IWMW 2014: Welcome talk for the IWMW 2014 event given by Brian Kelly

1. Welcome to IWMW 2014
Brian Kelly
Innovation Advocate
Cetis
University of Bolton
Bolton, UK
Contact Details
Email: ukwebfocus@gmail.com
Twitter: @briankelly
Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
Cetis Web site: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
Further information available at http://iwmw.org/iwmw2014/
Northumbria University, 16-18 July 2014
IWMW 2014: Rebooting the Web
The 18th Institutional Web Management Workshop
Event hashtag: #iwmw14 Session hashtag: #P0

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About Me
Brian Kelly:
• Innovation Advocate at Cetis, University of
Bolton since Oct 2013
• Was UK Web Focus at UKOLN, University
of Bath, Oct 1996-Jul 2013
My work:
• Identifying innovative technologies and practices
• Supporting and promoting appropriate innovative
practices across UK HE/FE sector
• Working with sector in sharing and promoting best
practices in use of networked technologies
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About You
How many:
• Are new to IWMW events?
• Have attended:
 1-3 IWMW events?
 ~4-9 IWMW events?
 >10 IWMW events
• Work in:
 HE  FE  Other
• Are:
 Part on an institutional Web management team
 Work elsewhere in a HE/FE institution
• Are:
 Developers  Designers  Content specialists
 Managers  Others (what?)
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About IWMW
IWMW:
• Institutional Web Management Workshop
• Can also be pronounced whim-a-way!
• Established in 1997
• Organised by UKOLN annually as part of UKOLN’s
Jisc-funded activities
• Supported Jisc’s innovation (futures) activities
IWMW 2013:
• 17th in series
• Final event organised by UKOLN following cessation
of Jisc funding for UKOLN
• Feedback showed participants felt there was still a
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IWMW 2.014
IWMW 2.014
• Theme: “rebooting the Web”
• Focus on:
 Learning from institutional practices and sharing
experiences
 Learning from outside the HE/FE sector
 Informed future-gazing
• Provided by:
 Brian Kelly
 Cetis, my host institution
 Netskills
• Continues to help foster a community of practice
• But have we got it right? Will there be a need for
IWMW 2015?
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The Programme Day 1
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Time Title Speaker
Opening session: Perspectives from Outside
14.00 Introduction Brian Kelly
14.30 Why you don’t need a social media plan
and how to create one anyway
Tracy Playle
15.15 Tea
15.45 Digital Adaptation: Time to Untie Your
Hands
Paul Boag
16.30 Hyper-connectEd: Filling the vacuum by
switching from blow to suck
Martin
Hawksey
17.15 Announcements
Social event
17.20 Check in and free time (New Bridge pub?)
19.30 Dinner here

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The Programme Day 2
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Morning session: Institutional Case Studies (1)
09.00 Building cost-effective, flexible and scalable education
resources using Google Cloud Platform
Sharif Salah
09.45 Using the start-up playbook to reboot a big university
website
Ross Ferguson
10.30 Tea
11.00 Marketing is dead, long live UX Neil Allison
11.45 Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions (7 rooms) Sign up
12.30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Looking To The Future
14.00 “You are ALL so weird!” University sector analysis & trends Ranjit Sidhu
14.45 What Does The Data Tell Us About UK University Web
Sites?
Chris Gutteridge
& Andrew Milsted
15.30 Tea
16.00 Parallel Sessions
Social event
19.00 Reception followed by meals / drinks (DIY)

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The Programme (3) Day 3
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Time Title Speaker
Session: Institutional Case Studies (II)
Take bags to luggage area
09.30 Rebooting MyEd - Making the Portal
Relevant Again
Martin Morrey
10.15 Allocating Work: Providing Tools for
Academics
Hiten
Vaghmaria
11.00 Tea
Session: What Does the Future Hold?
11.30 “What is our vision for the institutional
web and can we implement that vision?”
All!
12.15 Conclusions
12.30 Close

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A Rapidly-Changing Future
See http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/towards-a-new-look-
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A Rapidly-Changing Future
We now need to bring together these customer services to make them
more manageable for us and, more importantly, more coherent and simpler
for our customers, so we are changing the current host grant
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IWMW 15
Do we want
an IWMW
2015?
What
changes
should we
make?
• Weekend
sessions?
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IWMW 15
• Do we want an
IWMW 2015?
• What changes
should we
make?
• Weekend
sessions?
• Wider range
of sessions?
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IWMW 2015
Do we want an
IWMW 2015?
What changes
should we make?
• Weekend
sessions?
• Wider range
of sessions
• Increased
sponsorship
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IWMW 2015
Do we want an IWMW
2015?
What changes should
we make?
• Weekend
sessions?
• Wider range of
sessions
• Increased
sponsorship
• Increased fees
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Below conference norm
ALT-C 2014: £579/£697
UCISA 2014: £475/£650
SCONUL 2014: £695
IWMW 2014: £350

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Who Makes IWMW 2014 Possible?
Main sponsors:
• Terminal4 • SiD
Exhibitors and additional sponsors
• Squiz • APS • Siteimprove
The speakers:
• 11 plenary speakers plus panellists
The workshop facilitators:
• ~10 facilitators
The organising team:
• Netskills: Steve Boneham, Philip Swinhoe, Hanna, …
• Natasha Bishop • Brian Kelly
The organising institutions:
• Netskills, Cetis and UK Web Focus
The participants:
• Everybody here!
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Campus Map
See https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/mapJune09.pdf
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Accommodation
New Bridge
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City map
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Cumberland
Arms

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Questions?
Any questions, comments, …?
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The Programme Day 1
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Time Title Speaker
Opening session: Perspectives from Outside
14.00 Introduction [#P0] Brian Kelly
14.30 Why you don’t need a social media plan
and how to create one anyway [#P1]
Tracy Playle
15.15 Tea
15.45 Digital Adaptation: Time to Untie Your Hands
[#P2]
Paul Boag
16.30 Hyper-connectEd: Filling the vacuum by
switching from blow to suck [#P3]
Martin
Hawksey
17.15 Announcements
Social event
17.20 Check in and Free time
19.00 Dinner at Halls of Residence