Nov 15, 2024, 11am EST

We’re thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for you to make your voice heard as we embark on the ELEVATE initiative—a transformative, multi-year campaign aimed at advancing institutional inclusive excellence across Tufts. Join us to share your thoughts and perspectives as it relates to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and access (DEIJA) at Tufts.

Online Location Details: Zoom
Open to Public: No
Primary Audience(s): Alumni and Friends, Faculty, Parents, Postdoctoral Fellows, Staff, Students (Graduate), Students (Postdoctoral), Students (Undergraduate)
Event Type: Community Engagement
Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence
Event Sponsor Details: Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence (IIE)
Event Contact Email: elevate@tufts.edu
RSVP Information: docs.google.com…
More info: diversity.tufts.edu…

Nov 15, 2024

Guru Nanak's Birthday. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.

Open to Public: Yes
Event Type: Multifaith Observance
Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy

Nov 14, 2024, 6:30pm EST

The Center for Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) invites the Tufts community to join us on November 14 for a poetry reading with Daisy Atterbury and Adrienne Raphael, moderated by Professor Sarah Akant.

Daisy Atterbury is a poet, essayist and scholar. Daisy’s most recent book, The Kármán Line (2024), investigates queer life and fantasies of space and place with an interest in unraveling colonial narratives in the American Southwest.

Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them and the poetry collections Our Dark Academia and What Was It For. She teaches writing at CUNY Baruch and lives in Brooklyn.

All are welcome. Contact humanities@tufts.edu with questions.

Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row
Campus Location: Medford/Somerville campus
City: Somerville, MA 02144
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus
Location Details: Conference Room
Open to Public: Yes
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, Staff, Students (Graduate), Students (Postdoctoral), Students (Undergraduate)
Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: Humanities
Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences
Event Sponsor Details: Tufts University
Event Contact Name: Amanda Pepper
Event Contact Email: amanada.pepper@tufts.edu
Event Contact Phone: 2037639353
RSVP Information: No RSVP needed
Event Admission: Free
More info: humanities.tufts.edu…

Nov 13, 2024, 5pm EST

Yoga with Vito - Let's Move Together

Beginner-Friendly
Join returning Yoga Instructor Vito for a beginner-friendly yoga class for some weekly movement.

November 13th (Wednesday)
Evening Classes 5:00pm

Sign up here

• Each student must sign up ahead of time to secure their spot in class.
• For lunchtime classes, students are asked to indicate whether they would like to reserve a mat.
• For evening classes, mats will not be provided.

Nov 13, 2024, 12pm EST

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) invites you to a special event on November 13 at noon. Professor Cathy Stanton will be sharing insights from her new book, Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer.

In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-­scale ventures struggle to survive, as anthropologist Cathy Stanton discovered when she joined the effort to save a small food co-­op in a former mill town in western Massachusetts. On the margins of the dominant system, Stanton found herself reckoning with its deep racial and class inequities, and learning that making real change requires a fierce commitment to community and a willingness to change herself as well.

Cathy Stanton is an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner working at the intersection of cultural anthropology and public history. Her published work focuses largely on the uses of history, heritage, and culture in redevelopment projects, particularly in former industrial settings. Her research particularly highlights the presence and contributions of knowledge producers and cultural workers within processes of postindustrial transformation.

Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row
Campus Location: Medford/Somerville campus
City: Somerville, MA 02144
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus
Location Details: First floor conference room
Open to Public: Yes
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, Staff, Students (Graduate), Students (Postdoctoral), Students (Undergraduate)
Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: Arts/Media, Politics/Policy/Law, Social Justice/Human Rights
Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences
Event Sponsor Details: Center for Humanities at Tufts
Event Contact Name: Amanda Pepper
Event Contact Email: amanda.pepper@tufts.edu
Event Contact Phone: 2037639353
RSVP Information: No RSVP needed
Event Admission: Free
More info: humanities.tufts.edu…

The Workshop theme name 'Quality Matters' is added to the Web site. [2005-12-22]

Chatbots are software applications designed to provide a conversational speech based interface to Web sites and services. Brian will be able to answer questions on the Workshop and this year's Workshop location, Bath. [2006-05-12]

A Creative Commons licence for IWMW 2006 publicity materials is now available. [2006-05-28]

An experimental Web-based chat service called Gabbly will be available for use during selected sessions at the IWMW 2006 event. [2006-06-03]

At IWMW 2006 as a pilot a number of the plenary talks are being made available over the Web using streaming video. [2006-06-13]

All plenary speaker's presentations are now available from the IWMW 2006 Web site. See relevant abstracts for links. [2006-06-16]

Dec 31, 2024

The university observes a holiday on this day.

Open to Public: Yes
Event Type: University Holiday

Dec 30, 2024

The university observes a holiday on this day.

Open to Public: Yes
Event Type: University Holiday

Dec 27, 2024

The university observes a holiday on this day.

