Institutional Web Management Workshop 2005: Welcome

Brian Kelly is just welcoming us all to the workshop. Brian is very keen on the use of new technologies for communication and collaboration, and we have an abundance of toys to help us communication. These include this blog, online chat and the ability to annotate the workshop web pages using something called ‘wikalong’.

I’m also interested in this, but wonder if it is a bit ambitious to have them all running at once – my previous experience was that only one or two channels of communication really got used.

Anyway, Brian is now introducing the workshop and outlining the them (Whose web is it anyway?)

Brian has just singled me out as the workshop blogger – now the pressure is on!

Brian is just highlighting that all the technologies that are being provided for this workshop are things that students are going to start using – and they can be disruptive.

Also looks like I’ve encountered the first issue with the technology – my mail client doesn’t seem to be able to negotiate the wireless network correctly, so only access to webmail – although this may stop me being too distracted by stuff going on at home base.