http://events.jiscinvolve.org News, Event blogs, Presentations, Comments, Discussion Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:10:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Collaboration increasingly lies at the heart of successful research. To help develop new collaborations, the Collaborations Workshop will bring together researchers, funding body representatives and technology experts in Edinburgh on 10-11 March 2010. This expertise, combined with the workshop's novel structure, will create the perfect opportunity to meet researchers with ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/turning-your-research-ideas-into-reality-10-11-march-2010-edinburgh/ JISC is putting the spotlight on the education community in a blog competition, with the chance to win a flip camera and inclusion in a JISC publication. As part of the JISC Conference 2010, JISC is asking teachers, learners and researchers to share their experiences of technology around the event theme: ‘technology ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2010-blog-competition-launches/ The JISC Joint Innovation Forum is taking place on 28 and 29 July at Royal Holloway, University of London. The conference tag will be #jif10. http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-joint-innovation-forum-2010/ Date: Tuesday 17 November Venue: Priorslee Hall, Telford Campus, University of Wolverhampton, Shifnal Road, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 9NT Website This JISC-sponsored roadshow, for researchers and those providing IT support services, will introduce the concept of e-research and some of the tools, along with case studies from practitioners in various disciplines. Many academics engage ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/eresearch-what-is-it-and-how-can-it-help-me/ We are delighted to announce that sponsorship and exhibition bookings are now open for the JISC Conference 2010. The conference will be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London on 12-13 April 2010. For the past 7 years the JISC annual conference has been bringing expertise and ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2010-sponsorship-and-exhibition-bookings-open/ Title:                      SSG Liaising with researchers Date:                     Wednesday 20 January 2010 Venue:                   Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester Booking deadline:     Friday 8 January 2010 Cost:                      UCISA Members - £105       Non-Members - £165 Book Online Many institutions are already developing, or are looking to develop, a liaison or relationship management strategy ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-sponsored-ucisa-event-liaising-with-researchers/ The JISC Conference 2010 is taking place on 12-13 April 2010, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Make sure you have the date saved in your diary! The main conference will open with a drinks reception on the evening of the 12 April, with a full programme on the 13 ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2010-save-the-date/ Building partnerships for success - the CBI Higher Education Summit The launch of the CBI Higher Education Task Force report 'Stronger Together – Businesses and Universities in Turbulent Times '  made a big impact in the media, and raised awareness of the importance of strong ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/cbi-higher-education-summit/ Delicious feeds of tagged blog posts, website news feeds etc, all relating to events organisation on subjects such as green events how to make sessions more interactive how to use Twitter at an event pre-event community building and  much much more, can now be viewed here on the JISC events blog. The tags being used are: jisceventsresourcesgeneral ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/delicious-feeds/ The new JISC Access and Identity Management Programme call has been released: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/08/0809aim.aspx. The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12 noon GMT on Monday 19th October 2009. The JISC is holding a community briefing event where potential bidders will be given information about the ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-access-identity-management-programme-call/ JISC has funded 14 Workshops and Seminars exploring some of the achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content.  Covering a wide range of challenging and cutting-edge developments within digitisation these workshops address questions as diverse as visualising climate change data to digital performance, and issues around robot digitisation technology to ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/achievements-and-challenges-of-digitisation-and-e-content/ 7th - 11th September 2009 Cosener's House Oxfordshire Working with a number of UK and international partners the Training, Outreach and Education Group at the  National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh has delivered a number of Summer School programmes globally in the past 5 years. In conjunction with the National Grid Service (NGS) this ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/advanced-distributed-services-summer-school-2009/ A cross-sector event to help organisations learn from the experiences of others The UK Access Management Federation is pleased to announce that it will be running a federated access event on 14th October 2009 at the ICO in London. The event will focus on a number of ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/uk-federation-in-practice/ JISC is a confirmed Event Partner of the 7th international ePortfolio 2009 Conference taking place in London as part of the Learning Forum London from 22-24 June 2009. The conference aims to explore the progress made towards the goal set in 2003 in Poitiers, that by 2010 every citizen should have ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-sponsoring-eportfolio-2009/ JISC’s publication Effective Practice with e-Portfolios’ is the inspiration for a two day conference, entitled 'Telling e-portfolio stories: e-portfolio-based learning', at the University of Wolverhampton in June 2009. The conference aims to explore the use of e-portfolios from different perspectives including the learner, practitioner, institutional and lifelong learner. Julie Hughes, Principal Lecturer ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jiscs-eportfolio-work-inspiration-for-conference/ Nottingham Conferences has signed up to the 2012 UK Event Industry Fair Pricing and Practice Charter. The organisation, which represents the University of Nottingham's entire conference and events portfolio, is the first UK academic venue to sign the charter, which has been created to encourage fair, reasonable pricing during the 2012 ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/first-academic-venue-signs-2012-fair-pricing-charter/ Edinburgh Event: 9 June, e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh London Event: 18 June, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place What do researchers want from ICT? The JISC-funded Community Engagement projects set out to answer this question. Aimed paticularly at research computing services, IT directors and others planning research computing provision, ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/ In March 2008, the University of Oxford hosted the 'Towards Low Carbon ICT' conference to stimulate discussion on the practical measures that can be taken to build ICT services that both reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and mitigate the effects that higher energy prices will have on our institutions. Much happened over ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/keeping-it-clean/ After a ten-minute delay, Vincent Gillespie welcomed the fashionably late delegates to the afternoon's conference, What is the library of the future?  Not only are there attendees present at the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre in Oxford, but also in Second Life; and coverage of the day is available via this ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/libraries-of-the-future-session-1/ A debate to raise the current issues facing librarians and data management professionals is being organised by JISC, bringing together an international expert panel to speak at the University of Oxford’s iconic Bodleian Library on 2 April 2009. This event at the Bodleian – the University of Oxford’s ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/join-the-debate-what-is-the-library-of-the-future/ Like me, more and more people are using social networking and blogs to communicate with each other as a matter of routine, and it has been great to see the work that JISC is doing to capture that enthusiasm for technology and bring it into teaching, learning and ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/guest-post-from-david-lammy-mp/ Ewan McIntosh, the digital commissioner for 4iP, brought the conference to a close with a challenging and inventive keynote speech about new ways to use emerging interactive technologies in education and how to harness the educational potential of the internet rather than live in dread of it. Incorporating tweets and suggestions ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/closing-keynote-speech-ewan-mcintosh/ The internet is like the weather. It changes constantly  - and unless it's properly archived, each old day in web history is lost forever. But archiving such an ever changing, ever growing, ever-renewing and ever-disappearing universe is a huge and difficult task. Our speakers today helped guide us over some ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/session-who-should-preserve-the-web/ The panel: The student’s perspective: Sue Beck, Student, University of Northampton The lecturer’s perspective: Rob Howe, Head of Learning Technology & Media, University of Northampton The senior manager’s perspective: Professor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Management, Chief Information Officer, Edinburgh University The policy perspective: Sir David Melville, former VC of the University of Kent ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-question-time-student-experiences-of-technology/ Netskills wants your help with its Web2practice guides. The guides are aimed at new users who are thinking about using Web 2.0 tools and, says Steve Boneham of Netskills, they will be partly based on other people's experience and practice with things like blogging, podcasting, social media and RSS. Netskills are ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/demo-web2practice/ Malcolm closed the conference by saying thank you to all the speakers, breakout session leaders and the 780 people who attended. He asked that everyone fill in the online evaluation form, and said that comments would affect what happened at next year's conference. The JISC 2010 conference will be held on ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/thank-you-and-close-dr-malcolm-read/ There's nothing like handing out free gadgets to warm up a crowd - and the nifty pens with hidden USB drives from Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) certainly set the mood for this session about electronic data. Owen Stephens from Imperial College chaired the session, beginning with an introduction about how ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/session-moving-from-print-to-digital-e-theses-highlight-the-issues/ It's the end of the day and most people are keen to get away, but I manage to find someone who has time to chat about their experiences today: self-confessed 'local boy' Mike Jackson from EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. Mike was here today to give a demonstration of LAQUAT, ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/interview-delegate-mike-jackson/ During the afternoon coffee break, I spoke to Keith, a lecturer in higher education, running an MSc in blended learning for those who want to learn about technology and use it in their own teaching. "I was looking for maybe some ideas and an opportunity to look around the stalls and ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/delegate-interview-keith-smyth-napier-university/ As everyone piled into the exhibitor hall to get their afternoon coffee jag, I spoke to Karen Lawson to find out what she thought