Overflight Award Given to Digital Media Conference Speakers
The Overflight Award for Excellence, created by ArnoldIT.com and JBoye.com, was presented to Caroline Coetzee of Cambridge University Hospitals at the JBoye08 4th International Conference Nov. 4 to 6, held at the Scandinavian Congress Centre in Aarhus.
Aarhus, Denmark (PRWEB) November 12, 2008 -- The Overflight Award for Excellence, created by ArnoldIT.com and JBoye.com, was presented to Caroline Coetzee of Cambridge University Hospitals at the JBoye08 4th International Conference (http://jboye08.dk/) Nov. 4 to 6, held at the Scandinavian Congress Centre in Aarhus.
The award recognizes the best presentation at the conference on digital media, which attracted more than 260 attendees and featured more than 40 speakers from around the world.
Coetzee offered a relevant talk called "The business case game (or is a web site really more important than a maternity unit?)." This presentation raised real world questions about healthcare business cases and suggetsed answers for those situations of trying to justify the importance of spending on a web site rather than a maternity unit. Slides of the presentation are available at http://jboye08.dk/speakers/caroline_coetzee. She was awarded an engraved Lucite trophy and 500 Euros.
The online communications manager of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Coetzee is part of the communications team with responsibilities including strategy, policy and overall responsibility for major web implementations and managing the small web team.
An honorable mention went to Niklas Sinander, manager for Enterprise Content Management at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). He gave the popular talk "Wiki from Theory to Practice." This presentation showed how EUMETSAT management was convinced to authorize the implementation of a wiki, what governance model was defined, the initial user experiences and the usage over the longer term, as well as what updates are planned for the future. Slides of the talk are available at http://jboye08.dk/speakers/niklas_sinander. He was awarded an engraved Lucite trophy.
Stephen Arnold and Janus Boye created the award to permit the community attending the conference to identify presentations that met the following criteria: information that would be useful to delegates upon returning to work; research supporting the presentatio; quality of the delivery and examples; and importance of the speakers' topics at the time of the conference.
A panel of distinguished attendees and information practitioners had the task of assessing the presentations and determining the winners. The judges were Andrew Fix, Shell; Volker Grünauer, Wienerberger; Magnus Børnes Hellevik, The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration; Ove Kristiansen, Region Syddanmark; and Pernilla Webber, Alfa Laval.
The Overflight Award will be a permanent feature of future conferences organized by Boye.
About ArnoldIT.com
Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. For more information about Arnold IT, contact Stuart Schram, chief technology officer, at (502) 228-1966. The company's Web site is http://arnoldit.com, and the Beyond Search blog is at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/.
About JBoye.com
J. Boye, a digital media enterprise, is frequently contracted to help with strategy and governance, project planning, requirement specifications, vendor and software selection, project management and ROI optimization. They also produce industry reports and organize educational conferences. Contact the company at info [at] jboye.co.uk or info [at] jboye.dk.
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