...Web 2.0 According to Wolcott (2012), “Web 2.0 represents an important shift in the way digital information is created, shared, stored, distributed, and manipulated, and it will have a significant impact in the way businesses use both the Internet and enterprise-level IT applications.” These protocols and tools make it easier to create online applications and encourage users to manipulate and interact with content in new ways (Wolcott, 2012). Some specific Web 2.0 information technologies and applications, categories of Web 2.0 sites, and web services and service-oriented architecture are: AJAX, Podcasts and Videocasts, Blog, Mashups, Real Simple Syndication (RSS), Social Media, Tags, Wikis, Aggregators, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI ), and Extensible Markup Language (XML) (Rainer & Turban, 2009). Key characteristics of Web 2.0 are: Web-based applications can be accessed from anywhere; simple applications solve specific problems; value lies in content, not the software used to display content; data can be readily shared; distribution is bottom-up not top-down; employees and customers can access and use tools on their own; social tools encourage people to create, collaborate, edit, categorize, exchange, and promote information; and network effects are encouraged; the more people who contribute, the better the content gets (Wolcott, 2012). It creates new ways for people...
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...Ho ‘Oulu Landscape – Using Web 2.0 and Business Ties Dayle Simonson CMGT/554 - IT INFRASTRUCTURE March 30, 2014 Curtis Kanahele Ho ‘Oulu Landscape – Implementing Web 2.0 Technology As a recent landscape architecture graduate of the University of Hawaii, an entrepreneur plans on introducing "Ho ‘Oulu Landscape" as a start-up business in Oahu. Realizing that there are many landscape designers and companies that capitalize in this business, this architect comprehends that he must be on the cutting edge to get recognized and sell his services. He can boast of completing many "gratis" jobs while completing his degree, and his accolades are many; it is time to start profiting from the toils of his education and marketing his skills. Marketing requires not only business savvy, but also mandates that the businessman has a considerable amount of information technology acumen in his pocket or the where-to-all of how to secure it. Using Web 2.0 tools and monopolizing on his enterprise associates, including those strong, weak and potential ties will help this aspiring landscape architect compete in a business that incorporates landscape professionals as well as yard maintenance individuals who claim to have the skills this entrepreneur holds. This landscape architect places promotional signs in his completed jobs, passes out business cards regularly, and provides services to civic organizations focused on community beautification, in an effort to create a positive corporate...
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...Team 4: Jisuk Yoo, Mihee Kim, EuiYoung Kim, HyungYun Park, Michael Yi IT Modeling Professor Hee Seok, Lee 3/23/2014 W.L. Gore – Culture of Innovation Q1. Many companies try to sidestep difficult trade-offs: freedom and responsibility, social mission and fat profits, community and competition. So they adopt metrics, rules and processes. How different is Gore from other companies from this perspective? In relation to freedom and responsibility, Gore attempts to achieve both. The freedom for Gore does not mean that every staff or executive can work freely and make decision in the absence of following any sets of rules or guidance. Rather, freedom for Gore is strictly defined according to its sophisticatedly built-up enterprise culture, and they are as the followings. Gore’s Culture Key Concepts No titles, hierarchy, or a conventional structure. Associates To have belief in the individual are given the chance to work out their own problems power of small teams without an intermediary Discretionary time to explore Ideas are encouraged and making mistakes is viewed as new ideas & concepts part of the creative process Leadership emerged naturally by gaining and Deep Knowledge demonstrating special knowledge, skill, or experience No assigned tasks. Associates choose which projects to Commitments, not titles sponsor by committing their resources Personal Relationships built on Personal responsibility to connect and build their own trust lattice Freedom for Gore rather means that each...
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...The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction. Html 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics. HTML5 is a language for structuring g and presenting content for the World Wide Web, a core technology of the internet. Work on HTML 5, which commenced in 2004, is currently being carried out in a joint effort between the W3C HTML WG and the WHATWG. Many key players are participating in the W3C effort including representatives from the four major browser vendors: Apple, Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft; and a range of other organizations and individuals with many diverse interests and expertise. (Hoy, M. (2011)) HTML5 is a really good thing for web developers and designers, because it: * Is mostly backwards compatible with what's already there — don’t have to learn completely new languages to use HTML5. The new markup features work in the same way as the old ones, and the new APIs are based on mostly the same JavaScript/DOM that developers have been programming in for years. * Adds powerful new features...
