http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/ Details of the Speakers at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004 en http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#kelly http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian has been chair of the programme committee for the Institutional Web Management Workshop series since he established the event in 1997. Brian's interests include Web standards, technical architectures for Web services and innovative Web developments. Brian is chair of the Programme Committee and a member of the Organising Committee. Brian gave a plenary talk on Life After Email: Strategies For Collaboration in the 21st Century, contributing with Lawrie Phipps to the talk on Beyond Web Accessibility: Providing A Holistic User Experience, and co-facilitated a workshop session on QA For Web sites - What Goes Wrong And How Can We Prevent It? with Amanda Closier. 51.366074 -2.329445 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#supple http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#supple David Supple is manager of the Corporate Web team at the University of Birmingham and manager of the University's Institutional Portal Project. His teams remit is the development of the site to facilitate the e-business and e-learning aims of the institution, and the delivery of a Web-enabled organisational vision. In real terms this means the re-corporatization of the University Web site, through a focussed Web strategy, common infrastructures and templates, centralised hardware, adequate support and a customer focussed internal sales process to help convince users to migrate back to the centre. The Web Team uses mostly Microsoft products (a challenge in itself), with occasional forays into MySQL and Unix just to keep us sane. Over the coming year, David's focus will be on developing a major portal environment for the University, something that has been in planning for almost 2 years now, and he is keen to engage with the HE community on this new type of development to help maximise the potential of this technology. David is also interested in Web strategy in general and the development of organisational structures and processes as they respond to a more electronic view of the world. David Supple gave a plenary talk on Trials, Trips and Tribulations of an Integrated Web Strategy. 52.452505 -1.928573 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#fraser-krauss http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#fraser-krauss Heidi Fraser-Krauss is the Director of Business Improvements (BI) at the University of St Andrews. BI is a relatively new Unit which combines the traditional MIS function with project management and process analysis/re engineering expertise. Heidi has a background in management and has worked on a number of research projects aimed at improving communication and business processes in manufacturing companies. Before she took up her current post she was part of the team who introduced e-business to the University of St Andrews. Heidi gave a plenary talk on E-business: Why Join In? and co-facilitated a workshop session on From Swipe Card Machine to the Computer Screen both jointly with Ester Ruskuc. 56.33876 -2.816234 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#ruskuc http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#ruskuc Ester Ruskuc is a Project Manager in Business Improvements of the University of St Andrews. Ester has a background in IT and a wide ranging experience of many aspects of higher education administration, information flow, data management and administrative systems. She is involved, and has a keen interest in, the management of IT related projects, business process re-engineering and change management. Ester gave a plenary talk with Heidi Fraser-Krauss and co-facilitated a workshop session with Heidi Fraser-Krauss on From Swipe Card Machine to the Computer Screen. 56.33876 -2.816234 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#brown http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#brown Tony Brown is a Web developer at PPARC (the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council), where he responsible for the development, hosting and running of Web, Intranet and Extranet applications. He has grappled with computers since 1987, starting on mainframes moving through client server to Web-based applications. For the last ten years he has specialised in information retrieval and display, and, for reasons he still can't work out, content management. For purely pragmatic reasons he has sold his soul to Microsoft, and has an ongoing love/hate relationship with .NET. Tony gave a plenary talk jointly with Matt Thrower on Socrates: Building an Intranet for the UK Research Councils. 51.569014 -1.774464 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#thrower http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#thrower Matt Thrower has been a web developer at PPARC since 2001 and has still not left. He originally learnt to program on a ZX Spectrum, then forgot all about computers and went and worked in a laboratory. Eventually, he was saved by the increased popularity of the World Wide Web since that looked a lot more fun that E.Coli. Matt will eulogise for hours about the FileSystem object, and is still cross at Microsoft for leaving it out of dotNET. Matt wgave a plenary talk jointly with Tony Brown on Socrates: Building an Intranet for the UK Research Councils. 51.569014 -1.774464 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#bulley http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#bulley Stephen Bulley is Head of MIS at the London School of Economics and Political Science. MIS is part of the Business Systems & Services Division, which also includes Web Services, Telecoms, Timetables, Conferences & Events and provides IT support to the School's administrative departments. Stephen runs the front line and application support teams for BSS, as well as the Oracle and Unix/Linux systems team. He has worked in IT since 1991 and as an MIS Manager since 1997 from a background as an Oracle DBA; first in FE at South East Essex College and then at the LSE. He has been involved from the start with the LSE for You student & staff portal and recently led an evaluation for a portal product to help take this project to the next stage. Stephen gave a plenary talk on LSE for You: From Innovation to Realism and Beyond. 51.517329 -0.116708 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#rahtz http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#rahtz Sebastian Rahtz is normally Information Manager for Oxford University Computing Services, but is currently seconded part-time to manage the JISC Open Source Advisory Service (OSS Watch). As this role lets him play with open source software a lot, and reject MS Word attachments with a clear conscience, he is having fun. Sebastian also serves as a member of the Board of Directors, and Technical Council, of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) and recommends TEI markup to anyone who stays around long enough to listen. Sebastian gave a plenary talk on Beyond Free Beer: Is Using Open Source A Matter Of Choosing Software or Joining A Political Movement? and co-facilitated a workshop session on Being Open Source with Randy Metcalfe. Sebastian can be contacted at sebastian.rahtz AT computing-services 51.755329 -1.261454 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#hartland http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#hartland Dave Hartland is the manager of Netskills, a national training and staff development service based at Newcastle University and partly funded by the JISC. Netskills provides approximately 400 workshops per year primarily to the Higher and Further education and public library sectors in Internet technologies, Web service management, e-learning and information skills. The training materials developed for these workshops are made available via a licence system to universities and colleges. Netskills also runs accredited Professional Development Certificates in conjunction with the workshop programme. David is a member of the UCISA Staff development Group and the BIOME (Health and Life Sciences Information Gateway) Steering Group. He has run workshops and training courses for the Internet Society's developing countries programme and was for 5 years the chair of the Information Systems and User Services Working Group for TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Network Association) Dave gave a plenary talk on Strategic Staff Development for the Web-enabled Organisation. 54.98281 -1.61396 2004-07-29 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#phipps http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#phipps Lawrie Phipps is the TechDis Senior Advisor for Higher Education. His background is in staff development and e-learning, designing and developing virtual field trips and courses and supporting science lecturers in learning and teaching. Lawrie is also a Visiting Fellow at the Special Needs Computing Research Unit at the University of Teesside. The research group is looking at a range of issues including disability and mobile learning, the use of multimedia to support disabilities, computer assisted assessment and the development of Virtual Learning Environments to support students with learning difficulties. 53.9575 -1.071339 2004-07-28