iwmw 2012: welcome
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The welcome slides given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at UKOLN's IWMW 2012 event held at the University of Edinburgh on 18-20 June 2012. See http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2012/talks/welcome/TRANSCRIPT
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Brian KellyUKOLNUniversity of BathBath, UK
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Welcome to the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2012“Embedding Innovation”
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This year’s theme ….
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This year’s theme ….Embedding Innovation
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Context The known knowns:
• £9,000 fees
• Growth in use of Cloud services, mobile access, social media, open data, …
The known unknowns:
• Effect of £9,000 fees: levels of funding; user expectations; …
• Sustainability of services:in the Cloud and in-house
The unknown unknowns:
• Google / Facebook / … go out-of-business?
• Poppleton University forced to close5
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IWMW History
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1997 1998 1999
Early Years
Launch at KCL
IWMW brand
“Who will rid me of this troublesome beast?” Professor John Slater, PVC Learning & Teaching at University of Kent
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IWMW History
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2000 2001 2002
Growth of the community
“A Controversial Proposal”
Derek Law, University Librarian & Director of Information Strategy at University of Strathclyde on:
“Avoiding turf wars, hiding real ownership costs, not scaring the management and letting everyone else think it was their idea”
175 participants18-20 June, finished day before England vs Brazil
First live video-streaming of plenary talks
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IWMW History
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The Web Management Years
CMS: our shared challengesThere Is No Silver BulletThe CMS PanelWiFi / London Bombing
Professor Melville, VC, University of Kent on “exciting opportunities”
Transforming the Organisation: talks on Web strategies, e-business, intranets, ….
2003 2004 2005
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IWMW History
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2006 2007 2008
The Web 2.0 Years
Let the Students do the Talking...Can Your Web Site Be Your API?
Developing a Web 2.0 StrategyWhat Does Openness Mean to the Web Manager?
Science in the YouTube AgeUnleashing the Tribe150+ people watched live video stream
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IWMW History
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2009 2010 2011
The Economic Cloud
Launch of iwmw.ukoln.ac.ukHeadlights on Dark Roads
“Responding to Change”:• Marketing and Other Dirty Words• Using activity data to support your users• Embedding Web 2.0
“The Web In Turbulent Times”:• ‘So what do you do exactly?’ In challenging
times justifying the roles of the web teams• No money? No matter - Improve your website
with next to no cash
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‘Times They Are A-Changing’
Perfect storm hits higher education:• Credit crunch• New government• Student fees• Continued technological development
Need to be able to respond to changing environment
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Who Provides IWMW?
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IWMW 1997-2011:• Provided by
UKOLN• Chaired by
Brian Kelly (all) and Marieke Guy (2006-11)
IWMW 2012:• Provided by
Innovation Support Centre (ISC) at UKOLN
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JISC ISC at UKOLN
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UKOLN ISC is “a JISC-funded initiative which supports innovation in the Higher and Further Education sectors of the UK”
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IRG at UKOLN
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IRG at UKOLN:
“delivers UKOLN’s contribution to the Digital Curation Centre and an ever evolving portfolio of research projects”
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Challenges of Innovation
Event amplification:
Exploiting:• WiFi networks • Mobile devices• Widely-used tools (e.g.
Twitter)
To facilitate:• Discussions• Exchange of ideas for
participants
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Janet McKnight (@J4) keeping up-to-date at #IWMW11 while on maternity leave16
Event amplification:
Exploiting WiFi networks; video-streaming; etc.
To:• Amplify discussions • Share ideas with a
wider community of remote participants
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Challenges of Innovation
Nobody will turn up at future events
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What’s the business model? What are implications for the future?
This will be bad for everyone
Perhaps we should block WiFi?
We should charge the remote audience!
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But:• We don’t exist for the purpose
of running events• Our aim is “To keep web
managers up-to-date with developments and best practices in order that institutions can exploit the Web to its full potential”
So: • We explore innovative
approaches & share experiences
• Report launched today18
Challenges of Innovationhttp://isc.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/
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Challenges of InnovationWhat is the purpose of:
• Institutional Web Teams?• The institutional Web?
Need to:• Revisit such questions• Challenge established assumptions• Be willing to unlearn
Are you:• Part of a Strategic Web Team which supports
(and informs) institutional strategies?
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Feel free to tweet:• What have you unlearnt over the years?• What will you still have to unlearn?
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Community as Open DevelopmentStrong culture of collaboration and sharing
Initially using JISCMail (and F2F events)
Now use of social media:• Blogs• Twitter• Lanyrd• Google Apps
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And always-connected staff:• 86% of survey use mobiles
in bed for work purposes!(non-random survey!)
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IWMW As a Community
Lanyrd
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IWMW as a Community
Lanyrd
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Discussion About Cookies
Bottlenose
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Much of the recent discussion about the ICO’s ‘cookie law’ took place on Twitter.
Bottlenose.com can be used to explore the discussions.
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Discussion About Cookies
Bottlenose
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Discussion About Cookies
Bottlenose
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Various tools can be used to provide ‘personalised newspapers’ based on links tweeted, RSS feeds, …
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Google+
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Scope for periodic Google Hangouts?
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LinkedIn groups:• UK HE Web
Professions• Web 2.0 for
Higher Education
• …
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Over to You!
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Thanks to Our Sponsors
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Let IWMW 2012 Begin!
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