of the day so far. "I'm a teacher fellow of the college, so I've got responsibility for developing teaching and learning and the use of technology in ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/delegate-interview-karen-lawson-stevenson-college-edinburgh/ Some beautiful fractals were on display at demo stand 4, courtesy of Dr Jano van Hemert and Rapid. Rapid is a new system from the National e-Science Centre at the University of Edinburgh that can quickly create a portal, or user interface, that links together high performance computing facilities. If you're ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/demo-stand-building-portals-for-computational-chemistry-rapid/ Jitan Bhagat from the University of Manchester valiantly battled to be heard above the clatter of forks and plates in the main hall at lunchtime in order to demonstrate My Experiment. It's a social, virtual research environment that allows users to find, use and share research objects in the form of ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/demo-stand-myexperiment/ It was a packed-out house in Harris Room 2 for this session about how researchers use ICT and what their requirements are, comprising three speakers. Gabriel Hanganu talked about the eIUS project (e-infrastructure use cases and service usage models).  The main objective is to understand the e-infrastructure services currently available in ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/session-what-do-researchers-want-from-ict/ “There's a guy from UHI who has got a book on Amazon” No, not the latest rhyming couplet, but an example of how personal information can be mangled. What started out as a 140-character message (“I'm Alun Hughes, based at UHI Executive Office in Inverness. I sell the books I don't ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/session-as-you-like-identity/ "We offer training for education professionals, in schools, colleges and universities, showing them how to use technology in their teaching.  There are a variety of modules you can choose from, according to your interests - for example, if games are your thing, you can choose 'Games and Edutainment'.  When you ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/exhibitor-margaret-wallace-academic-director-epict/ Exhibitor stand:  Cromdale Hall: ProQuest: LION Among the branded pens, pencils and packs of Post-it notes the exhibitors in the Cromdale Hall scatter liberally around their tables in a bid to attract the passing delegate, there are usually also some tempting bowls of sweeties. In contrast, the ProQuest stand has a ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/exhibitor-proquest/ Do Coyle is Professor of Learning Innovation at the University of Aberdeen and, when I caught up with her in the foyer just before lunch, she was still enthusing about Lizbeth Goodman's keynote speech. "I really enjoyed the keynote this morning because it was slightly out of my normal range and, ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/delegate-interview-do-coyle/ With over 700 delegates attending, The 2009 JISC conference is unquestionably a fantastic networking opportunity. But the sheer number of people and the tight schedule also means that it can be difficult to find a good time or place to network, which is why the conference has a dedicated networking ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/networking-report/ In the coffee break this morning, I caught up with Lesly Huxley, director of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) at the University of Bristol, and JISC liaison point for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. I asked her what she'd enjoyed most so far, and it turned out ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/delegate-interview-lesly-huxley/ I interrupted Karen Clegg from Teeside University as she walked through the foyer and asked her what she'd been enjoying at the conference so far today. She told me that since her interest is in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems for employer engagement she'd been keen to go to the demonstration ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/delegate-interview-karen-clegg/ Demo Stand 2 11:10 am Andy Ramsden from the University of Bath just gave a fascinating demonstration about the emerging technology of QR codes. QR codes (see above) are similar to printed bardcodes, but you don't have to use a specialised scanning device to access them, just a a mobile phone camera. Andy ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/demo-stand-learning-on-the-move-using-qr-codes/ For Alex Hawker from the JISC e-Framework Community Engagement Team (CET), today's conference is the perfect opportunity for his team to help people experiencing issues with the e-Framework. "A number of the people here today are either involved in existing JISC-funded projects or they hope to be involved in future projects," ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-stand-e-framework-surgery/ Lizbeth Goodman, the professor of creative tech innovation at the University of East London, gave the keynote address representing two organisations - FutureLab UK and SmartLab, which she set up 16 years ago.  Her intention was to show why they and other organisations could work together in partnership creatively and ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/opening-keynote-speech-lizbeth-goodman/ JISC has a crucial role to play in helping the economy through the current recession, and supporting it in its recovery afterwards, said Tim O'Shea, the chair of JISC in his opening speech to delegates here in Edinburgh. The current economic situation featured as one of the key challenges Professor O'Shea ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/opening-speech-tim-oshea/ First up on the JISC stand is Jos Boys, with JISC's very first e-book. The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education was published last year, and is now available to download as an e-book (www.jisc.ac.uk/erevolutionbook). The book, which is edited by Jos and Peter Ford, looks at what is meant by e-business, ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-stand-the-e-revolution-and-post-compulsory-education/ It's early morning. The student is late for his first lecture. He jumps out of bed, battles through traffic, races up to the lecture hall... and then sees a notice pinned to the door that the lecture has been postponed for two hours. Is there a better way for universities ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/demo-stand-better-communications-with-students/ First things first - SWORD stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit, and it's a JISC-funded protocol for taking content from one place and putting it somewhere else. The idea behind it is to provide a standardised tool for depositing content, and allowing similar functionality across sites and repositories - ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/demo-stand-lightweight-content-depositing-sword/ Exhibitor stand:  Cromdale Hall: The British Universities Film and Video Council: BOB One of the first stands you will see if you look to your right upon entering the basement level Cromdale Hall is run by the British Universities Film and Video Council. The main point of interest on the BUFVC stand ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/exhibitor-bob/ Expert panel: Rashik Parmar, CTO & Distinguished Engineer, IBM Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President & Chief Strategist, OCLC Professor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Management, Chief Information Officer, University of Edinburgh Juliet Williams, Chairman, South West Regional Development Agency Collaboration will be the key to guiding higher education institutions through the current turbulent times and into ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/higher-education-in-a-global-economy-collaborate-out-of-the-credit-crunch/ Please go to the JISC Conference 2009 homepage to view the live streaming from the conference, starting at 4:15pm: Question Time - Students' Experiences of Technology http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/03/jiscconference09.aspx #jisc09 http://events.jiscinvolve.org/live-streaming-from-the-jisc-conference/ The JISC Conference 2009 is now less than a week away and we look forward to seeing many of you there. In the meantime, download the latest JISC Conference 2009 podcasts now, featuring interviews with OCLC the conference sponsor and our keynote speakers (tag: #jisc09). For a full list of all ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2009-sponsor-keynote-podcasts/ Registrations for the JISC Conference 2009 closed this morning, as it has now reached full capacity. If you haven't yet registered then don't worry, you can catch the highlights from the day online - some of it live. If you are registered, then we look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh! Don't ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2009-now-full/ Hurry if you haven't yet registered for the JISC Conference 2009 - there are only 20 places left before we close registrations! http://www.jisc.ac.uk/jiscconference09 If you can't come or are too late, don't worry you can always join in the online activities: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/03/jiscconference09/online It won't be the same as actually attending the conference, but you ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-09-only-20-places-left/ Read about all the planned amplification activities around the JISC Conference 2009. With free wifi at the venue, we hope that all delegates will bring their laptop/handheld device and join in. See the full article http://events.jiscinvolve.org/join-in-the-jisc-conference-09-online/ There are still some places let for the FREE pre-conference activities taking place on Monday 23 March, the day before the JISC Conference 2009, at the EICC in Edinburgh. Higher Education in a global economy. The implications for technology and JISC The pre-conference activities will start on Monday 23 March 2009 with ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/places-still-left-at-jisc-conference-2009-free-preconference-sessions/ JISC’s recent ‘Dev8d Developer Happiness Days’ event in London saw 80 project software developers collaborate with commercial software companies to create many innovative new software tools that will compete for the event’s grand prize in March. The Developer Decathlon grand prize winner will be selected following a peer review panel at the end ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/developer-happiness-event-creates-useful-new-tools/ 10 - 11 March 2009 Imago @ Burleigh Court, Loughborough University If you are interested in new developments in multimedia social technologies, social networking, online communities, virtual worlds and new skills, and want to know more about how you and your staff can benefit from these technologies right now, then the ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/next-generation-technologies-in-practice-conference/ Book now while places remain! There are only a few weeks left to register for the regional UK Federation event that JANET (UK) will be hosting on the 11th March 2009, at Jurys Hotel , Bristol. The aim of the event is to provide an opportunity for delegates ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/uk-federation-regional-event-bristol/ If you are a Twitterer and keen on keeping up to date with latest news in the world of JISC including events and the JISC Conference 2009, make sure you are following the official JISC Twitter account: http://twitter.com/JISC http://events.jiscinvolve.org/follow-jisc-on-twitter/ JISC are really pleased to announce that the exhibition at the JISC Conference 2009 is now fully booked, including the overflow exhibition area due to the high demand! Newly confirmed are JANET txt who are sponsoring the conference wifi, helping to ensure that all the delegates attending the conference will have ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/new-sponsors-and-exhibitors-for-jisc-conference-2009/ We are pleased to announce some pre-conference events that are taking place the day before the main conference on Monday 23 March at the EICC. To register simply go to the registration booking form online and choose the