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...Web 2.0 Use and Knowledge Transfer: How Social Media Technologies Can Lead to Organizational Innovation Namjoo Choi1, Kuang-Yuan Huang2 Aaron Palmer1 and Lenore Horowitz3 1 School of Library and Information Science, College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA 2 Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 3 Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Schenectady County Community College, Schenectady, NY, USA namjoo.choi@uky.edu kh799292@albany.edu aaron.palmer@uky.edu horowilg@sunysccc.edu Abstract: The concept of Web 2.0 has gained widespread prominence in recent years. The use of Web 2.0 applications on an individual level is currently extensive, and such applications have begun to be implemented by organizations in hopes of boosting collaboration and driving innovation. Despite this growing trend, only a small number of theoretical perspectives are available in the literature that discuss how such applications could be utilized to assist in innovation. In this paper, we propose a theoretical model explicating this phenomenon. We argue that organizational Web 2.0 use fosters the emergence and enhancement of informal networks, weak ties, boundary spanners, organizational absorptive capacity, which are reflected in three dimensions of social capital, structural, relational, and cognitive. The generation of social capital enables organizational knowledge transfer, which in turn leads...
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...Concept Paper Submitted to Northcentral University Graduate Faculty of the School of XXXXXXXXXXX In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF XXXXXXXXX by NAME Prescott Valley, Arizona Month Year Table of Contents Concept Paper 1 Introduction 3 Statement of the Problem 4 Purpose of the Study 4 Research Questions 4 .Hypotheses 5 Brief Review of the Literature 5 Research Method 6 Data collection 7 The Sponsor Pay Case Study. 9 Measurements and Results 11 Web 2.0 tools in the SponsorPay 11 The impact of Business Capabilities on Performance 12 Conclusions and Further Research 12 Introduction The social media has gained popularity in the recent past and has been used in many companies in their daily activities, ranging from small start-ups to large and medium enterprises (Bell & Loane 2010). Despite the use of this trend on the social media, little has been known on the specific impact on the companies and the business processes performance (Bell & Loane 2010). The purpose of this paper is to list the benefits of social media and its negative impact on the business performance (Bradbury, 2010). The business impact of the social media on management (Bradbury, 2010) on the knowledge management (Barney, 1991) on governance (Brocke & Rosemann, 2010) and on the strategic competitiveness of the companies (Bughin, 2011). This paper concentrates on exploring the social media’s impact and how the organization...
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...Environmental Trends, Opportunities, and Threats The People creating industry continues to draw interest from all types of individuals, professionals, and corporations and is constantly evolving. Podcasting which was once associated primarily with just IPODs is providing a flexible avenue to communicate through audio content. User generated content and blogging continue to connect individuals and groups while providing an avenue to feel needed and part of something. People are using these avenues to create business, drive revenue, gain information, and advertise products and services, and present views on a variety of topics. Environment trends: Individuals and Corporations are starting to depend on the blogging industry, podcasting industry, and user generated content industry as a way to convey their message, connect with other individuals for feedback and instruction, or simply to market their brand and products. The sub industries of People Creating provide an environment to do just that. The podcasting industry provides record labels, musicians, media outlets, news outlets, and radio shows an avenue for consumers to listen to their product in a both flexible and economic environment. The way customers listen to radio programs, news reports, and even political debates offer a completely new way to enjoy technology. The user today can simply access a podcast through an internet or PC device and listen to their favorite content without even turning on a radio. The...
