IWMW 2014: Welcome talk for the IWMW 2014 event given by Brian Kelly See http://iwmw.org/iwmw2014/talks/welcome/

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/
University of Northumbria,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  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 as part of UKOLN’s Jisc-
funded activities
• Supported Jisc’s innovation 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 2014
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
19.00 Dinner at Halls of Residence

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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)
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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IWMW 15
Do we want
an IWMW
2015?
What
changes
should we
make?
• Weekend
sessions?
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IWMW 2015
• 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 • Siteimprove
Exhibitors and additional sponsors
• Squiz • APS
The speakers:
• 11 plenary speakers plus panellists
The workshop facilitators:
• ~10 facilitators
The organising team:
• Steve Boneham, Philip Swinhoe & Dave Hartland, Netskills
• 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

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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 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
19.00 Dinner at Halls of Residence