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June 2007
June 01, 2007
Guest Post: Let The Students Do The Talking
June 01, 2007
This week I’ll be publishing a number of guest blog posts, from plenary speakers at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop, the theme of which is “Next Steps for the Web Management Community“. I should also add that there are still a small number of places available - but we would advise you to book a place quickly ...
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June 03, 2007
Further Thoughts On Blog Metrics
June 03, 2007
In response to a recent post on “Blogging And Learning From One’s Peers” I received a comment from Wendell Dryden who asked: Is popularity and/or hit counting a measure of good practice? Asked another way: what’s the objective of the blog, and did it reach that objective? That’s a good question - and one which I’ll be revisiting in ...
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June 04, 2007
Guest Post: Social Participation for Student Recruitment
June 04, 2007
This week sees a number of guest blog posts from plenary speakers at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop, which will be held at the University of York on 16-18 July. Today’s guest blog post is by Paul Boag. The title of the post is “Social participation for student recruitment“. Social participation renaissance I am really looking forward to attending ...
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June 05, 2007
Guest Post: The Promise of Information Architecture
June 05, 2007
Today’s guest post is written by Keith Doyle, who will be giving a plenary talk on The Promise of Information Architecture at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop. I have been asked to present a plenary session at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop on The Promise of Information Architecture. But what are promise, information and architecture? According ...
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June 06, 2007
Guest Post: Marketing Man Takes Off His Tie
June 06, 2007
Today’s guest post is from Peter Reader, Director of Marketing and Communications at the University of Bath. Peter will be giving a plenary talk entitled “Marketing Man takes off his Tie: Customers, Communities and Communication” at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (which, incidentally, is now fully subscribed). And, as you’ll see from Peter’s post, he will ...
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June 08, 2007
Amazon Links From Library Web Sites
June 08, 2007
I noticed recently that the Perth College Library Webspots blog published a a post back in April which included links to Amazon for further information about books held at the library. I think this is a useful service - the books are mentioned in context, and the Amazon link enables further information about the book to be obtained. And ...
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June 11, 2007
Video Clips To Launch An Event
June 11, 2007
This year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop, at the University of York, starts after lunch on 16th July 2007. Back in 2004, when the event was held at the University of Birmingham, I opened the workshop by showing a video clip of “Steve Ballmer’s [of Microsoft] crowd pleasing repertoire of the grotesque“. It was a great light-hearted way of ...
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June 12, 2007
Evaluating Facebook
June 12, 2007
How should we, in our institutions, go about evaluating the potential of Facebook? How can we gain a better understanding for the benefits it may provide to our students? How should we explore its limitations? And should we be pro-active in providing access to our data (our search facilities, our RSS feeds, our applications) from within Facebook? I’ve come ...
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June 13, 2007
Web 2.0 for Content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
June 13, 2007
Via posts on the DigitalKoans and Record Management Futurewatch I came across references to a new JISC-funded report on “Web 2.0 for Content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education” (PDF format) by Tom Franklin and Mark van Harmelen. This 27-page long document provides a series of recommendations to JISC on how it should respond to the challenges posed by ...
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Google Email for TCD - And It’s My Fault!
June 13, 2007
A recent BBC News headline enititled “Google’s e-mail for universities“ states that “Trinity College Dublin has switched to Google’s e-mail - with other universities considering such a switch“. A news item on the Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Web site gives their perspective - and this has also been discussed by Alison Wildish on the Edge Hill University’s Web Service blog. And I ...
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June 14, 2007
Tim Berners-Lee, Order of Merit
June 14, 2007
An email I have just received: It is my pleasure to inform you that Queen Elizabeth II, Head of State of the UK, has appointed Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web, to be a member of the Order of Merit. Founded in 1902 by King Edward VII, the Order of Merit [1] is conferred by ...
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Open Standards - Are We There Yet?
June 14, 2007
When will all the open standards we need be finalised? What will happen when that day arrives? And are we there yet? Daft questions, you may be thinking. But if that’s the case - and we’ll never arrive at a position in which the open standards we need are all done - what does this mean for the development ...