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...You Learn About Information Technology? 29 1.7 Plan of the Book 30 1.8 Managerial Issues 31 Minicase: NHS Hospitals Adopt Wireless 35 G Information Technologies: Concepts, Types, and IT Support 38 Mary Kay's IT Systems 39 2.1 Information Systems: Concepts and Definitions 41 2.2 Classification and Types of Information Systems 42 2.3 How IT Supports People 52 2.4 How IT Supports Supply Chains and Business Processes 56 2.5 Information Systems Infrastructure, Architecture, and Emerging Computing Environments 58 2.6 Innovative and Futuristic Information Systems 64 2.7 Managerial Issues 67 Minicase: Airbus Improves Productivity with RFID 72 Networked Devices and a Collaboration Portal Tackle Super Bowl Logistics 113 4.1 Enterprise Networks, Connectivity, and Trends 115 4.2...
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...core competency in search technology. It also offers several other value-added tools. The major tools are the following: • Google Product Search • Google News • Google Earth • Google Maps • Google Scholar • Google Wireless • Google Print • Gmail • Google Mini • Google Desktop • Google Labs • Orkut • Google Office • Google Translate • Google Chrome Problems Many companies want to displace or to become as successful Google. Powerset.com, a new start-up company, wants to use natural language queries instead of keywords as a model. If this successful, this concept may disrupt the search engine industry and intensify the industry wars. Wikia.com is a for-profit Web site related to Wikipedia Foundation (which is a non for-profit organization). Wikia is growing very rapidly, 30.000 contributors created 500.000 Wikia articles in 45 languages in a 2-year period. One of its projects uses the people’s community brain to build a better search engine than Google. Google must find a new way/technology to overcome its competitors. Case Analysis 1. Use Google to conduct a search....
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...examines Web 2.0, what online features are considered part of Web 2.0, and demonstrates the advancements of the internet. We will also review the necessary technology needed for cloud computing and Web 2.0. Finally, we look at how cloud computing will inevitably change business along with the risks and benefits involved. CLOUD COMPUTING 3 Cloud computing is a common term for anything related to distributing hosted services via the Internet (Rouse, 2010). These services are divided into three groups: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service (Rouse, 2010). "The name cloud computing was inspired by the cloud symbol that's often used to represent the Internet in flowcharts and diagrams" (Rouse, 2010). There are three distinct features that differentiate a cloud service from established hosting (Rouse, 2010). It is sold on request, generally by the minute or the hour; it is flexible, at any given time a user can acquire any amount of service they wish at any given time; and the service is completely managed by the provider, all the consumer needs is their personal computer and Internet access (Rouse, 2010). Interest in cloud computing has accelerated due to considerable innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as enhanced high speed internet access and a shaky economy (Rouse, 2010). CLOUD COMPUTING 4 Web 2.0 is an expression which refers to the second generation of the World Wide Web ("Web 2.0"...
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...accessed throughout the world. Accordingly, the development of information technology through the concept of e-commerce has changed the business environment more conducive to force us to dominate the field more quickly. Rapid development in information technology, especially in the development of the Internet has led to the extensive use of electronic in the daily business such as e-commerce, e-government and e-commerce as well. E-mail and the internet site are the most important component of e-commerce. While the growing importance of the Web 2.0 and the effects on consumers and organisations are issues frequently making headlines and increasingly attracting academic attention. The interest is often focused on the ways in which these applications will contribute to customer behavioural change and on new challenges facing strategist and marketers (Urban, 2003; McKinsey Quarterly, 2007). There is little clarity as to the exact nature of Web 2.0 for all intents and purposes, there is still no generally accepted definition of the term and no systematic...
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...1. (TCO 2) What is an example of mobile entertainment that you might utilize via your smart phone? Television viewing through smart phone or Online chatting on social networking sites via smart phone. 2. (TCO 2) Key factors of the services provided through L-commerce include all of the following except OPTIONS NOT GIVEN 3. (TCO 2) Goods that can be transformed to digital format and delivered over the Internet are referred to as DIGITAL PRODUCT OR GOODS 4. (TCO 3) One of the characteristics of Web 2.0 in the travel industry is that it allows access to all the content and services on network, which helps to build up portals from resources that are readily available to be shared between the trading partners, including availability checking, reservation, query services, booking, rental, insurance, weather etc. 5. (TCO 3) All of the following are true about a general-purpose pure-play e-tailer except OPTIONS NOT GIVEN 6. (TCO 3) A company that creates and manages many-to-many markets is called a market maker 7. (TCO 4) The __ secure socket layer___ was invented by Netscape to use standard certificates for authentication and data encryption to ensure privacy or confidentiality. 8. (TCO 4) Access to a network should be based on factors like anti-malware protection level, firewall assessment, both user and host authentication etc. 9. (TCO 4) All of the following are important security functions of proxy servers except OPTIONS NOT GIVEN 10. (TCO 4) All of the...
