...world can connect without leaving the comfort of their own homes. Like any type of newfangled technology there are upsides and downsides that need to be considered before deciding if this is a good or bad thing. Like many other activities that utilize time and provide an escape from the pressures of the day, the social web has many advantages and downfalls; however, it is up to each of us to decide whether to participate or not. According to oxforddictionaries.com, the Social Web, or the Social Network, is a “…dedicated website or other application which enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc.”. The current top five social networking sites are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and MySpace. All of these are places where you can connect with others to share opinions, play games, share interests, and overall, it is a place to be social. This is a place where someone who has more of an introverted personality or low self-esteem can be popular or outgoing; a place where a person can connect with people from different countries that they may never visit. Some people compare how many “friends”, or contacts, they have made on these sites; many may be people that you have not actually met face to face but share similar interests with online. Studies following the advantages and disadvantages of social networking have shown a connection between the relationship of Facebook and other social network sites and the...
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...knowledge of Internet research is limited. I made it through the first 14 years of my education thumbing through library card files and magazine reference books. In my mind, a big stack of books and articles was the only sign of thorough research. I feared Internet research for the same reason that my mother hated microwave ovens (at least until she had the chance to use one). The Internet was a strange, foreign world to me. Like my mother and her microwaves, I feared it because I did not understand it. However, my mother has learned to love her microwave, and becomes testy if for some reason she can't use it. Maybe there's hope for me, after all. I did possess a smattering of knowledge about the Internet. My feeble attempts to locate long-lost friends yielded an awareness of some sites called "Yahoo!", "Excite!" and "Lycos!". I knew that if I typed in a word or two, then clicked on the word "Search", that a listing of references would pop up. Attached to these references were some obscure foreign hieroglyphics that usually started out with something like "http:\\%$@@!!" I have heard about chat rooms but had never forth into that unknown world until I was required to enter the MOO discussion room. Armed with this vast wasteland of information, I began my research. Having recently acquired an orchid plant, I was determined to become an orchid aficionada overnight. My history with horticulture is riddled with memories of potted dead leaves, the only remains of plants that advertisements...
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...internet about you can be used to help form or destroy your professional presence. It may be something that you have entered yourself or a friend or family member has posted on a social networking website. Even pictures can damage your professional presence if not closely monitored. Are you aware of all of the information that is "out there" about you? Your posts should be in the 100-word range and your responses in the 75-word range. Respond to at least two of your classmates with meaningful comments in accordance with your Syllabus. Discuss at least two ways that you can help to control what information is readily available about you to anyone, including employers on the internet. I need a discussion of 100 words plus 2 75words responses for the following I need a response of 75 words for the following: The increased use of technology in the workplace has created new concerns for both employers and employees in the area of privacy. While many people think of email as a convenient alternative to a telephone conversation and just as private, although many professional telephone calls are monitored as well, there is a big difference. E mail is as public as a postcard and leaves a written record long after it has been erased. Any skilled person can recover the email message’s ghost somewhere deep in the bowels of a networked system. Pushing the delete button doesn’t do much, because we usually find a copy somewhere else on the system. Use of email and the internet...
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...tHello, I hear so many good things and am so fascinated with what you can do with the Internet. Finding all this information so quickly must make your life very easy. But please tell me: how do you assess the value of all this information you find on the Internet? How can you be sure that it is reliable and credible? Also, I have heard the term “digital divide.” What exactly does it mean, and how do you think this divide could be bridged? Thank you for helping me to understand these issues! Best regards, Your friend Resources: Week Three Readings and Videos Write a 700-to 1,050-word letter in which you respond to your friend’s questions. My Dearest Friend, It’s good to hear from you and I’m so excited about your new found interest in the internet. There is so much that I would love to share with you about internet usage and I wish that I could give you a first- hand experience in using it. Let me first start of by explaining the term “digital divide”, to you. Digital divide is the gap between those who have access to digital technologies and those who do not; or the gap between those who use digital technologies and those who do not understood how to use it or the benefits of it. To put it into perspective it’s more like me and you, because I have readily available access to the internet and you don’t. I believe that the only way we can bridge this gap is to make internet available to everyone and to education people on how to properly use it. ...