Open to Public: Yes
Event Type: University Holiday

Dec 26, 2024

The university observes a holiday on this day.

Open to Public: Yes
Event Type: University Holiday

Dec 25, 2024

The university observes a holiday on this day.

Open to Public: Yes
Event Type: University Holiday

Nov 29, 2024

The university observes a holiday on this day.

Open to Public: Yes
Event Type: University Holiday

Nov 28, 2024

The university observes a holiday on this day.

Open to Public: Yes
Event Type: University Holiday

Dr Tony McDonald is TLTP officer at the Faculty of Medicine Computing Centre in the Medical School at the University of Newcastle. In this position he has been involved in the development and implementation of the Networked Learning Environment and its deployment at the consortium sites. Whilst developing this system, a lot of additional work was done on XML. Before joining the FMCC, Tony worked at Netskills on the DESIRE project and, further back, was the Macintosh systems advisor at the University of Newcastle Computing Service. His current interests are in website communication (XML-RPC and SOAP) and in 'shipping' the NLE out to as many sites as want it.

Ian Halliday: Instructor, Princeton University 1964-66. Fellow Christ's College, Cambridge 1966-67. Lectureship 1967-75, Reader 75-90, Professor 90-92, Imperial College, University of London. Professor of Physics and Head of Department, University of Wales, Swansea since 1992, Dean of Graduate School 93-96 (on leave of absence). Chief Executive, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council since 1998.

Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a JISC-funded post which provides advice for the UK Higher and Further Education communities on Web developments.

Mary Rowlatt is currently Information Services Manager with Essex Libraries where she is responsible for the development and delivery of information services to the public. In October she will move to a new post as Community Information Network Co-ordinator for the County Council. She is joint editor for the Essex County Council website, Project leader for the LIC funded Seamless project, Project Director for the DGV funded ISTAR project, and Essex Co-ordinator for the DGXIII funded ONE-2 Project. She is a Member of the Interoperability Focus Advisory Group, the European Public Information Centres (EPIC) National Steering Group, and chairs the EARL European Task Group which developed euroguide.

Andy Price has been the Head of Corporate Communications at the University of Teesside for 18 months. He spent two years as Head of New Media at North East Evening Gazette, seven years as a Marketing and Business development consultant. Andy has had a varied career in both the private and public sector and have spent almost half his working life self employed. His main discipline is Marketing, but he has increasingly been involved in developments in new media and digital imaging. He has worked on early on-line 'business to business' developments in the music industry as well as managing a very early international on-line digital photography event in 1995. Subsequently he put local newspapers on-line, created local community portals, put Premiership footballs clubs in cyberspace and created national business databases as well as being directly involved in a wide variety of other on-line initiatives. In the past he has been the managing director of a graphics company, a community development worker, a language teacher in Spain and has helped establish a community circus, so he feels ideally suited to life on the web!

Details of the Exhibition and Poster Display are now available. [2005-04-06]

The Acceptable Use Policy for use of networked applications and mobile devices at the workshop was released. [2005-04-26]

The workshop is fully subscribed. Email events@ukoln.ac.uk is you would like to be added to the waiting list. [2005-05-23]

Further information about the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, where the reception on day 2 of the workshop will take place, is now available. [2005-05-24]

Tom Franklin will be giving a plenary talk on "There Is No Such Thing As A Silver Bullet: CMS And Portals Will Not Solve Your Problems!". This talk is a replacement for the plenary talk by Mike Taylor which was advertised previously. [2005-05-31]

Information on an optional session on impact analysis and evaluation of previous Institutional Web Management Workshops is now available. This session will also enable participants to give suggestions on next year's workshop. Bookings can be made at the workshop - and will be limited to 20 delegates per session.

Further information about the poster displays is now available.

A multimedia presentation of Stephen Emmott's talk on "Customers, Suppliers, and the Need for Partnerships" is now available. The presentation, which is in SMIL format, combines a recording of Stephen's talk with a display of the PowerPoint slides he used. [2005-07-26]

Why is it that so many web projects within public institutions are delivered late and fail to stay within budget? In this session we discuss the challenges faced by institutional Web site managers and look at specific techniques to address issues such as design by committee, scope creep and internal politics. The session was facilitated by Paul Boag.

Tactics tend to dominate the daily routine, limiting the time and space available to consider strategies. This workshop aims to explore the distinction between strategy and tactics to help web professionals identify the ends and manage the means by which they are achieved. The session was facilitated by Stephen Emmott, LSE.

One year on and we are still scratching our heads, trying to work out just what we need a Social Networking Policy to cover, why we need it, and exactly who it needs to protect. Social Networking presents lots of opportunities in the areas of teaching and learning, student recruitment, alumni relations and collaboration, as well as exposing the University to a variety of risks and new challenges. This session will explore the risks and opportunities we are faced with, and will try to establish some of the issues we need to safeguard against. It may even provide some answers for institutions who are still thinking about creating a policy, just starting the process, or those burying their heads in the sand...a bit like some senior management! The session was facilitated by Debbie Nicholson and Keith Brooke University of Essex.

