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Welcome to the UK Web Focus Blog

by Brian Kelly | Nov 1, 2006 | General | 3 comments Welcome to the UK Web Focus Blog. As my tenth anniversary as UK Web Fo

I've a Blog - What Next?

On-the-fly use of networks at events

by Brian Kelly | Nov 6, 2006 | Accessibility , Events At the “Accessibility Summit II” meeting one of the invited part

LibraryThing

Michael Webb has recently posted an article on LibraryThing . I have also recently signed u

Slideshare.net - a repository for slides

Blogs published by IT Service Departments

I’ve added to my Blogroll links to two Blogs published by senior

Blog statistics - 2006-11-11

statistics – 2006-11-11 by Brian Kelly | Nov 12, 2006 | Blog |

Vonage V-Phone - phone on a stick

Blogs - suitable for reports?

Web 2.0: How Should IT Services and the Library Respond?

by Brian Kelly | Nov 12, 2006 | Events , Web2.0 |

Star Gazing Conference 2006

by Brian Kelly | Nov 26, 2006 | Blog , Events , IWMC |

Exploiting Networked Applications At Events

by Brian Kelly | Nov 27, 2006 | Events , Web2.0 |

Being Blogged At An Event

On Friday 1st December 2006 I gave a talk on “ Web 2.0: An Introduction

IWMC

UKOLN has hosted the Institutional Web Management Workshop every year since 1997, with this year’s e

PING PONG

I recently attended a joint JISC/UKOLN/CETIS awayday meeting. One of the issues which arose

Reflections on 2006 - Events

Reflections On 2006 - IWMW 2006

Christmas Quiz - An Answer

Reflections On 2006 - Accessibility

Reflections On 2006 - Standards

Blog Tag: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Brian Kelly

Tag: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Brian Kelly by Brian Kelly | Dec 20, 2006 | General |

It's About Giving, Not Taking

The Trouble With Wikis

UKOLN hosted a workshop on “ Exploring The Potential Of Wikis ” in Birmi

Christmas Quiz II - An Answer

Blog of the Day

by Brian Kelly | Dec 27, 2006 | Blog , General It was nice to see that this Blog was featured as the number 1 in WordPress’s list of Blogs

Phong - it's awful, isn't it?

New look-and-feel for 2007

I’d changed the WordPress theme to Andreas09 – which provides a 3-co

Other Blogs By JISC Services

Following my recent comments on the TASI Lightbox blog I noticed an incoming

Writing Conventions For This Blog

Is this a Blog or a blog? Am I Blogging or blogging? And is the question

IWMW 2007 - Call for Proposals

Blogs - Theme Of The Week

Why WordPress?

A while ago Roddy MacLeod asked me why I’d chosen the WordPress to host my blog. After hav

RSS Readers Used To View This Blog

I commented recently that this blog had received 4,000 visits since it

MyBlogLog

I recently added this blog to the MyBlogLog service. From my personalised MyBlogLog page I can

Comment Spam Sent To This Blog

The WordPress.com com blogger service has an automated filter for spam sen

What Can We Learn From Facebook?

Background Before Christmas I received an email from someone wa

Windows LiveWriter

There was a recent posting on the JISC Involve Blog which commented favourably on the

SiteMeter Added To Blog

Something I should have done when I launched this blog was to add a stats counter.

Song Of The Week To Accompany The Blog Theme

A Team Or An Individual's Blog?

Meebo - A Follow-Up

Theme of the Week: Evaluation of Blogs

by Brian Kelly | Jan 29, 2007 | Blog This week I thought I’d give some thoughts on the evaluation of the effectivene

Experiments With Meebo

I mentioned previously that I’d installed the Meebo sidebar widget in order to exp

Third Party or Institutional Provision of Blogs?

Scott Wilson (a blogging pioneer at CETIS) reviewed his

Policies For This Blog

I suggested recently that there’s a need to define the role(s) of a blog if any me

UK Library Bloggers and ILI 2007

It has been very pleasing to see the flurry of interest in my posting on

Blog Experiments

by Brian Kelly | Feb 2, 2007 | Blog The policy for this blog describes how the blog will be used to carry out various experiments. Such ex

A Meta-Policy For Institutional Blogs

I recently published my Policies For This Blog . The comments I recei

Blogs or Email for Discussions?

I recently sent an email about a bug in the Feed Validator sof

Finding Out About OpenID

by Brian Kelly | Feb 12, 2007 | Web2.0 There has been a lot of discussion recently about OpenID. It’s clear that this is an area I

RSS And The Hero Portal

I recently received a copy of “Hero Headlines” which contains news from Hero Ltd,

Viral Marketing: From Store Wars To Web 2.0

The Store Wars Video I was told about the Store Wars video

Tweaks to Blog Sidebar Widgets

I have previously described use of the Meebo sidebar widget. Although I rep

Email Subscription Service For This Blog

Roddy MacLeod recently pointed out the difficulties end us

Outlook 2007 - A User-Friendly Interface To RSS?

