Writing for the web course a success

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We recently hosted a writing for the web training course for BPMA staff and external archive and museum professionals.

"Very useful indeed", "All very informative, well timed"

This was just some of the feedback received on 21 January 2008 about the day led by Martin Bazley and Jon Pratty.

Format of the training day

Image of Jon Pratty giving a presentationBetween 9.30 and 10.00 on 21 January, the delegates were greeted with tea, coffee and pastries. 19 external museum and archive professionals, and 11 BPMA staff attended the event.

BPMA Web Officer, Rhiannon Looseley, introduced the day with a brief talk about the BPMA and its website and then handed over to the two trainers for the day:

Between them, Martin and Jon talked about the following issues:

  • Why do I need to learn to write for the web?
  • Fundamental differences – web and print
  • Access, audiences, internationalism

Image of people working at computersIn the afternoon, delegates worked in groups to create a page of web content themselves. Martin and Jon then reviewed some examples for everyone to benefit from.

Feedback

Overall feedback from the day was very positive. The vast majority of attendees said that they had enjoyed the course a lot. Positive comments included:

    • All very informative, well timed
    • Well organised and busy
    • Good having two people lead
    • Very useful indeed
    • Good atmosphere, and chance to learn from each other
    • I feel more confident to write for the web
    • We are about to start on our collection’s first website, so it was very helpful for me

Presentations

Jon and Martin very kindly agreed for their presentations from the training to be made available online. Please note that these presentations are Martin and Jon's copyright respectively. They are licensed under Creative Commons license Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0.  You can use or adapt the material, but not for commercial use, and you must always credit the author. 

Writing for the web presentation by Martin Bazley (PDF, 2.6 MB), © Martin Bazley, 2008

Writing for the web presentation by Jon Pratty (PDF, 580 KB), © Jon Pratty, 2008.



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