It's a week since myself, Andy, Sam and Steve Daniels were up in Aberdeen for IWMW 2008. I've already blogged about my parallel workshop session, the BarCamp-style sessions and my thoughts about the lack of blogging web teams while Andy has posted his top five lists (#4 worst thing: listening to Alison's talk). Everything I've … Continue reading Granite, seagulls and a surprisingly warm Aberdeen
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We've been blogging in the web team for over a year now and it's become another part of the work I do but some conversations I had at IWMW 2008 got me thinking about the wider Higher Education Community. Blogging web teams are rare. I suspect you could count them on one hand: Edge Hill … Continue reading Blogging web teams
For the last few days, I've had the pleasure to attend the Institutional Web Management Workshop in Aberdeen with Mike, Sam and Steve. Aside from registration, the event seemed to just fly by, so until I can focus on specific events, here's a few, hazy, memories. The 5 Best Things Ewan McIntosh's Unleashing the Tribe … Continue reading IWMW 2008 – a 3ish day blur
There's some speakers to do the conference circuit who recycle the same old material each time they present and if I'm not careful I could turn into one of them! At this year's IWMW, they held a "BarCamp" session. If you're already familiar with BarCamps then don't get too excited as it wasn't a proper … Continue reading 10ish five-minute ways to improve your website
A few months ago, the call for submissions for IWMW went out and at the last minute I sent off my idea for a parallel workshop session, "Stuff what we're doing at Edge Hill University". I must admit I didn't really have much idea at the time what I thought I'd talk about other than … Continue reading Stuff what we’re doing at Edge Hill University
Over a month since the last post on the blog - not good! Well this week we'll make up for it as myself, Sam, Andy and Steve D head North to Aberdeen for the Institutional Web Management Workshop. This annual event allows those involved in the provision of web services in Higher and Further Education … Continue reading IWMW 2008
I mentioned previously about some of the feeds we're providing for news and events and said at the end of the post that we'd be doing some stuff for the Institutional Web Management Workshop. Well it's finally time that we have to firm up what that stuff is! Edge Hill - along with the Universities … Continue reading Use our data
I meant to blog about this last week but bank-holiday-weekend-fever caught up with me. 1st May was RSS Day - aimed at raising awareness of feeds and how they can be used to stay connected to websites that interest you. I've blogged before about the topic and said then we'd be introducing more feeds in … Continue reading Choice Part 7: Bite the hand that feeds you