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...check for facts. Bloggers are not trained nor are they journalists. However, the question is does the internet help promote openness and democracy? The internet encourages partisanship. It helps people’s already-formed political position and tapering with society’s minds that the Internet causes. The Internet does NOT promote civilized, reasonable and rational debates on political issues that are at the core of democracy. The internet does open things up because it provides people with a convenient tool to do both good and bad things so yes the internet encourages openness, which is great. The internet has been a wonderful source for information seekers, in addition to sites maintained by the newspapers (AJC, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET) and there are untraditional sources ranging from videos, personal web pages and blogs to postings by interest groups of all kinds. However, be careful because online data can be tricky. Anyone can post an article, book, or opinion online without a second pair of eyes checking it for...
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...Center. 2. See what learning resources are present. 3. Examine how the materials are arranged and how they are classified. Are they free from dust and moisture? Are they arranged for easy access? 4. Look for the guidelines/procedures posted or available for the users to refer to? 5. Familiarize yourself with the guidelines and procedures. You may choose to take photos of the center if allowed. List of Available Learning Resources Available Learning Resources Characteristics and Unique Capabilities Teaching Approaches where the Resources is Most Useful 1. Print Resources a. Posters b. Tarpaulin c. manila paper d. documents e. folders The printed materials are posted near the entrance, near the whiteboard so the students will be able to notice it immediately. It is printed in color and were securely posted on the wall Familiarization of new concept or information to the learners. Provide guidance and idea to students who are not familiar with it. And make them aware about the whole concept. Audio Resources a. Cassette recorder b. Telephone It is an old model cassette recorder, although the pla yer is no longer working but they were able to pre- Serve it, and its parts are still intact. Giving insight as to how the material looks like compared to what it looks like now. Non-Electronic Visual Resources a. Specimen b....
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...where younger children have started to use these forms of social networking such as Facebook to connect with friends or to update what they are currently doing. For example with Facebook, its main function is to keep people connected and intertwined to ensure that friends are able to know what each other are doing. And to do this they either make a status update, post a picture or a video, and even making new friends with someone thousands of miles away. But what happens when adults such as you and I start to use this kind of technology in a different way, instead to perhaps say something positive or negative about our place of employment? What if I were to say something bad about my boss or a co-worker, is the company obligated to discipline even though I had made this comment outside of work technically off the clock? The bigger question is if I do get disciplined, does the company have the right to do so? This is something that companies have to deal with on a regular basis now, and has become a very big problem for not only the companies but for too it’s employees. There has been a plethora of cases in which an employee had posted something negative about either a co-worker or the company and that employee had faced disciplinary consequences in doing so. Now not all of the cases had the same outcome but this is defiantly a current issue worth discussing particularly because there has been many different ways companies have dealt with this issue. Before examining the privacy...
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...social media sites to investigate a potential job candidate? In this paper I will argue that these online background checks are not only unethical but they may also put the employer in a legal jeopardy of violating State and Federal Laws, for example a Chili’s server whom was fired after a Facebook post by a 2012’s article in The Huffington Post “Chili’s server fired after Facebook rant,” also according to a 2010’s article “Workplace Privacy-Labor Relations Board Files Complaint against Company over Facebook Post,” found on Epic.com, an American Response Member who was consequenced after postings towards her supervisor on her Facebook, I will write about a survey conducted online with the U.S. and Canada...
