Comments on: JISC Conference 2008 http://throughthephases.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/jisc-conference-2008/ Work, Life and Laughter Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:27:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Matt Jukes http://throughthephases.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/jisc-conference-2008/#comment-22 Matt Jukes Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:25:27 +0000 http://throughthephases.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-22 Andy - I think Robert has covered everything in his comment but I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time (especially given the time you wrote it!) to write the post and give the feedback. If you have any other thoughts about the event (or any of the social web stuff in general) feel free to drop me an email mjukes AT gmail DOT com or just aim a tweet at me.. Andy – I think Robert has covered everything in his comment but I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time (especially given the time you wrote it!) to write the post and give the feedback. If you have any other thoughts about the event (or any of the social web stuff in general) feel free to drop me an email mjukes AT gmail DOT com or just aim a tweet at me..

]]> By: andystew http://throughthephases.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/jisc-conference-2008/#comment-21 andystew Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:48:41 +0000 http://throughthephases.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-21 Thanks for taking the time to reply to my ramblings. I think that in itself brings forward the potential and power of this stuff (blogs, twitter etc). You tend to forget how much hard work and stress is involved in organising events but from my point of view it seemed flawless so definitely applaud all involved. Looking forward to next year! Thanks for taking the time to reply to my ramblings. I think that in itself brings forward the potential and power of this stuff (blogs, twitter etc). You tend to forget how much hard work and stress is involved in organising events but from my point of view it seemed flawless so definitely applaud all involved. Looking forward to next year!

]]> By: Robert Haymon-Collins http://throughthephases.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/jisc-conference-2008/#comment-20 Robert Haymon-Collins Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:26:44 +0000 http://throughthephases.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-20 Hi Andy. Thanks for the posting here, and I didn't read it as negative at all. I am pleased that you thought yesterday was well organised (Grace Porter please stand forward - amongst others) and support the bits of new technology that we introduced (ditto for Matt Jukes and Hector Peebles). I take your point about promoting the social media stuff more widely and it was a judgment we made about trying not to 'big it up' too much this first year but to try it out and see how it went - it is all quite new for us in this context and we didn't want to over-promise. In the event the streaming went pretty well (apparently about 80 and 70 per session), the Twittering seemed to be embraced by quite a few mad types, the social network site faired pretty well ( about 300 of the 700 delegates I think), a fair bit of blogging etec etc - anyhow a sure we'll put out more considered review once the aggregator stuff has been crawled over. we'll try and learn from this year to make it a more considered offer a the event in Edinburgh next year ( and no doubt at other events up and coming across the year) Robert Hi Andy.

Thanks for the posting here, and I didn’t read it as negative at all. I am pleased that you thought yesterday was well organised (Grace Porter please stand forward – amongst others) and support the bits of new technology that we introduced (ditto for Matt Jukes and Hector Peebles). I take your point about promoting the social media stuff more widely and it was a judgment we made about trying not to ‘big it up’ too much this first year but to try it out and see how it went – it is all quite new for us in this context and we didn’t want to over-promise. In the event the streaming went pretty well (apparently about 80 and 70 per session), the Twittering seemed to be embraced by quite a few mad types, the social network site faired pretty well ( about 300 of the 700 delegates I think), a fair bit of blogging etec etc – anyhow a sure we’ll put out more considered review once the aggregator stuff has been crawled over. we’ll try and learn from this year to make it a more considered offer a the event in Edinburgh next year ( and no doubt at other events up and coming across the year)

Robert

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