It’s been a busy month at UWP’s Website Support Clinic, with every Tuesday afternoon booked up with drop-ins.

Some colleagues may have heard about a recent threat to Drupal 7 security. We have been advised by our technical development colleagues that they have taken all necessary measures and there is no threat to our position here at Edinburgh. Great work, as ever from our IS colleagues.

I was very pleased to host a meeting of web managers from universities across Scotland and the north east of England here in the wonderful Moray House on 12 November 2014.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks with the EdWeb project lately so I just wanted to draw your attention to the most recent communications we’ve issue to keep you updated with progress on the project.

I attended an interesting conference just recently, organised by Universities UK. Entitled “Using Digital innovation to enhance university marketing and communications”, the slides can be accessed via the link at the foot of this blog post.

On 23 October, I attended a workshop session intended to introduce ideas for generating video subtitles, in order to enhance the availability and accessibility of our video training.

This month’s Web Publishing Community session included updates on the implementation of Google’s Universal Analytics, improvements to the University website search and progress update on the EdWeb CMS. For me however, it was the case study on Optimal Workshop’s online tools, highlighting two online products that can help web editors to structure and label their […]

I provide a brief update for each Knowledge Strategy Committee meeting. The last one was on 31 October. The overview is below. I shall share any feedback as and when it comes in.

I presented yesterday on my recent work to identify what University staff would like us to prioritise as we begin to look at enhancing the website search tool. In this post, I’ll cover how and why I did it, and what the Website Programme will be doing with what I discovered.

Every month at our web publishing community session we give an update of where we are at with the project to build our new Drupal based CMS – EdWeb. We took the opportunity to thank everyone for their continued help and support. And this month we even included a comprehensive live and exclusive tour of […]