New Comments : IWMW2009 Ideas

Comment by apbl500

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:59:23 PDT

Hi Andy - I probably won't make it to IWMW this year (second kid will have just arrived) but I am genuinely interested in Agile techniques, so this gets my vote! Hope you're well. -Anthony.

Comment by piero.tintori

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT

This guy goes some great talks in this area: http://www.markgr.com/

Comment by cjg

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT

I have so many hats in this discussion (developer, repo admin, web manager), I'll be happy to join in on this one.

Comment by cjg

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT

We've done some nice work on our site search. It no longer searches HTML pages, but the underlying databases, plus pulls out commonly searched terms and has pre-prepared suggestions.

This was based on studying a years worth of search queries.

Try it:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

It searches our members, research projects, research themes, publications, press releases, and a few other odds and ends.

Comment by s.lever

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT

http://mobile.utexas.edu/
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/hsl/mobile/mobilecircinfo.html
http://uc2go.mobi/
http://mobile.usablenet.com/mt/illinois.edu/mobile/?un_jtt_redirect

Are all interesting to view you will see a lot of similarity, something worth checking out is how maps are handled and then think about how you might want to represent your campus.

This is no different than building any website you have to make it comply with standards (mobile standards), usable and accessible but your main hurdle is getting resources to go ahead!

Comment by helen.newnham

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PST

I'm very interested too. Tentatively starting to put together a couple of pages exclusively for mobile devices.

As well as the mti example, http://www.utexas.mobi is another US uni example. Not as visually pleasing as mti's site, but it's interesting to compare the two for content.

Comment by j.speller

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Right - not being anti - I really would like to see this one!

Comment by owen.patel

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

I think the underlying aspects of this are the key - it doesn't have to be the BBC, but they have some good stuff to say, and very practical demonstration of why you should use some of the concepts I mentioned in the original suggestion. I also hope that some of IWMW can be aspirational!

Comment by j.speller

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Be good to see but, sadly for use in HE, how the BBC makes websites is with loads of licence payers' dosh...

Comment by Michael Nolan

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Nick has just reviewed his first UK university - Oxford!

http://educheckup.com/2009/02/23/university-of-oxford-episode-54/

If they can handle the (constructive!) criticism, surely everyone else can too :)

Comment by Ben Steeples

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

This sounds very interesting :) +1

Comment by v.zarach

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Just had to say I like the title for this one, although I would prefer to take Barbarians to Civilisation...

Comment by v.zarach

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Such a good idea for a session, Adrian! I only joined Twitter last week and am already suffering mild twitter paranoia, and also have phases where I remove several Facebook friends, and then consider obliterating all online data about myself and retreating to small hammock in unidentified location...however, I love the social and professional benefits of these networks...it's a constant inner battle!

Vashti

Comment by j.speller

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

I'd be very interested in this - been banging on about it for years at my place but it keeps getting sidelined. m.mit.edu is a first class example of how to do it - best on iPhone of course :-).

Comment by j.speller

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Yup - I like the sound of this one. In general things tend to end up mushed up rather mashed up when Web/MIS team collide, but it can be done. Sympathetic and open-minded project management can do wonders...

Comment by j.speller

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Very interesting Russell - thanks for the comments - I\ll be in touch in due course.

Comment by debbie

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

So long as it's not as hot as it was in Aberdeen! Things you never thought you'd ever hear!

Comment by hvs1001

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

While I think this would be interesting, my worry would be that their reach is so beyond ours it would ultimately be depressing. It would be useful if someone from the BBC could identify their best practices that it would be possible to migrate to our kind of tin-pot rickety set ups.

Comment by Michael Nolan

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

I think this kind of session could be really interesting but it might be useful to have a few suggestions on what it might cover and how it could be structured. Workshop vs presentation? Looking at specific systems?

Comment by m.mcconnell

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

So long as it's not as hot as it was in Aberdeen!

Comment by a.stewart

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

I was thinking along the lines of a quick fire brainstorm on the good, the bad and the ugly (I suppose that fits) and then making a start. Hadn't really thought any more about it, I just know I'd been involved with a number of sessions where it's been discussed but nothings ever evolved so maybe we do just need to get our hands dirty?

Comment by jonathan

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

www.licencetoceilidh.com you know it makes sense...

Comment by r.m.allen

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

I'd certainly like to contribute to this. I started at Bradford as the Portal project manager working on Oracle Portal via the CampusEAI consortium. The project is currently suspended, for what I consider to be the right reasons. If you want to know any more or how our experience at Bradford might be tailored to your presentation, please do contact me
Russell Allen
E-Strategy project manager

Comment by j.speller

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

I seem to recall saying something like this a couple of years ago at York and being shot down for being the old fuddy-duddy in the cheap seats!!

Comment by Pete Johnston

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

I was going to suggest something along the lines of a tutorial on the RESTful use of HTTP, but I think this suggestion would fit the bill quite nicely.

Comment by michael.nolan

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

I'm really interested in this, both from a developer point of view and with a management hat on. Think it would be useful to see case studies on how it applies to different types of project which might be typical in HigherEd, especially when working in small teams, for example where only one or two people might be working on a project.

Comment by michael.nolan

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

I agree, a good live ceilidh band is good fun - perhaps daaan saaaf it would have to be a barn dance?

Comment by r.davis

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

in essex?!

Comment by r.davis

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

do you mean have a debate about what's best, or just get on and do it with e.g. crowdvine or ning?

Comment by duncan.ireland

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Certainly a great sounding idea but massively people dependent in terms of both having folk step forward to champion something and relying on those people being sufficiently engaging and charismatic for the format to work.

Comment by duncan.ireland

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Although perhaps not driven by the credit crunch in and of itself, it may be that organisations striving for efficiency improvements will reorganise. How might these reorganisations be quickly and accurately reflected online and in other areas? What processes, structures and tools might help with this? How can institutional web masters demonstrate efficiencies and value for money to senior management?

Comment by d.mcconnell

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Yes to a live band! Maybe an open mic before for music/spoken word/songs slagging off Brian?

Comment by mjukes

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Like the idea of 'skunk works' as discussed in Daves post here http://davepress.net/2009/02/15/social-media-skunkworks/ for the Institutional Web - I get the impression there is a long history of this sort of thing in HE

Comment by r.davis

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

might be good for some kind of breakout/feedback/discussion section. baloon debate even. everyone is a champion of their own favourites; and there's good and bad in all apps, from sl to twitter, but can we objectively evaluate and prioritise them?

Comment by j.speller

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Great idea - "Strictly Come Webbing"? "The XHTML Factor"?

Comment by j.speller

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Why? Because it's a huge pile of documentation understood by Tim Berners-Lee alone - and I believe that TBL is on record admitting as much!

What? Take the best of the core principles and embed them into our day-to-day webbery. In order to do so, of course, you have to understand some of the pile which no one understands...

Comment by j.speller

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

As we found after the dot-com bubble burst, the loss to commerce can be higher education's gain in terms of quality staff!

Comment by ben

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

It might be worthwhile looking at some of the older Web 2.0 and social networking applications as well. I'm not sure if there are any failed Web 2.0 technologies, but it would be interesting to see if anyone has bought in to one which is now considered worthless.

Comment by m.guy

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST

Can they really enhance learning and teaching, communications and institutional Web services?