporting Our Users • The Pervasive Web • Organising Chaos • The Joined-Up Web • The Next Steps 2007 The themes help to provide a focus, used in the call for sessions 1999

  4. IWMW 2007 Structure

  5. About The Event • Plenary Talks • ~6-9 providing case studies/insight into something new. Give a shared experience that all can talk about. Good to start with a stimulating speaker • Workshops • Interactive parallel sessions. Chose 2 from ~18 • Discussion Groups • Complaints – but Duncan’s worked (see blog) • Panel Session / Debates / … • Something different. Can be patchy • Innovation Competition • New to 2007. Positive feedback • Social Event(s) • Meal+ (day 1) and something memorable (day 2)

  6. About The Technologies • WiFi network at events: • Now being exploited, with positive feedback • Certain technologies now embedded: • Tagging (iwmw2007) used with Flickr, blogs, .. • Wikis used for note-taking cf. Debbie Nicholson’s blog post • Chat facilities – but not so much this year • Over experiments seem to be successful: • Streaming video • Subsequent publishing on Google Video We now have an ‘Amplified Event’, with richer learning during event & greater exposure to resources at event and afterwards. Challenges: sustaining; business models; flexibility; …

  7. Challenges & Opportunities • IWMW Risk Assessment • What if: • BK/MG leave UKOLN (or have more babies, …)? • Core funders priorities change • … • There is: • A need to ensure IWMW event is sustainable if circumstances change • An opportunity for those who wish to engage more actively with the event: • Career development  Promotion possibilities? • Gathering ammunition for in-house use • Trying out ideas in safe environment • …

  8. IWMW 2008: An Opportunity • IWMW 2008 can provide opportunity to: • Implement a more community-based approach to IWMW planning • Demonstrate the strengths of the Scottish Web Folk regional community • Develop cross-institutional prototypes cf. geo-location ideas suggested at Scottish Web Folk meeting in Aug. 2006 • Work in collaboration with peer-organisations and share experiences • Exploit further various social networking tools • Provide a fun and memorable IWMW 2008 

  9. But Let’s Be Realistic • Constraints • Available effort • Commitment • Logistics • Finances • … • Additional Factors • Limited accommodation • Distance • Expected numbers • Date (in summer holidays) We’re had ~190 participants in recent years. Will the distance and date put people off? Will we have to plan for smaller numbers? Or can be make event so attractive and target new audiences, that the event could be larger than before?

  10. D Group Exercise: Write down your ideas. Feel free to think imaginatively and outside the box Brainstorming Structure Name / theme Audiences Exhibition User engagement Ideas Sponsorship “You must be joking!” Innovation Competition Social Events Web site preservation Links with DL community

  11. My Thoughts • A Green Event • Being green, whilst still being effective • ‘Unconference’ Sessions? • Users set the agenda (but isn’t this just the discussion groups?) • Better Links With R&D • Embedding JISC-funded projects • Preservation of Web sites • The Accessibility Trial • University of MacPoppleton taken to court for an inaccessible VLE. You, the jury, decide. • The Amplified Conference • Build on previous work • Working With FE • HE/FE differences existed previously, but we’ve all now got similar interests in Web 2.0

  12. Questions • Any questions? "Do not ask what the community can do for you, ask what you can do for the community"

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