IWMC

UKOLN has hosted the Institutional Web Management Workshop every year since 1997, with this year’s event being the tenth in the series. At the workshop a number of participants commented that they felt themselves to be a member of the Institutional Web management community, with the event providing the main focal point for the community, with the web-support and website-info-mgt JISCMail lists providing additional mechanisms for community sharing and collaboration.

The IWMW 2006 event highlighted the importance of Web 2.0 to the community. Since the workshop a range of presentations and events have been held throughout the country . And on 1 November 29006 2006 (my tenth anniversary at UKOLN) this Blog was set up. The Blog has not been announced on mailing list in order to gain experience in Blogging and the time and effort needed to Blog in a sustainable fashion.

However it is now timely for an official launch of the Blog, which has been announced on the web-support JISCMail list. The Blog will cover areas related to the Web, especially areas of interest to our key communities (the higher and further education and cultural heritage sectors, the digital library development and research communities and the institutional Web management community). In order to support the institutional Web management community, a well-established and thriving community of practice , posts on this Blog which are likely to be of interest to the community will be tagged with the ‘IWMC’ tag.

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I would encourage members of the community who are setting up Blogs with similar roles to use the same tag, to help in finding and sharing posts. I would also invite Bloggers from the IWMC community to contact me (using email or by commenting on this posting) with details of their Blog.

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