I spent three days out of the office last week at the Institutional Web Management Workshop in Sheffield. The conference theme was 'The Web in turbulent times' and though it sounded a bit gloomy (and indeed started that way when we were asked to look around and ponder who would be out of a job in 12 months - see from the 13th minute of the video), there were lots of positive ideas and opportunities being discussed.
There are videos and presentation slides online so I'll not go over the sessions, but I recommend taking a look. In particular, Paul Boag made great points about viewing a tightening of belts as an opportunity to assert web team authority over sprawling sites - something that seemed to strike a chord with lots of delegates. Paul's slides are available, but if you've got the time then the video of his talk is well worth watching.
In the final session Brian Kelly implored university web teams to blog more (and he's written a blog post on the same matter). I certainly enjoy and value reading what other universities are up to and hopefully this blog is of interest to colleagues both at York and elsewhere. However, I've been guilty for a long time of being 'too busy' to contribute. One of my IWMW resolutions this year is therefore to do my bit and contribute regularly to the 7500 posts that Brian reckons the HE community could produce each year. Hopefully I'll find something interesting to say...
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