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Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not
always like being taught.
-- Winston Churchill
last update: April 6
Doug Anderson
Doug@RicciStreet.net
Bistro: Doug
Agnello, Michael
Kristy Bonetto
Bouchard, Donald
Collins, Sean
Hakeem, Cynthia
Hunter, Colleen
Mariano, Rick
Poitras, Marc
Theodule, Katia
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Bistro: magnello |
Bistro: kbonetto
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Bistro: DBouchard |
Bistro: scollins |
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Cindy Hakeem
cynthia_hakeem@uhc.com
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Bistro: Colleeflower22 |
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Bistro: poitras |
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Bistro: KAT67 |
Operating Systemlearn more | to be reviewed at Saturday sessions |
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Thursday, April 20 |
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C drive
and Documents and Settings - who did you log on as? Registry Editor - Run > regedit |
file management and back-ups |
| My Computer and Windows Explorer | Sweeping Searchlights research |
| Display Properties | text editor: washing text when moving between applications - Notepad or NoteTab |
| Folder Options | Compressing files and attaching them to email |
| File Types | CYA: The Documents and Settings folder's recent documents, history, and temporary folders |
| My Documents | privacy and security - housekeeping: scan disk, defrag, Maintenance Wizard; PC PitStop, Belarc PC Audit, Windows Startup Inspector |
| Accessories: accessibility, calculator, entertainment | more housekeeping: checking for viruses; Symantec's Security Check, Webroot's Privacy Analyzer and Spy Audit |
| Media Player - Atom Films and Internet radio - AccuRadio and JazzFM - 102.2 FM from London, England | Ad-Aware download and demo downloading and installing programs - learn more |
| Blogger.com for Communications Improvement Plan | DNS Stuff or Sam Spade for traceroutes |
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Webmakingreview: WS_FTP options - Toolkit page learn more | to be reviewed at Saturday sessions |
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| content management systems
(CMS) - rapid application development (RAD) - prototyping FrontPage views: |
FrontPage DON'Ts - what FrontPage options not to use - styles, components, themes and borders, navigation |
work flow making new pages site management/maintenance features of FPage |
| your browser's Internet options - access from Tools menu or Control Panel | Other content management systems: A wiki is a website designed for collaboration. Unlike a traditional website where pages can only be read, in a wiki everyone can edit, update and append pages with new information and without knowing HTML. |
Forms get comments and feedback |
| Internet Explorer 6 (and Internet Tools) | file management - harvesting information - use existing page as a template |
JavaScript flash a little wizbang! |
| other browsers: Firefox (open source) Opera (from Norway) |
- web page anatomy - deconstruct a special page just for tonight to read the HTML |
Style Sheets make designing web pages easier and your web more professional looking |
| explore FrontPage View menu and set FrontPage options | common tags and their attributes | Nuts and Bolts |
| turn your lastname folder on your desktop into a "FrontPage web" | Images - inserting and positioning hot (linked) images in a web page |
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Tables make a nav bar fill the whole screen; Webmonkey tutorials |
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CMS Watch's ECM section
a leading content management and corporate blogging
software company whose solutions help organizations optimize the
marketing potential of their content. Whether you're an individual, a
corporation or a community, iUpload provides a powerful one-stop
solution for creating, managing and distributing all of your content,
while giving you a new social marketing platform that extends your
corporate voice and strengthens your brand across multiple communities.
The FUD-based Encyclopedia Dismantling fear, uncertainty, and doubt, aimed at Wikipedia and other free knowledge resources Wikipedia
survives research test The free online resource Wikipedia is about as
accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows. Boy brings
encyclopaedia to book A schoolboy has uncovered several mistakes in the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica - regarded by readers as an authority on everything. What can the Encyclopedia Britannica do to fix these errors in the thousands of copies already printed? Nothing. Lucian George, 12, from north London, found five
errors on two of his favourite subjects - central Europe and wildlife -
and wrote to complain. Under similar circumstances, what can the Wikipedia do? The boy can fix the errors himself before he goes to bed tonight, and no one will ever see them again. Which would you trust? The Encyclopedia Britannica for $2,000 or the Wikipedia? Note that the ink-on-paper book set costs about the same as a PC and several years' DSL service. Which is a better value for your child? |
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WebtopNote all the other fun stuff on the Port 80 Boardwalk's Net Culture page as well as the Toolkit's Webtop page. The sites included here are tip-of-the-iceberg. Are we amusing ourselves to death? Or embarking on an exciting new voyage in the history of humanity? Biography.com's Create Your Own Masterpiece I have plenty of interesting ones here if you'd like to do two. Who is going to click for you while you're standing near the wall? Categoriz - sitemap to WEB 2.0 Products and Services take your video off the external hard drive as well as the file image.exe, which is an old version of Paint Shop Pro, an image editing program that we will use starting Thursday.
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Thursday, May 4 Web 1.0 |
Tuesday, May 9 Web 2.0 |
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configure products eMachineShop - design, price, and order your custom parts online |
Colleen |
FaceBook MySpace Flickr |
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Rick
Who Shall We
Kill Tonight? |
immerse yourself in 3D worlds - | |
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follow sporting events - |
Marc more: May 1 Buff News article on web cams Web cam directory and WorldLive in the Czech Republic | Tampere, Finland |
The New
Networks Wired, May 2006 Google Video Yahoo! Go TV |
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public records - | ||
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play games - |
Kristy |
make a date with social networks Google Calendar |
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make a banner ad - Animation
Online make a logo - CoolText |
Sean |
Google Maps Mashups (list on right) |
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make a
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Mike |
make a js newsfeed -
we're doing an rss feed instead |
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Colleen |
sample music - download from band's site make a music mash - Acid Express or Audacity |
Don |
make a wiki |
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Marc |
Joe Barta's ColorPicker |
Katia |
del.icio.us |
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Google Earth and SketchUp | host a torrent | |
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Business MediaWe're going to start tonight with Andrea's presentation. Then I will explain newsfeeds. Only then will we go back to our regular schedule below. The
Music Business and the Big Flip This is all part of the Big Flip in publishing generally, where the old notion of "filter, then publish" is giving way to "publish, then filter." There is no need for Slashdot's or Kuro5hin's owners to sort the good posts from the bad in advance, no need for Blogdex or Daypop to pressure people not to post drivel, because lightweight filters applied after the fact work better at large scale than paying editors to enforce minimum quality in advance. A side-effect of the Big Flip is that the division between amateur and professional turns into a spectrum, giving us a world where unpaid writers are discussed side-by-side with New York Times columnists. Mid-course review -- This mod has 18 class nights. We have 9 remaining. What have you learned so far? Due ASAP To follow up on what I said about the Buffalo News putting its content behind $$ in a walled garden. They're in good company:
Whither The
Wall Street Journal? It might be hard to believe that The Wall Street Journal is in danger of becoming irrelevant, but it is. Don't forget the Sweeping Searchlights Roundtable. It's not due for a month, but it's a potentially very time-consuming task. How To Record and Edit Audio On Your PC The definitive guide to electronic music on the internet. with a special focus on the deeper, jazzy, funky side of things. Bastard Pop - make a mash-up with Audacity or Pro Tools FREE - If you have a video camera, please bring it to class on Wednesday, September 28. Thanks! Image sources: Google Images | stock.xchng Sound sources: Sound Dogs' sound effects | A1's sound effects | Free Audio Clips
While Number of
