Web Community at Bradford
Launch Event 1st July 2009
Overview
An event to reinvigorate and excite colleagues
about ‘the web’ in light of the new Corporate
Strategy 2009 – 2014
Outline of the morning
• 9.45am - Colleagues arrive, refreshments and get settled
• 10.00am - Welcome
• 10.05am - Mark Cleary – the importance of UoB online in light of the new
Corporate Plan
• 10.20am - Tom Woolley from the National Media Museum – internet
gallery announcement
• 10.40am - Official launch of the Web Team and CMS (and introduction to
the School Web Officers)
• 11.00am - The CMS in Action – case studies (Hub, Press Office)
• 11.20am - Break
After the break . . .
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11.35am - Aspects of Online Activities
Training (Jacqui Cuthbert)
Research and KT; Bradford Scholars (Tamsin Holt and Polly Dawes)
Mobile (John Fairhall)
Learning and Teaching (Maureen Readle et al)
Support and Infrastructure
Internal Comms (Stefan Ingolfsson)
12.35pm - Group exercise: web opportunities and concerns in your area;
brainstorm
1.15pm - Feedback, plans going forwards and thanks
1.30pm - Lunch and networking
2.00pm - CLOSE
Prof. Mark Cleary
Vice-Chancellor
Tom Woolley
National Media Museum
The Web Team and the CMS
Official Launch and Introduction!
The Web Team and CMS
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Background
Who we are
What we do
The CMS – what is it?
What we’ve done and are doing
How we can help you
How you can help us
Bigger Plans and ideas
Useful resources
Web Team - background
• CMS Project – outcome
• Business Case and funded for two years
initially
• 3 posts
• Grown already!
• A University Web Team
Who we are and what we do
• VIDEO
Who we are and what we do
• Manager, Developer, Editor, School Web Officer
• Project Manage the development of new/existing sites
into the CMS
• Represent ‘the web’ at committee level
• Work with colleagues right across UoB – co-ordinate
effort, not control
• Strategic/planned, user oriented development
• Consistency with personality
• The web as part of, rather than an addition to
The Academic School Web Officers
The CMS – what is it?
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Terminal Four’s SiteManager
Procured under eStrategy – Project 12
Separates style (look and feel) from content
Gives ownership to the content provider
2 to 3 hours training
‘Fancy stuff’ still developed by Web Team
or LSS
• http://www.terminalfour.com/
What we’ve done
• Live
– http://www.brad.ac.uk/mediacentre/
– http://www.brad.ac.uk/hub/
– http://www.brad.ac.uk/first-aid/
– http://www.brad.ac.uk/escalate/
– http://www.brad.ac.uk/publicationscheme/
– http://www.brad.ac.uk/accommodation/
In development/about to start
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Unique Fitness and Lifestyle
SLED
Graduates’ Association
Arts on Campus
Open Day
Alumni
Fundraising
HR/Personnel
Swine Flu
Internal Comms
Admissions
Dubai
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Course content
ICT
IPI
Nursery
Chemistry
Vision Sciences
Marketing and Comms
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Summer Experience
Compact
Purchasing
External top -level
How we can help you
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Mandate for web development – strategic focus
Making the most of now – new technologies
Simple project management methodologies
Wider team of experts
Development into the CMS – maintain own site
Content is still King – but not just the written
word
How you can help us
• Appetite and resources to change
• Small team of (willing!) colleagues on board
• People that ‘do’ rather than ‘talk’ – who’s
responsibility/role?
• Alignment with plans and activities
• Reporting structure
• Stick to deadlines!
Bigger Plans and Ideas
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A University Web Strategy/Guide
Wild West Yorkshire
Course Database – adoption of XCRi
Blogs for all!
Video diaries, features and profiles
Research Centres and Academic Bibliographies
online (in conjunction with Bradford Scholars)
• iTunesU
Useful Resources
• Web Team website (in development!!)
• http://www.bradford.ac.uk/the-web-team/
• Web Community web presence – to be
developed
• What else do people want/need?
A huge thank you
• CMS Project – a success
• Great engagement
across campus
• Revived appetite for the
web and its potential
• Just the start!
The CMS in Action
Sarah Ollington (Press Office) and
Claire Cuvier (Hub)
CMS website
Press Office and The HUB
Before CMS
Press Office
• Relied heavily on Web Team
• Press Office had no real
website
• Other Press Office
publications didn’t sit in
same place as each other
• Student Registry updated
the web site
• Web team updated SFIS
• The site had a lot of
outdated information
• Structure based and did not
make much sense to a
student
Putting together
the new sites
Press Office
• Researched other
universities press websites
• Decided on name - Media
Centre
• Asked journalists what they
wanted
• Wrote content
• Audit of the old sites
•Student Registry
•SFIS
• Designed from a student
point of view
• Built a skeletal site
At present
Press Office
• Enabled us to create new
services
• Able to update our own press
releases
• Increased awareness of the
press office for academics
• Simple to use
•Accessible web pages
•Do not have to rely on one
person to update the web
•Easy to use
•Informs students on the
services offered at The Hub
The future
Press Office
• Raise awareness of Media
Centre to academics and
journalists
• Become more creative
• Build upon experts directory
•Create a fully functional FAQ
system
•Help call system for students
and staff
•Encourage more use of the
web
Thank you!