UK Universities On MySpace

Andy Powell alerted me to Warwick University’s presence on MySpace . Is thi

A Blog Plugins Used Page Would Be Useful

I recently came across the Net 2.0 blog (through the recently la

Green IT: Meeting the Environmental Challenge

by Brian Kelly | Feb 26, 2007 | Events UCISA have just announced that bookings are now open for the Managers

Web 2.0: What Can It Offer the Research Community?

by Brian Kelly | Feb 27, 2007 | Events |

Instant Messaging Interface To Applications

Back in the days when WAP was exciting (hmm, did I really w

The Web: From Childhood to Early Adolescence

We are now seeing the Web developing from its childhood to

Dapper - Web Mashup Development For All?

IT Services Reinventing Themselves

I gave a talk on IT Services: Help Or Hindrance? at the UCISA Manage

Slideshare Repository and PDFs

by Brian Kelly | Mar 28, 2007 | Repositories , Web2.0 |

Snap Preview Facility

A WordPress feature which is enabled by default is the preview of the destination o

Museums and the Web 2007 Conference: Day 3

by Brian Kelly | Apr 16, 2007 | Events , mw2007 |

Benefits Of Uploading Your Image To Technorati

How do you ensure that your blog stands out in a page of se

Enhancements to Dapper

by Brian Kelly | May 23, 2007 | Web2.0 I noticed recently that Tom Roper had spotted my posting about Blotter and has announced that

Universities, Not Facebook, May Be Facing Collapse

When I wrote my post on Facebook WILL Die I never exp

Predicting The Twitter Backlash

I recently described Twitter and my initial experiments with it. I the

Museums and the Web 2008 Conference

by Brian Kelly | Apr 7, 2008 | Events It was over 19 months ago when Jennifer Trant invited me to join the programme co

Lies, Dammed Lies, Blog Statistics and Unexpected Spikes

by Brian Kelly | Nov 25, 2008 | Blog There was some discussion a while ago on standards for usage

Not Your Father’s IT Innovation!

Yesterday a leader column in The Guardian suggested that the current g

The Network Effect Is Missing From The Standards Debate

by Brian Kelly | Jul 15, 2009 | standards |

“From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability” Paper Published

by Brian Kelly | Jul 17, 2009 | Accessibility I’m pleased to report that a paper on From Web A

“From Web Accessibility To Web Adaptability” Talk at Techshare 2009

by Brian Kelly | Sep 2, 2009 | Accessibility A proposal for a talk I submitted to the R

Investigation into Challenges, Application and Benefits of Social Media in UK HEIs

by Brian Kelly | Feb 9, 2010 | Web2.0 A New Report A new report on “ An

Microsoft “Wilfully Infringed i4i’s Patent”

Last year i4i won an injunction preventing Microsoft from

Linked Data and Lessons From the Past

The Buzz at WWW 2010 I’m current in Raleigh, North Carolina

Experiments With RDFa

The Context In a recent post I outlined some thoughts on Microformats and RDFa

Geo-locating Your Event Tweets

by Brian Kelly | Jul 6, 2010 | Twitter A recent article in the Metro (published on 30 June 2010) described “London’s Twitter

DBPedia and the Relationships Between Technical Articles

by Brian Kelly | Sep 14, 2010 | Linked Data , standards Wikipedia is Popular! I recently wrote a b

How Can We Assess the Impact and ROI of Contributions to Wikipedia?

by Brian Kelly | Sep 27, 2010 | Web2.0 , Wikipedia |

A Pilot Survey of the Numbers of Full-Text Items in Institutional Repositories

by Brian Kelly | Jun 6, 2011 | Evidence , Repositories |

Don’t Go To #ThatLondon in 2012!

by Brian Kelly | Jul 9, 2011 | General , Twitter |

Openness and Open Folk Culture

Open Content in Higher Education I have been involved in promoting open

Things We Can Learn From Facebook

Are you pleased, angry or indifferent to Facebook developments (pho

Are University Web Sites in Decline?

by Brian Kelly | Oct 20, 2011 | Evidence , IWMC |

“It Ain’t What You Do, It’s The Fact That You Did It”

by Brian Kelly | Jan 2, 2012 | Social Web |

Terms and Conditions for Online Services

by Brian Kelly | Apr 27, 2012 | Legal As described in the post on Have You Got Your Free Google Drive, Skydrive &

Profiling Use of Third-Party Research Repository Services

by Brian Kelly | Feb 12, 2013 | openness , Repositories Background How significant is use of thir

October 2017

IWMW 2018 to be held at the University of York on 11-13 July 2018 by Brian Kelly | Oct 25, 2017 | Events The IWMW 2018 event will be held at the University

Subverting Copyright (and Other Flawed Legislation)

Be Informed: Recent Changes to Copyright Law Last wee

Should We Boycott Academia.edu?

by Brian Kelly | Dec 9, 2015 | Evidence , Repositories |

Revisiting Event Amplification

by Brian Kelly | Oct 14, 2018 | Events “Amplifying Your Event: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How” At next week’s ILI confe

Publications

Brian Kelly has published a wide range of papers and articles related to his work as a web professional. Access to the papers are available fr