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Category: Conferences
It's a little over five years since our last major redevelopment of the Edge Hill news website when it moved from a classic ASP application into Symfony with lots of new functionality. In that time it's been well used (and abused) with 1337 new articles plus an archive of 537 articles dating back to July 2001 … Continue reading News moves to WordPress
Wednesday night at Static played host to the second Liverpool Social Media Cafe and I was one of the speakers. The audio was recorded so you can hear exactly what I said or read below for some notes. RSS is not dead For the last few years various people have claimed that RSS is dead, … Continue reading Handling Social Media Overload
At IWMW last week I ran a BarCamp session titled "Slate My Website... and Your Website?". As I explained on the IWMW blog, the format of the session is based on Nick DeNardis' EDU Checkup and consists of three parts: 10 second test: show then hide the homepage then try to remember as much as … Continue reading He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikenolan/4789923694/ Once again, Paul Boag from Headscape spoke at the Institutional Web Management Workshop, this year in Sheffield. The plenary talk was titled No Money, No Matter and was generally accepted to be one of the highlights of the conference. Much of the content Paul has covered separately on his blog and [failed :-)] podcast … Continue reading Will you be our expert?
A couple of weeks ago, Mark Power and I were approached to cover Anthony Doherty's workshop Mobile Apps vs Mobile Web. We spent a week working through some ideas then finalised what we were talking about on arrival in Sheffield on Monday afternoon. After the session, Kirsty Pitkin collared me to record a short piece … Continue reading Mobile Apps vs Mobile Web
Following Hacks meet Hackers on Friday I decided that two conferences in a week wasn't enough and headed into Manchester to WordCamp UK at MMU's Business School. It was a full weekend event including socials in the evening but prior commitments meant I could only go for the day. In case the name doesn't give … Continue reading WordCamp UK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikenolan/4805671393/ It's been a busy week with the Institutional Web Management Workshop last Monday to Wednesday in Sheffield and WordCamp UK happening in Manchester this weekend but on Friday I took a day off to pop down to a hack day in Liverpool. The event was hosted by LJMU's Open Labs at the Art and … Continue reading Hacks meet Hackers
Last night was Liverpool's first Social Media Café at Static. SMC's are nothing new - they've been running in cities around the UK, and the world, for a while but it's good to see one happening closer to home. The format for the evening was three speakers with generous breaks between to grab a beverage … Continue reading Social Media Café Liverpool
This blog post fell foul to my golden rule for blogging: Never leave a post in draft for more than 48 hours I nearly deleted the draft but it seems like a shame to waste it. There's another Barcamp Blackpool coming up next month but unfortunately I can't make it. Read more after the break! … Continue reading BarCamp Blackpool