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/mediacentre
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/hub
See you in 15!
The Wider Web Community
Aspects of Online Activities
Training
Jacqui Cuthbert
Research and Knowledge Transfer
Tamsin Holt and Polly Dawes
Bradford Scholars
The University of Bradford online research archive
http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk
Polly Dawes
Systems Librarian
JB Priestley Library
p.j.dawes@bradford.ac.uk
Ext: 3396
In a very small nutshell, an institutional repository is a place on
the web you can put your research stuff in if the copyright
allows it
Possible content
Minimum: bibliographic details
Ideal: digital objects
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Journal articles
Conference papers
Theses (PhD, MPhil)
Working papers
Research reports
Data and Datasets
Books and book chapters
Presentations
Seminar papers
Newsletters
Benefits to researchers
Increased visibility
Higher citation rates and impact
Centrally managed and maintained in perpetuity
http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2647
Increased workload?
• Enter once – use many times
→ Departmental annual reviews
→ Forthcoming REF
→ CVs
→ Web page feeds
→ Permanent IDs for each paper
Some sticks?
Funding Bodies and open access
• All UK funding bodies
AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, STFC
• European Union
European Commission and European Research Council (ERC)
Juliet: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php
Available now!
• Search and view full text and citations on the
web
• Register and contribute your papers
• Refer colleagues to your papers
• Interact with Blackboard, Metalib and
forthcoming CMS
Coming soon…
• Statistics – top downloaded papers
• REF data
• Web page feeds
Credits
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duststorm/187826783/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/2178443917/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tessawatson/427116107/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrec/2634254661/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clevercupcakes/2392633407/
http://www.wordle.net
The Mobile Web
John Fairhall
Learning and Teaching
Maureen Readle
Technology Enhanced Learning @ TQEG
The web for ….
Learning
and Teaching
Learning & Teaching through ...
One Way Communication
• Email
• Podcasts
• Video
• Blogs
• RSS feeds
Learning & Teaching through ...
Two-Way Communication
• Discussion Groups
• Instant messaging
• Social Networks
• Virtual Classrooms
Learning & Teaching through ...
Collaboration and Group work
• Wikis & Blogs
• ePortfolios
• Second Life
Learning & Teaching through ...
On-Line Assessment
• Formative and Summative Tests
• Electronic submission
• Audio / video feedback
Learning & Teaching through ...
Research and Project Websites
• ADEPT
– Academic Development to Enhance Professional Teaching
• LearnHigher
• PASS
– Programme Assessment StrategieS
• ASEL
– Audio Supported Enhanced Learning
• Out-duction: Improving the final year experience
Learning & Teaching through ...
Virtual Learning Environment
• Secure, managed environment
• Repository for …
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Audio feedback
Video clips
Podcasts
Presentations
External links
• Supports …
– Collaboration
– Discussion
– Assessment
• Manages student / staff accounts
Learning & Teaching through...
The Web
• Providing
opportunities to
enhance student
learning.
Support and Infrastructure
Internal Communications
Stefan Ingolfsson
What’s the bottom line?
• 80% of those who understand what
makes the organisation successful want
to contribute to its success
(only 46% of those who don’t
understand)
•91% of those who understand their role in
the organisation will work towards its
success (only 27% of those who don’t
understand)
What is Internal Comms aiming to do?
“public sentiment is everything….. with it
nothing can fail: without it nothing can
succeed”
Abraham Lincoln
How best to hear about the big issues?
From a manager or in a team briefing
Online = integral to internal comms
“Since September 2008 there have
been over 5.1million unique page
views of the intranet home page”
Google Analytics
“Since September 2008 there
were over 3,000 unique page
views per month for ‘staff’ tab”
Google Analytics
Leeds Trinity, Staff homepage
Salford University, staff homepage
Online plans for internal comms
Yesterday, today, tomorrow
print
Web 1.0
Web 2.0
Power of staff blogs
Internal
comms is
powerless to
stop people
damaging
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reputation of
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University
integral part of internal communications
Development plans for internal comms and the web.,,
• Support content submission and news pages;
• Build a better intranet – a place just for staff;
• Content Management System for plasma screens around the University;
• Develop more opportunities for staff to adapt content for web 2.0 ie use of
multimedia and more news updates, stories and images;
• Provide a strong way of capturing feedback for internal comms processes.
Over to you!
Group Exercise
Ideas and Concerns
• 5 minutes on your own
• 1 per post-it
– Arrows = concerns
– Flower = ideas
• In groups – cluster and theme the arrows and
flowers
• Add flowers to arrows if possible!
Feedback and plans
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Group exercise themes
Themes from the survey – thank you!
Future meetings
Smaller User Interest Groups, e.g.
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Accessibility/Legal requirements
Marketing
Web 2.0/Social Media
Systems’ interoperability
Techie stuff!
More thanks!
And then lunch.
Credits (photos)
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarmk/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaredchapman/