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.
Social Activities at IWMW 2017
Since the IWMW event was launched in 1997 support for the growth of the web management community has been ranked as important as the content shared in plenary talks and workshop sessions. For many years the conference dinner on the opening night provided opportunities...
Overview of Speakers at IWMW Events
Attracting Speakers from the Community What's a good way of sharing experiences and learning from others? An approach taken at IWMW events has been to encourage members of the web management community to share their experiences with others who have responsibilities...
IWMW17 Sessions Beyond Traditional Web Management
Parallel sessions at the IWMW 2017 event will go beyond those on best practices for providing mainstream institutional web sites. Other sessions provide opportunities for participants to learn new skills (e.g. on data and virtual tours); one use of social web services and on developing one’s general work skills. And if you’re confused by language used by techies, the Web 101 session might appeal!
Host Institutions for IWMW Participants (and a Survey for Non-Participants!)
This blog post introduces a survey which aims to address those who do not attend IWMW events in order to discover the reasons for this. Surveying non-attendees at an event is clearly not easy – how do we find these people? We hope that IWMW attendees will be willing to share information about the survey – and to incentivise completion of the survey those who complete the form will be entered into a draw for a small gift.
Profiling Speakers and Facilitators at IWMW 2017
There are over 40 speakers and workshop facilitators at the forthcoming IWMW 2017 event. But what are the characteristics of the people willing to stand up in public and share their thoughts on best practices for providing institutional web services?
IWMW 2017: The Workshops and Master Classes
IWMW 2017 will be held at the University of Kent on 11-13 July. This post provides details of the plenary sessions, workshops and master class sessions.
IWMW 2017: Summary of the Plenary Talks
About IWMW 2017 The annual Institutional Web Management Worksop, IWMW 2017, will take place at the University of Kent on 11-13 July 2017. The programme for the event is available. This post, which is a slightly modified version of a post initially published on the UK...
Guest Post: Marketing Open Research
Today’s ‘interesting times’ means that, for researchers, the researcher and the their research outputs are ‘the product’ suggests Nick Shappard in today’s guest post.
Guest Post: Developing Institutional Use of Student-created Content
About This Guest Post In today’s guest post Tom Wright, Director of Digital Student Life at the University of Lincoln, summarises the challenges of institutional use of student-created content – a topic Tom will be revisiting in a workshop session at the IWMW 2017...
Guest Post: What We Talk About When We Talk About Websites
Today’s guest post features another contribution from a member of the IWMW 2017 advisory group. In this post Kevin Mears looks for answers to the question “What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Websites?”.
Guest Post: Dr Strangepriorities or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Academy
About this Guest post In the second guest post following the re-launch of the IWMW blog Chris Gutteridge describes how he learned to stop worrying and love the academy! Dr Strangepriorities or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Academy As a member of the...
Guest Post: It’s the End of My Career as I Know it (And I Feel Fine)
The re-launch of the IWMW blog begins with a guest post by Claire Gibbons. Claire is co-chair of the IWMW 2017 event and, as she describes in this post, is now a self-employed consultant after working for many years at the University of Bradford. It is particularly timely to publish this post today, on International Women’s Day.
Reopening of the IWMW Blog
On 14 March 2016 the launch of IWMW blog was announced. A total of 50 posts have been published including 32 guest posts written by members of the UK's web management community. Last year the 20th anniversary of the IWMW event provided an opportunity for members of...
IWMW 2017: Call for Submissions Now Open!
I am pleased to announce that the call for submissions for the IWMW 2017 event is now open. The IWMW 2017 event will be held at the University of Kent on 11-13 July 2017. This year's event is the 21st in the series, which was founded in 1997. This event is the...
IWMW 2016 – It’s About The Community!
The IWMW 2016 event is now over. From the comments I've received so far the event was a great success, attracting 139 delegates from across the UK's higher education community, related HE agencies and other public sector bodies, from commercial companies which work...
Skin Deep: Using Cosmetic Improvement to Drive Real Change
In the second plenary presentation at IWMW16, Gareth Edwards from the University of Greenwich provided a case study of a three month site re-skin project carried out at the University of Greenwich.
Requirements Are Hypotheses: How Lean UX Can Help You Develop Better Products
In the opening plenary of IWMW 2016, Neil Allison from University of Edinburgh introduced the key concepts of Lean UX, how it can help you better meet business and user needs, and how it can nudge your colleagues to think about their requirements differently.
Looking Back Over 20 Years
Twenty years ago Helen Sargan attended her first IWMW event. In this guest post Helen, a regular participant at IWMW events, looks back over the past twenty years of the event.
How Many Individuals Have Spoken at IWMW Events?
A recent post summarised the total number of speakers at IWMW events. This post looks into the data more deeply in order to answer the question “How many individuals have spoken at IWMW events?”
How Many Speakers Have There Been At IWMW Events?
In the first of a number of posts which look into the 20 year history of IWMW events Brian Kelly answers the question “How many speakers have there been at IWMW events?”