Stuart Dempster, Director of the Strategic Content Alliance, writes on the potential for a national brand on UK-created or originated digital content Could lessons from the past help deliver economic growth and enhance online reputational value for content creators contributing to the ‘digital economy’ in the UK today? Could a ‘Made in Digital Britain/UK’ help us [...]
Strategic Content Alliance Funding Opportunities 2011/12
The Strategic Content Alliance is pleased to announce funding opportunites in the following areas: JISC ITT Strategic Content Alliance: Digital Content Sustainability Syllabus Development The JISC, on behalf of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) invites tenders to create a syllabus of open digital resources and related training courses. This syllabus is intended to foster the [...]
Free workshop: Maximising online resource effectiveness
10:00 Wednesday 20 July – 16:00 Thursday 21 July 2011 at 115 New Cavendish Street, University of Westminster This two day workshop leads participants to seek maximum value from online resources and activities. It does this by addressing the range of strategic and tactical considerations that determine effectiveness in this area-including an understanding of how [...]
Maximising online effectiveness
The Strategic Content Alliance in partnership with JISC Netskills have been holding a series of workshops (with more planned in the future) on maximising the effectiveness of your online presence, aiming to improve search and discovery of online resources. These two-day workshops have tackled search engine optimisation (SEO) and related issues. They have also allowed [...]
Workshop: July 14, London: Gaining business intelligence from user activity data
Business intelligence resulting from ‘user activity data’ could help universities to manage resources more efficiently, budget more effectively, make smarter purchasing decisions, and improve their services. JISC invites you to attend a workshop exploring the potential of this data which is derived from services such as library systems, virtual learning environments and student registries.
Workshop: July 30, London: Audience analysis techniques
This FREE workshop from the Strategic Content Alliance introduces simple and inexpensive Audience Analysis techniques. It aims to improve your knowledge and understanding about how to measure and demonstrate the impact of your collection or website beyond a simple numeric value ie number of hits. The workshop offers delegates the opportunity to get the most [...]
More dates for ‘Maximising the effectiveness of your online resources’ workshops
Registration for the 8-9th April 2010 workshop at Brettenham House, London is now closed due to an overwhelming response, however more dates have been added to the programme: 10:00 Wednesday 2 June – 16:00 Thursday 3 June 2010 Netskills Training Suite, Herschel Building, Newcastle University Register at: www.netskills.ac.uk/workshop/4407 10:00 Thursday 17 June – 16:00 Friday 18 [...]
Maximising the Effectiveness of Your Online Resources
How to use the latest techniques to improve the quality of your web presence 10:00 Thursday 8 April – 16:00 Friday 9 April 2010 JISC Meeting Rooms,Brettenham House, London REGISTRATION FOR THIS WORSHOP IS NOW CLOSED
Download: new SEO report with case studies
Can just a few simple and inexpensive search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques can increase the visibility of an organisation’s online content and the number of users to its website? JISC explored this hypothesis with the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and three UK organisations. Read on to find out more and download the report that [...]
Audience analysis workshop: book now for morning session
Due to unprecedented interest in the Strategic Content Alliance Audience Analysis workshop, registration is now closed for the afternoon session. However, there are still limited places to the morning session. Please do register for the morning session only at: http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/scaworkshop

