Planning For IWMW 2008

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Planning For IWMW 2008

Brian KellyUKOLNUniversity of BathBath, [email protected]

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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


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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

1999

The themes help to provide a focus, used in the call for sessions

The themes help to provide a focus, used in the call for sessions


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IWMW 2007 StructureDay 1 Day 2 Day 3

Plenary 3

Plenary 4 Panel Session

Registration Break Break

Optional session Plenary 5 Discussion Group 2

Plenary 6 Conclusions

Lunch Lunch

Plenary 1 Plenary 7

Plenary 2 Plenary 8

Break Break

Discussion Group 1 Plenary 9

Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions

Conference meal Event / do own thing


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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)


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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; …

We now have an ‘Amplified Event’, with richer learning during event & greater exposure to resources at event and afterwards.Challenges: sustaining; business models; flexibility; …


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Challenges & Opportunities

IWMW Risk AssessmentWhat 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 …


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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


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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?

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?


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Brainstorming

Ideas

Audiences

Exhibition

Structure

Sponsorship

Innovation Competition

Social Events

“You must be joking!”

User engagement

Group Exercise: Write down your ideas. Feel free to think imaginatively and outside the box

Name / theme

Web site preservation Links with DL

community

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My ThoughtsA 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 workWorking With FE

• HE/FE differences existed previously, but we’ve all now got similar interests in Web 2.0


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Questions

Any questions?

"Do not ask what the community can do for you, ask what you can do for the community""Do not ask what the community can do for you, ask what you can do for the community"

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