The University of Bradford Web CMS project began in October 2005 and by the time IWMW 2008 happens we will have purchased our Web CMS and have a new University Web Team in place (just!). "Crumbs - that's taken a long time," you may say! Well, yes - but we know that by the end of the project we will have a Web CMS that suits our organisational needs and is welcomed and accepted by the users, as well as a new resource to assist the University of Bradford in taking its Web presence forward - the University Web Team. So how did we do it? Following on from last year's IWMW 2007 session (People, Processes and Projects - How the Culture of an Organisation can Impact on Technical System Implementation) we will give some insight into why we think our project has continued to be successful - detailing the hurdles we met along the way and how we overcame them - and imparting the knowledge that we have learnt during the project which can help you take your organisation with you and enable you to implement a huge change management project successfully. Hint - it's all about the people! The session was facilitated by Claire Gibbons and Russell Allen, University of Bradford.

Web content is increasingly produced by authors without extensive web design skills - whether by staff using CMSs, VLEs and courseware or by students publishing their coursework online. The challenge of making sure this content is as accessible as possible becomes much more significant, and inevitably a burden on the individual or institution. The quality of the authoring tool in supporting accessible content creation becomes critical - however support for the W3C's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) by authoring tool vendors seems to be seen as a specific (and usually low priority) customer request rather than a fundamental quality of the tool. For institutions considering selecting a VLE, CMS or other tool that supports web content publication, how can they best express accessibility requirements so that the tool takes its share of responsibility for accessible output? And if existing tools fall short of ATAG conformance, how can the effect of this on the accessibility of content best be managed? The session was facilitated by David Sloan, University of Dundee.

This session will go on a whistlestop tour of some of the new developments made for the March 2008 relaunch of Edge Hill's corporate Web site. See what a small, centralised Web team can deliver without a 1 million pound CMS! More buzzwords than you can shake a stick at and not afraid to get technical. The session was facilitated by Mike Nolan, Edge Hill University.

During this session there will be an exploration of the use of Web 2.0 technologies in brand based marketing. The session will use the results of the recent collaboration between the University of Southampton and Precedent Communications http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isoton to demonstrate how developing a consistent approach to the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies can be acheived by considering your institution's corporate objectives and audiences. Discussion Groups will consider how the Web 2.0 technologies used in brand based marketing can be applied to their institution. The session was facilitated by James Souttar, Precedent.

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.

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.

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.

Dan Smith, The University of Southampton will use his experience of rolling out a successful Web CMS to help attendees with potential problems.

Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath and Steven Warburton, Kings College London will consider community. Members of institutional Web management teams have helped to develop a sustainable community through use of mailing lists, such as the web-support and website-info-mgt JISCMail lists (which are very successful in sharing tips and receiving advice on problems) and participation at the IWMW series of workshops (which provide an opportunity for members of the community to meet, hear about new trends and best practices and to share concerns).

Scott Wilson, CETIS, Ben Ryan, KaiNao, Manchester Metropolitan University and Vashti Zarach, CETIS will invite attendees to critique the XCRI concept and comment in particular on the challenges and opportunities for implementing XCRI in their own organisations.

Pete Walker, Internet Development Manager, ILRT, University of Bristol and Stuart Church, Pure Usability Twill provide an insight into common pitfalls of Web sites and outline some easy methods to undercover how your site is being perceived and how it can be improved.

David Sloan, Digital Media Access Group, University of Dundee and Simon Ball, Techdis will think about how we promote contextual accessibility as an institutional standard? How can we encourage web authors to use diverse solutions to optimise accessibility, while making sure that basic principles of accessible design are met?

Helen Sargan, University of Cambridge will show that there are several realistic alternatives to using a slide presentation tool such as Powerpoint or similar. she'll give an overview and demo of several Web-based alternatives with the pros and cons of using them, a profile of the constituencies who would benefit, and what skills and support they might need to succeed.

Claire Gibbons, Web Officer (Marketing and Communications), University of Bradford and Russell Allen, Project Manager (Portal and CMS), Management Information Services, University of Bradford will help delegates gain an understanding of 'organisational culture' and the effect this can have on change management and/or system implementation.

In a follow-up to last year's session, User testing on a shoestring budget, Emma Tonkin, UKOLN, demonstrates two methods of user testing. One, the cognitive walkthrough, an be carried out by a single evaluator. The second, the think-aloud protocol, is all about observing the way Web visitors interact with your Web site.

Ross Gardler, OSS Watch, University of Oxford and Andrew Savory, Managing Director, Sourcesense UK will consider what makes a service usable and sustainable? Is it one that offers you a service level agreement (SLA)? Or is it one that has sufficient clients that it is likely to survive long-term? And can a service that is principally a "social" service be sustainable? And how might communities of practice relate to the sustainability of an open service?