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...Face Time Do No tC op yo by Bill Munck Reprint r0110j This document is authorized for educator review use only by Halah Simon, Iqra University until February 2016. Copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. Permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu or 617.783.7860 rP os t November 2001 HBR Case Study Are Some Customers More Equal than Others? Paul F Nunes and Brian A. Johnson . Robert A. Eckert r0110b op yo First Person Where Leadership Starts r0110a Different Voice The Inner Life of Executive Kids: A Conversation with Child Psychiatrist Robert Coles r0110c Skate to Where the Money Will Be r0110d Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Matt Verlinden The Real Reason People Won’t Change r0110e Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey Corporate Budgeting Is Broken – Let’s Fix It Michael C. Jensen tC How to Lose Your Star Performer Without Losing Customers, Too r0110f r0110g Neeli Bendapudi and Robert P Leone . HBR Interview Jim Kelly of UPS: Reinvention with Respect Julia Kirby No Best Practice Changing a Culture of Face Time r0110h r0110j Bill Munck Tool Kit Welcome to the New World of Merchandising r0110k Do Scott C. Friend and Patricia H. Walker This document is authorized for educator review use only by Halah Simon, Iqra University until February 2016. Copying or posting is an infringement of copyright. Permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu or 617.783.7860 ...
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...Phoenix, Arizona, after a disastrous early July meeting with her boss, Beth Campbell. In March, Richardson had been the top Chicago salesperson and a high-potential candidate for management at ColorTech Greenhouses, Inc., a premium grower and distributor of annual and perennial flowers. Richardson remembered the call she had made to her mother, who still lived in her childhood home on the north side of Chicago. “Mom, I just got off the phone with the southwest regional sales manager in Los Angeles,” she had said. “They want me for the sales manager spot in Phoenix!” Richardson had been looking for an opportunity to move up at ColorTech, and her boss had recommended her for the promotion when the position opened. Thirty-two years old and single, Richardson had been excited to show her new team how to break into the top sales ranks the way she had done. tC But after only a few short months, she had failed to improve her team’s performance and felt like a liability on her regional manager’s watch list. Richardson wondered how things had gone so wrong so quickly and what she could do to fix them. About ColorTech Greenhouses, Inc. No ColorTech was a privately held supplier of annual and perennial flowers to big-box stores (large, no-frills, warehouse-like retail stores) such as Home Depot and Walmart. Within the color industry (the term used to describe growers of the colorful, flowering bedding plants used to create outdoor, in-ground floral displays), ColorTech...
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...ANNOYING FACEBOOKERS! What would the world be like if we walked around tons of photos of ourselves, stopping talking to strangers in the street to show them and talk about ourselves to people we don’t really know? So you know where people take it? They take it to facebook! Statistics have shown that the use of it has rapidly increased and has brought the worst out of people. There is an awful lot of people who has a profile on the site and tell their family, friends, coworkers and strangers what’s going on in their lives. Nowadays facebook is used as a replacement for real conversations and relationships and appear to be posting any and everything. The annoying people that abuse facebook are the attention seekers, the ones that use facebook for a fitness diary, the stalkers, and the insecure people that flood your update page with useless, vague comments. We have those attention seekers that run rampant on facebook which is one reason why facebook is popular today. They are also one of the reasons why I barely go on their nowadays. I have plenty of friends on the social network that fall into the attention seeker category. They are the people who are always on there and feel compelled to update their status constantly. These people seek validation from other people and always leave statuses begging for a reaction whether its praise, concern, well wishes, agreement, or some type of communication. They basically have a need to feel loved and will do anything to get it. The...
