The IWMW Blog
The IWMW blog has been set up to support providers of institutional web and other digital services across the UK’s higher and further education sectors. The initial focus of the blog is the history of the IWMW event.
The blog was established for IWMW 2016, the 20th anniversary event to provide a record of memories of the event and the development and growth of the UK Web management / digital community. The blog continues to fulfil that purpose, with posts tending to be published around the time of the annual IWMW event.
Contributions to the blog are invited from all members of the institutional web management community – please read the guidelines if interested, which also has a list of the guest posts.
IWMW 2020
The 24th annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, was due to take place at the University of Dundee on 30 June – 2 July 2020. Due to Covid this event was cancelled.
The HE Digital Slack Community
The HE Digital Slack group was set up by members of the IWMW Advisory Group to provide a forum for sharing and discussions of topics relevant to those working in institutional web and digital teams in the UK higher education community.
A post on the IWMW blog provides further information.
The Life Academic (video of talk #P14)
Christopher Gutteridge has been on safari with academics at the University of Southampton. Watch his IWMW 2017 plenary talk to hear a summary of his findings.
Building a Collaborative Culture in an Institution (video of talk #P13)
Watch Stratos Filalithis discuss how the University of Edinburgh is attempting to break silos and organisational barriers to enable and build a collaborative culture to deliver web services.
How to Win Over Your Colleagues and Make Life Easier (video of talk #P12)
Watch Paul Boag at IWMW17, where he outlined tips and techniques that will raise the profile of digital, and approaches to win over colleagues and make your teams life easier.
5 Conversion Techniques that Higher Ed Can Learn From eCommerce (video of talk #P9)
Watch Piero Tintori at IWMW 2017 outline five conversion techniques that higher ed can learn from eCommerce including personalisation, predictive analytics and CRM ‘student’ life-cycle integration.
Students as Humans: Understanding and Segmenting the Real Student Experience (video of talk #P9)
Watch Michael Frantzis’ IWMW 2017 plenary talk, exploring how data-driven understanding can be used to improve both student recruitment and retention.
Building a Digital Publishing Platform (video of talk #P8)
Watch Rich Prowse explain at IWMW 2017 how the University of Bath digital team is building a publishing platform for the future.
Oxford Mosaic – A Web Publishing Platform for the Future (video of talk #P7)
Watch Matthew Castle and Ruth Mason discuss Oxford Mosaic – a centralised web publishing platform – at IWMW 2017.
Realising the Vision of a Single Source of Course Information (video of talk #P6)
Watch Graham Bird, Jenni Taylor and David Hopkins at IWMW17, where they discuss Cardiff University’s efforts to establish a single source of course information
You Touched It Last: Designing Governance for Devolved Institutions (video of talk #P5)
Watch Gareth Edwards’ IWMW 2017 plenary talk, in which he explore some of the common problems with devolving digital management to local users.
Making Digital Change Happen (video of talk #P4)
Watch Melanie Read’s IWMW17 plenary talk, in which she outlines the approach taken by the University of London to address its muddled online presence.
High Sights, High Standards (video of talk #P3)
Watch Carley Hollis’ IWMW17 plenary talk, where she discusses St Andrews University’s the three-pronged approach to standardise, document and educate.
Having a Good Crisis…and Not Wasting It (video of talk #P2)
Watch Andrew Millar’s IWMW 2017 plenary talk, where he discusses how to use a crisis to get people to think differently and start to effect change.
The UK’s European University in a Time of Brexit (video of talk #P1)
Watch Bonnie Ferguson’s opening plenary talk from IWMW 2017, where she discusses how universities can become anti-fragile in the face of changes in the HE landscape.
IWMW 2017: Participants’ Feedback
This post is the first in a series which will reflect on the IWMW 2017 event which was held at the University of Kent on 11-13 July 2017. Today’s post provides a review of the comments made.
Communication Tools For The HE-Digital Community
A Communications Infrastructure for the UK HE Digital Community At the recent IWMW 2017 event I facilitated a session on "A Communications Infrastructure for the UK HE Digital Community". The aims of the session were simple: What do we need from communication tools...
Guest Post: Pair Writing — the Healthy Way to Get Content
In today’s guest post Lauren Tormey provides the background to the workshop session on how to “Create Effective Content Quickly With Pair Writing”.
Guest Post: The Sixty Minute (Data Dashboard) Makeover!
At the forthcoming IWMW 2017 event Marieke Guy is co-facilitating a workshop session on building a data dashboard. In this guest post Marieke provides the background to the workshop.
Guest Post: Why Universities Need To Take A Step Back To Let Digital In
The latest in the series of guest blog posts comes from Precedent, a sponsor of the IWMW 2017 event. This thoughtful post describes why universities need to “take a step back to let digital in”.
Guest Post: How I Got Here
A number of guest posts are being published on the IWMW blog from those involved with the IWMW 2017 event. Today’s post is by Alberto Guglielmi of the University of Birmingham. Alberto is facilitating a workshop session on “User Testing – A Toolkit” at IWMW 2017. In this post Alberto describes how he came to submit a proposal to the event.
Guest Post: Battling the Negative
Andrew Millar, Head of Web Services at the University of Dundee, will give a plenary talk at the IWMW 2017 event in the opening session which has the theme “The End Of The World?”. The title of Andrew’s talk is “Having a Good Crisis…and Not Wasting It” and in this guest post he gives the background to the talk.