Archive for the 'IWMW2007' Category

Amazon Web Services

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Jeff Barr of Amazon addressing the IWMW 2007 conference in York
Back in June, at the snappily-titled Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007 conference at the University of York, I attended a presentation by Jeff Barr, who has the enviable job title of Senior Manager, Web Services Evangelism at Amazon.com.
That’s right, Amazon have a Web Services Evangelist. […]

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The real St Andrews

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

There was a comment at the IWMW2007 conference in York last week about how deceptive many photographs on university promotional websites are; for example, they always show deep blue skies with hardly a cloud in sight.
So today I decided to put it to the test.
The frontpage news headline on the BBC News website says “Flood […]

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IWMW2007 Day 2

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Amazon Web Services
Day two kicked off with a fascinating presentation by Jeff Barr, who is the Senior Web Services Evangelist for Amazon. While the presentation wasn’t particularly relevant for the kind of work I do, it was very interesting and did remind me that I want to order the new Danzig album from Amazon when […]

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IWMW2007 Day 1

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Paul Boag and Brian Kelly chatting at IWMW2007.
We arrived safely in York on Sunday evening, though (unlike Scotland) it was disappointingly wet and cold. Our rooms have no WiFi access so, like other parts of this ancient city, it feels in many ways like being transported back to Roman times. But with more electricity. And […]

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Off to IWMW2007

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

York skyline, showing York Minster. (Photo from York Musical Society.)
At lunchtime today I’m heading down to York with one of my colleagues from The University of St Andrews to the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2007 at The University of York.
Assuming that I can get my wireless setup properly there (unlike at the IWMW last […]

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I’m going to IWMW2007 in York

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

York skyline, showing York Minster. (Photo from York Musical Society.)
Well, it’s all booked up now and confirmed: next month (16-18 July) my Web colleague (not Spiderman, the other one) and I are off to York for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007, which this year has the theme of “Next Steps for the Web Management […]

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