{"id":316,"date":"2018-11-14T08:34:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/digitalteam\/?p=316"},"modified":"2018-11-15T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:59:55","slug":"the-oneweb-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/digitalteam\/2018\/11\/14\/the-oneweb-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The OneWeb Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tuesday 27 November, Highfield and Avenue Campuses (various locations).<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"#sessions\">Links to all sessions below.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For one day only, and to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/sussed-news\/2018\/10\/03\/strategy-pulse-october-2018\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mark the University\u2019s commitmen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">t<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to OneWeb, the University\u2019s digital team will be hosting the first university-led event of its kind in the sector. Our impressive line-up of speakers will include some of the UK\u2019s stars of content strategy and design as well as user experience. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Join us to celebrate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/blog\/digitalteam\/2018\/10\/02\/12-months-of-oneweb\/\">launch of OneWeb<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmBI8monoTc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What we\u2019re planning<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Building on the vision and change the OneWeb project demands, we understand the importance of face-to-face conversations that allow for d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">epth, collaboration, and a greater sense of trust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The OneWeb festival will be free to all our colleagues and students to attend and will take place for one day only. We hope that as many of you from across the University, can join us for some or all of the sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The day will be split into different sessions including talks, workshops and discussions. This format will allow our community to create connections, engage in dialogue and facilitate further cooperation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019ll be able to exchange ideas and approaches on topics including<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">User needs<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Content-first transformation<\/li>\n<li>Usability testing<\/li>\n<li>User research<\/li>\n<li>Social media and guiding principles<\/li>\n<li>Agile practices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Festival will also help you put our team\u2019s names to faces and learn best practice in various digital disciplines. It will help us to continuously improve our services and digital products.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The line up<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/padma-gillen-b67a1527\/\">Padma Gillen<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Padma is the author of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gathercontent.com\/books\/lead-with-content\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lead with Content<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and is the lead consultant on the OneWeb project. Padma runs a content design consultancy called Llibertat, following many notable successes as Head of Content Design at the Government Digital Service (GDS). He uses his expertise in content design management and agile content production to help organisations create quality content and maximise the effectiveness of their content teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Padma advises organisations on how to set up and deliver successful web content projects, coaches them through the process, and provides content design teams to make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Padma will deliver a keynote about &#8220;Speaking with one voice: Creating great content in large organisations&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hootarmstrong?lang=en\">Rob Armstrong-Haworth<\/a>, Hootsuite<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rob is the higher education lead for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hootsuite.com\/en-gb\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hootsuite<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the UK and Ireland. With 17 years experience of working in higher education (at four universities), his focus is now on helping institutions succeed with social. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Titled \u201cAre You Listening? Are You Really Listening?\u201d, Rob will present a thought provoking talk about the power of social listening and how it can enhance a university\u2019s ability to improve social experience. He will be joined by our Social Media Lead, Jonny Vaughan, to give more context from the day-to-day work on Southampton\u2019s central channels and some useful best practice advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.userzoom.com\/blog-author\/lee-duddell\/\">Lee Duddell<\/a>, UX Director, UserZoom<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee\u2019s been working in remote research for longer than most (as far back as 2008 AD when he founded WhatUsersDo). Lee is passionate about putting UX insight at the heart of decisions, so it\u2019s just as well his focus at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.userzoom.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UserZoom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is to help brands become customer focused by making research Business as usual (BAU).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee will be giving a talk about \u2018How organisations can learn about their users in an Agile environment\u2019 and will be joined by our very own Content Team Lead, Chris Lockhart, featuring some tangible examples from our current website.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Katrina Dixon, OneWeb Content Strategist\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Katrina is the Content Strategist for the OneWeb project. She has worked as a Senior Content Designer and Content Strategist on projects including GOV.UK, Barnardo\u2019s and UCL. She creates and improves content and end-to-end user journeys that are simpler, clearer and faster by basing everything on what the user needs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In User Needs 101 Katrina will show you how to create great content that works by starting with what your users need, and how this approach will work in the OneWeb project. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mark Wyatt, OneWeb Programme Manager<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mark is the Programme Manager for the OneWeb project. \u00a0His previous role to this was Head of Content at Defra. Mark has managed the delivery of several large content transformation projects for government, including Defra\u2019s Smarter Guidance project. He has also worked on establishing a User Centred Design function and embedding end-to-end service delivery within the organisation. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mark works with agile project management techniques, delivering content transformation at scale and pace, as well as building team capability and business processes to enable ongoing benefits and improvements.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u2018Agile 101\u2019 Mark will look at what agile is, what it isn\u2019t, and how we\u2019ll be using it as part of the OneWeb project.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>How to attend<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are interested in the OneWeb project, and would like to learn more about usability testing, content transformation, agile practices, user needs and social media, please book your space for each session below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"sessions\">Links to sessions (all in Highfield Campus, unless otherwise stated):<\/h4>\n<h5>Morning sessions:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>09:30am &#8211; Keynote &#8211; Padma Gillen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/keynote-speaking-with-one-voice-creating-great-content-in-large-organisations-tickets-52517346798\">Speaking with one voice: Creating great content in large organisations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10.00am &#8211; Katrina Dixon &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/user-needs-101-tickets-52518407972\">User Needs 101<\/a><\/li>\n<li>11.00am &#8211; Mark Wyatt &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/agile-101-tickets-52518575473\">Agile 101<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Afternoon sessions:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>12.00pm &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rob Armstrong-Haworth<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, with Jonny Vaughan,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/social-media-are-you-listening-are-you-really-listening-tickets-52547590257\">Are You Listening? Are You Really Listening?<\/a>, Avenue Campus<\/li>\n<li>1.00pm &#8211; Lee Duddell, UserZoom, with Chris Lockhart,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/user-research-how-organisations-can-learn-about-their-users-in-an-agile-environment-tickets-52518136159\">How organisations can learn about their users in an Agile environment<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1.00pm &#8211; Mark Wyatt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/agile-101-tickets-52549237183\">Agile 101<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1.30pm &#8211; Katrina Dixon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/user-needs-101-tickets-52548140904\">User Needs 101<\/a>, Avenue Campus<\/li>\n<li>2.00pm &#8211;\u00a0Keynote &#8211; Padma Gillen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/keynote-speaking-with-one-voice-creating-great-content-in-large-organisations-tickets-52549944298\">Speaking with one voice: Creating great content in large organisations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2.00pm &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Lee Duddell, UserZoom, with Chris Lockhart,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/user-research-how-organisations-can-learn-about-their-users-in-an-agile-environment-tickets-52518202357\">How organisations can learn about their users in an Agile environment<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2.00pm &#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rob Armstrong-Haworth<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, with Jonny Vaughan,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/social-media-are-you-listening-are-you-really-listening-tickets-52517754016\">Are You Listening? 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