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Including Your Missing 20% By Embedding Web and Mobile Accessibility
Launch of a Book on Web and Mobile Accessibility Last week, on Monday 10 November 2014, Professor Jonathan Hassell launched his highly anticipated book entitled “Including Your Missing 20% By Embedding...
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Making Effective Use of Google Docs (and Who Will Support Researchers?)
Looking to Make Google Docs a Richer Authoring Environment The Table of Contents add-on for Google Docs These days I find myself making extensive use of Google Docs. This is the tool of choice for the...
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Sharing Information, Misinformation and Untruths
Recent Mainstream Examples of Misinformation and Untruths It’s good to share. And we now have a global infrastructure in place which facilitates sharing and encourages discussions on the information...
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Flickr and Creative Commons; Lessons from Open Source Software
Flickr’s Commercial Exploitation of Photographs Yesterday in a post entitled Sharing Information, Misinformation and Untruths I suggested that an article entitled “Flickr is about to sell off your...
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Librarians and Wikipedia: an Ideal Match?
Characteristics of Librarians Image illustrating librarians’ characteristics from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_library What are the key characteristics of librarians? According to...
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Implications for Institutions of a Backlash Against Facebook
Moves Away from Facebook? We are apparently seeing a backlash against use of Facebook. Over the weekend a post on Facebook’s struggle to keep teens described how, although in September 2014 had 864...
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OpenSocial and the OpenSocial Foundation: Moves to W3C
Yesterday, 16th December 2014, the OpenSocial Foundation and the W3C announced that the “OpenSocial Foundation [is] Moving Standards Work to [the] W3C Social Web Activity“. In the press release John...
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Seminar on “Preparing Our Users For Digital Life Beyond The Institution”
Later today I am giving a seminar on “Preparing Our Users For Digital Life Beyond The Institution” for the iSchool at Northumbria University. As described on the iSchool web site: For nearly 70 years...
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Microsoft Adopts First International Cloud Privacy Standard
Announcement On Monday 16 January 2015 Microsoft announced that they had adopted the first international Cloud privacy standard. The standard in question is ISO/IEC 27018, the code of practice for...
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Sharing Project Practices: the LACE Compendium
Open Practices Covered in this Blog I have written a number of posts on various aspects of openness since this blog was launched back in 2007, with posts in recent months covering topics such as...
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MTSR 2015, the 9th Metadata & Semantics Research Conference (and its use of...
MTSR 2015, the 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference The 9th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference has recently announced its call for papers, which is also available as a PDF document....
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Identifying and Preparing for Technological Developments
THE Article on Technology Trends for 2015 An article published yesterday in the THE (Times Higher Education) summarised the 6 key trends accelerating technology adoption in higher education in 2015....
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Call For Submissions for IWMW 2015
About IWMW A year ago, in a post entitled “Call For Submissions for IWMW 2014” I reviewed the history of IWMW, the Institutional Web Management Workshop series which was launched in 1997 and, from 1997...
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Revisiting Ideas for IWMW 2015
Beyond Digital: Transforming the Institution A recent post on this blog announced the Call For Submissions for IWMW 2015. The post suggested that the theme for this year’s annual Institutional Web...
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What Can IWMW Learn From Higher Education Web Events in the US?
IWMW Events: Learning From One’s Peers A recent post on Revisiting Ideas for IWMW 2015 explored some ideas for possible sessions at this year’s IWMW 2015 event which has the theme “Beyond Digital:...
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Master Classes at IWMW 2015
Strengths and Weakness of Workshops at IWMW Events In a recent post I asked “What Can IWMW Learn From Higher Education Web Events in the US?“. In the post I pointed out that the eduWeb and HighEdWeb...
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IWMW 2015 Open For Bookings!
IWMW 2015 Open For Bookings I’m pleased to announce that bookings are now open for IWMW 2015, the 19th in the series of annual Institutional Web Management Workshops, which provide development...
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Life After Cetis: the Launch of the UK Web Focus Consultancy
Looking Back Brian Kelly is now an independent consultant after 19 years working at UKOLN and then Cetis. Friday was my final day working at Cetis – my contract has now finished. I’m now in the process...
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Guest Post: eduWeb: American version of a Higher Education Marketing Conference
About this Guest Post This year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2015, takes place at Edge Hill University on 27-29 July. At the same time the eduWeb 2015 conference is taking place in...
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Guest Post: Making Usability Testing Agile
At this year’s IWMW 2015 event Neil Allison, the User Experience Manager at the University of Edinburgh will facilitate a half-day master class on “Usability Testing in an Agile Development Process“....
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