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June 15, 2007
Facebook and the Institutional Web
June 15, 2007
One of the advantages that use of a social networking environment such as Facebook can provide is the ability to see the Facebook applications that one’s peers are deploying. This was how I spotted that John Kirriemuir had added the UIUC Library Search application to his Facebook account: “What does this do?” I wondered, before deciding that it was worth investing ...
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June 18, 2007
Are W3C Crazy?
June 18, 2007
Phil Wilson recently reported on his trip to the XTech 2007 conference. Phil’s report included a bullet point which said that “The W3C are crazy”. In response to my request for clarification Phil said that: There seemed to be a couple of big fat W3C elephants in the room. The first was that the w3c are doing stuff for use ...
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June 19, 2007
Monitoring Web Server Usage Across A Community
June 19, 2007
How many public Web servers are there at your University? And how have the numbers changed over the past 5 years? Are you running more servers, as the range of services you provide grows, or have the numbers of servers decreased due to rationalisation in order to avoid duplication of efort across the institution? I published an article on ...
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June 20, 2007
Embracing Constraints
June 20, 2007
When you are involved in development work it seems that you need to ensure that every possible contingency is catered for, all relevant standards are used, the software is repurposable, the service complies fully with accessibility guidelines, can be used by every browser and on every platform, etc., etc. No wonder software seems to take so long to be ...
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June 21, 2007
Search Engines On University Web Sites
June 21, 2007
A few years ago I carried out periodic surveys of search engine usage on University Web sites. The surveys were carried out at about 6-monthly intervals from 1999-2003, with an additional (partial) survey, using data provided by Lucy Anscombe of Thames Valley University, being published in 2005. The surveys provided an opportunity to monitor trends, which informed discussions within ...
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June 22, 2007
The ‘Cities Visited’ Facebook Application
June 22, 2007
Over the past year or so I have been geo-located the talks I’ve given. This involves using Google Maps top find the latitude and longitude of the venue and adding this to an RSS feed for my talks. This gives me the ability to display maps of my forthcoming events and talks I gave in 2006 ...
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June 25, 2007
Accessibility and Innovation
June 25, 2007
“I’m looking into the potential of Web 2.0 / mashups / Second Life / … for our museum’s Web site. What do others think about this?“ This, in various guises, is a question which surfaces from time to time on the MCG JISCMail list - and I’m sure the question will be raised in other sectors. A common response ...
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June 26, 2007
Slideshare Available From Facebook
June 26, 2007
My colleague Nitin Parmar, a Learning Technologist at the University of Bath, has just alerted me to a post on the Slideshare blog which has just announced that SlideShare is available on FaceBook! I’ve just tried it and uploaded a few of my slides to my Facebook account. The interface is shown below. The Slideshare blog posts admits ...
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June 27, 2007
Web 2.0: Opportunity Or Threat For IT Support Staff?
June 27, 2007
On Thursday 21st June 2007 I gave the opening plenary talk on Web 2.0: Opportunity Or Threat For IT Support Staff? at the UCISA-SDG IT Support Staff Symposium. The symposium was opened by David Harrison, Assistant Director of Information Services at the University of Cardiff and the current UCISA chair. In his introduction David argued strongly that IT ...
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June 28, 2007
Yahoo Pipes and IWMW 2007 Innovation Competition
June 28, 2007
In order to support the Innovation Competition which is a new feature of the annual Institutional Web Management Workshop we are providing access to a variety of RSS feeds, including feeds of the location of all eleven IWMW events and the location of the host institutions for plenary speakers at all of the events. In addition RSS feeds ...
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June 29, 2007
Strictly Forbidden
June 29, 2007
Whilst attending the Museums Mashup which preceded the UK Museums and the Web 2007 conference recently I spotted the following notice which was pinned on the wall in several of the PC cluster rooms (and thanks to Jim O’Donnell for taking this and other photos at the event). As someone who used to work in a number of IT ...
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