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...Coca Cola and Web 2.0 Technology What is Web 2.0? According to the textbook, web 2.0 “ refers to a loose cloud of capabilities, technologies, business models, and philosophies.” However, the wikipedia website stated that web 2.0 is “proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered contet.” Most people thought Web 2.0 is a term used in internet technology which is equal to RSS plus Blog, plus SNS, and plus any other new internet term. In my point of view, web 2.0 is a personalized web service that need every users’s participation. All of users face to a lot of microcontent every day. For example, blogs, pictures, videos, musics, new friends, favorite tags and so on. Web 2.0 can help users to manage, maitain, store, store, share, and transfer these microcontents. Web 2.0’s strategic position is “web as platform”. The users can concrol the data by themselves. The core cmpatency of web 2.0 is service, not packaged software. According to McKinsey&Company’s reasearch, there are “69 percent of respondents report that their companies have gained measurable business benefits.” Web 2.0 can help company provide more innovative products and services. It can improve more effective marketing. Besides, web 2.0 not only can provide better access to knowledge, but also can lower the cost of doing business and higher revenues. The companies that use web 2.0 technologies effectively will get greater benefits. Through the use of Web 2.0 technologies, the successful companies...
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...Startup Web 2.0 Opportunity Statement:- John (my friend) is planning a startup to provide services towards home-finding and mortgage process until the mortgage application closes, and home funds. Background:- John has sent an email wanting to get some suggestions/feedback/ideas in his start-up initiative. And the below is the response articulating the proposal to implement some features/capabilities by leveraging the Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 technologies. Narration:- John, Glad to know that you are on your way to launching yet another start-up after a decade or so. Based on your email, my understanding is that you want to provide services right from time prospect home buyer can search for properties/homes, get pre-approval, look for best rates and mortgage lenders, upload documents and get underwriting approval. Further, close the mortgage all at one place. Certainly, there has been a good amount of progress seen on the Internet. There have been changes in the way organizations have been or will be conducting business, and this is just adjusting/responding to the way customers, employees, partners, etc. have been using the latest advancement in technology. Probably, launching web-site to provide these services will be a good start. Being adaptive to way people have been lately shopping, searching i.e. here are some of the necessary capabilities critical to be incorporated by leveraging Web2.0 technologies:- 1. Broad communication (Blogs/podcasts/videocasts/peer...
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...His sporting goods shop does well and is also a type of meeting place and lounge for people who participate in different leagues of different sports from around the city. Every type of sports team and league from Football teams, Bowling leagues, Billiards leagues, rugby teams, poker buddies, Golf leagues, Hey Jawhar, I know that you’re in school Studying Information technology. How would I take this idea and turn it to a web site where people from all over the world can interact based on the sports that they enjoy. That sounds really cool. What you should do is create a site within your store site where People can interact, Post and share pictures/videos ask for advice and sell their used sports equipment to each other. It would be what is called a web 2.0 Company. A Web 2.0 company is a company that has its foundation set in the web: The internet is its main platform and all other steams of the business stems from that main platform. Within that platform the user controls their data. I believe this to be one of the most important aspects of and Web 2.0 site. What do you mean by that? Control their data? A great example would be how on facebook you only see the post of who you have accepted as friends. This would be similar in the way that if your part of the foot ball and bowling community you wouldn’t see post for rugby. That’s interesting. It would almost be like Facebook and EBay combined but sports would be the concentration. Now the next important aspect would...
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