pre-conference sessions that you want to attend along ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2009-preconference-activities/ BusinessGreen.com have today published an article about IHG, the world’s largest hotel group which owns such brands as Holiday Inn and InterContinental. It is introducing a new energy-management system that could result in $200m (£140m) of savings. Early trials of the online system, called Green Engage, shows potential energy savings of ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/hotel-chain-tackles-energy-use/ The Learning on Screen Conference 2009 will be held at The Wellcome Collection, on 7th and 8th April 2009 The conference is being held with the kind assistance of The Wellcome Trust at their premises in central London. Learning on Screen, the annual conference established by the Society for Screen-Based Learning, focuses ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/bufvc-learning-on-screen-conference-and-awards-2009/ For all of you looking to attend dev8D we are offering free accommodation for you at the boutique London hostel Palmer’s Lodge (only a tube stop away from Bloomsbury). To get this free accommodation you’ll need to fill out this form. Please keep in mind that filling out this ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/free-accommodation-in-london-for-dev8d/ Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 March 2009, Arena and Convention Centre, BT Conference Centre, Liverpool  Bookings for the UCISA2009 Annual Management Conference and Exhibition are now open.  A couple of new items for this year: pre-conference presentations and customer meetings on Wednesday morning. FREE exhibition passes to ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/ucisa2009-annual-management-conference/ Are you: A software developer? A higher education software user? Looking to develop your coding skills? Interested in community collaboration? Want to make new contacts? Then the JISC Developer Happiness Days event is for you. We're bringing together the cream of the crop of software developers in Higher Education along with ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-developer-happiness-days/ There are still sponsorship opportunities available for the JISC Conference 2009 including: Conference wifi - £2k: logo on conference website, logo on individual login cards distributed to all delegates, website page of your choice as the login landing page Conference opening night drinks reception - £2.5K: logo and link to sponsor website, ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2009-sponsorship-opportunities-still-available/ Please note if you subscribe to this blog, this feed will stop working shortly.  The url will be changing from http://graceporter.jiscinvolve.org to http://events.jiscinvolve.org You should subscribe to the following new feed: http://events.jiscinvolve.org/category/news/feed/ http://events.jiscinvolve.org/new-blog-and-feed-url/ Here are a few suggestions to help you reduce the carbon footprint of your event. Any more suggestions very welcome!  In my opinion the key 'green' factors to consider when organising or supporting events are: Venue choice Co2 emissions Locally produced food reducing waste The planning you do or don't do with respect to the above ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/how-to-organise-greener-events/ Parallel sessions launched The parallel sessions for the annual conference next year have been posted onto the conference website: www.jisc.ac.uk/jiscconference09 There are more than ever this year, so there should be something for everyone! More sessions means smaller numbers, which hopefully means better quality sessions. We plan to record or live ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2009-update/ The JISC Conference is a free conference to mainly all those wonderful people working in the further and higher education sectors. It is a consistently high quality event, with excellent speakers, sessions, demos and exhibition, not to mention the lovely grub we lay on in great surroundings! :-) We do have ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2009-sponsorship-opportunity/ It is nearly that time again...the big one! The next JISC annual conference is being held on Tuesday 24 March 2009 in the beautiful city of Edinburgh. We will be amplifying the conference again this year with livestreamed keynotes, blogging of the sessions, micro-blogging via twitter, photo-sharing and videos. We have ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2009/ well, it's all over folks! months and months of planning paid off and it was all over in a flash! The JISC Conference 2008 seems to have been a real success. I know we always say that every year, but this year seems to have been a success on many ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/post-conference-thoughts/ Since the JISC Comms teams launched Crowdvine as the social networking site for the JISC Conference 2008 last Friday, interest amongst delegates has been slowing picking up and now beginning to gather pace. People are joining up, having a look around, putting up their blog and twitter feeds and making ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/the-tremors-of-conference-amplification/ The JISC National E-textbook Debate debate is taking place the night before the JISC Conference from 5.30 to 7.30pm near the ICC (details below)The event will be live blogged: <http://librariesofthefuture.jiscinvolve.org/>Tag: librariesofthefutureIf you wish to attend the debate please register at: http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/events/national-e-textbook-debate/audience-registration-form. The JISC National E-textbook Debate provides a unique opportunity to quiz ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-national-etextbook-debate-14-april/ well, it seems that everyone is mad for it this year and we have had to close registrations for the annual conference already and still a month to go...numbers well over 750!  we have also had no problem selling exhibition stands this year and again..we have a full house already. lots ... http://events.jiscinvolve.org/jisc-conference-2008-fully-subscribed/