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...English as a Second Language Podcast A Day in the Life of Jeff Episode 1 – Getting Up www.eslpod.com GLOSSARY to get up – to get out of bed; to leave one’s bed * This morning I got up very quickly because the baby was crying. to wake up – to awaken; to stop sleeping * She always leaves her curtains open so that she can wake up with the sunlight. to handle – to manage; to deal with; to control * Are you sure that you can handle taking six classes this semester? covers – the layers of fabric that cover a bed; the cloth material that covers a bed and that keep one warm * When my husband sleeps, he always steals the covers and then I get so cold at night! comforter – the top-most, thickest cover for a bed, usually made of feathers or other warm material * In the winter, they sleep under a very thick comforter, but in the summer they don’t use it. light blanket – a thin cover for a bed, made of wool, cotton, or other material * When Marcos saw Maria sleeping on the sofa, he covered her with a light blanket so she wouldn’t be too cold. pillow – a soft cushion for one’s head in bed, usually filled with feathers, cotton, or other material * Why do people decorate their beds with so many pillows? I only need one to sleep on. pillowcase – the fabric covering a pillow; the material that covers a pillow to keep it clean * They bought new pillowcases to match the color of their bedroom walls. sheets – two pieces of large, thin fabric placed on a bed – one to lie on and one to lie under...
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...entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts." This quote by Shakespeare sums up impression management pretty well, it is the controlling or regulation of information in order to guide or influence other's opinions of us for social or personal reasons. People can manage almost anything, but the most common is the impressions that we make on others, which is more specifically termed self-presentation. Impression management online and in person isn't always intentional and-or duplicitous because people often engage in it even when they are not actively attempting to do so. In this age of information and technology it's not surprising that the use and control of information plays a central role in our lives, and that’s exactly what social media is. There are any number of reason why people engage in impression management online and in articles by authors Rosenbloom Stephanie, Safronova Valeriya and Jacquelyn Smith, they each talk, to some degree, about the importance of and a few reasons why people use impression management on social media sites and apps. There are people that use social media as a way to reinvent themselves, they create personas that are in no way similar to who they are in person, but that rarely happens, more often than not, people just create a persona that emphasizes a trait or personality that they are proud of. In "Putting Your Best Cyberface Forward" the author writes, "photographs people post on the sites are about more than showing what individuals look...
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...Internet is very influential to the students. The young generation as well as adult are becoming keen in internet. They use it everyday in communicating with their friends and relatives, researching for their assignments, projects, and report, playing games, and downloading music. It is a way to enjoy everyone who is looking for stress free recreational activities. Social networking sites is one the factors that influences the high school students academic performance. Website is a collection of related web page which contains images and videos. Like some Social Networking namely; facebook, twitter, tumblr, myspace, et.al. Facebook is the most popular Social networking sites which is active 24 hours. There are more than 800 million facebook active users. Philippines is in the 6th place in the usage of the site which is more than ½ of our population is active using facebook. Facebook is very entertaining social networking site because of games, chatbox (like yahoo messenger), and many more. Some students are addicted facebook users because it is influencial to the mind and user friendly. There are some advantage and disadvantages in using social networking sites. If you will sign up to log in a certain site they have a requirement that you be 18-above. Because young children have innocent mind and they don’t have much broad mind to think what will happen if they use it they must be guarded. Background of the Study As a concern student you must know what is happening to their...
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...Chapter 1 1. Define Organizational Behavior. The study of individual behavior and group dynamics in organizations. The study of organizational behavior is primarily concerned with the psychosocial, interpersonal, and behavioral dynamics in organizations. 2. Identify four action steps for responding positively in times of change. (1) Have a positive attitude, (2) ask questions, (3) listen to the answers and (4) be committed to success. 3. Identify the important system components of an organization. The four major internal components are task, people, technology, and structure. 4. Describe the formal and informal elements of an organization. The formal organization is the official, legitimate, and most visible part of the organization, and this is the part that enables people to think of organizations in logical and rational ways. The informal elements of the organization are often points of diagnostic and intervention activities in organizational development, though the formal elements must always be considered because they provide the context for the informal. Part II.--Answer questions at the end of the reading listed below: Issues in Diversity Women Triumph in times of Recession – really? American women are finally in a position to surpass men in the workforce, but it took an economic recession for them to do it. The layoffs and plant closures experienced in the manufacturing and construction industries have hit working men terribly hard. Some estimate that 82 percent...
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