Digital Images Captured Increases Rapidly, Consumers' Printing Behavior Changes,
IDC Reveals
"While one-third of digital camera owners never print, over 10% print every
image they keep. There are therefore distinct clusters of users who can be
identified by their printing behavior." Sweeping Searchlights assignment: questions and clarification Learn more at the Toolkit's Business Media section |
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| capture an image from a video camera | PowerPoint - storyboards |
| Toolkit Sound - use Sound Recorder (Start | Programs | Accessories | Entertainment) to acquire audio from microphone; add audio greeting to web - what tag in your HTML code will make it work? |
Windows Movie Maker step-by-step on the syllabus page |
| image and color basics: resolution, vector vs raster, gif vs jpg vs png vs wmf, file size implications |
capturing video editing video |
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Paint Shop Pro step-by-step tutorials Web Graphics on a Budget - Paint Shop Pro Tips & Tricks - use PSP or Windows to acquire images from a digital camera - optimize images with PSP: crop, resize, reduce file size |
rearranging clips and transitions between clips adding titles and sound rendering as a .wmv file |
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| making and editing screen shots | |
 more Paint Shop Pro techniqueslayers - FTP pix folder from server search Google Images |
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deconstruct and modify an animated gif (Paint Shop Pro's Animation Shop) Toolkit Graphics transparent gifs audio greeting |
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ULead's Video Studio |
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advice for your Sweeping Searchlight assignment, aka competitive
intelligence
5 Ways Google is Shaking the Security World The researcher scours the Web for information that
might include research presented at academic conferences, comments made
in chat rooms, résumés or job openings. "Companies leave bread crumb
trails all over the place on the Web," says Leonard Fuld, founder of
Fuld & Co. and author of the forthcoming book The Secret Language of
Competitive Intelligence. One common tactic is using search queries that
reveal only specific file types, such as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (filetype:xls),
Microsoft Word documents (filetype:doc) or Adobe PDFs (filetype:pdf).
This kind of search filters out a lot of noise. Say you want information
about General Motors. Searching for "GENERAL MOTORS" "FINANCIAL
ANALYSIS" one day in February yielded 56,400 results. Searching for
"GENERAL MOTORS" "FINANCIAL ANALYSIS" FILETYPE:XLS brought up only 34
documents. One of those documents was a spreadsheet from a recruiting
agency that contains the current jobs and work history (though not the
names) of executives at numerous companies (including GM) who may be on
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Collaboration
Take a minute before you post messages to right-click and check your spelling. Download and install ieSpell. Don't embarrass yourself again! ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that
spell checks text input boxes on a web page. It should come in particularly
handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums,
blogs, diaries). neat web site: Name Voyager - what else could you use it for? what would people pay for? Web 2.0 Conference - Tim O'Reilly's Web2 Meme Map
Update your directory info: Bistro name, blog URL Sign up for conference after your final
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| home networking
How Home
Networking Works |
Semacode - how to make money by
running a service
with it on mobile phones
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live video
streaming Spontania Video4Skype Try Yahoo Messenger for more features - but not shared whiteboards and shared applications. For that, you need something like NetMeeting. Start | Run| conf |
| make a phone call with your laptop |
install the Amphetadesk or Sharp Reader news aggregator |
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meeting with Yahoo Messenger instant messaging group text chat, group voice chat - 102.2 JazzFM: "text us" |
podcasting |
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video connection
Microsoft's Portrait ShareALot takes the pain out of sharing digital pictures with friends and family. We have created a patent-pending technology that enables you to send and receive digital photos directly from your desktop. With ShareALot, you simply drop digital photos into a folder on your desktop, enter an email address, and we send the photos directly to your recipient's desktop -- simply and securely. Flickr seems to be the market leader. |
P2P KaZaA Lite, eDonkey, Soulseek, Limewire eMule | FileDonkey search Bit Torrent - BitComet client - see syllabus page Kontiki - Kontiki Grid Delivery Technology creates a network of shared resources where any PC or server can deliver content on demand. This flexible and scalable architecture provides IT managers with complete control. |
| PDA and Handango online software demos | time permitting - WindowsXP Remote Desktop more time permitting - Paint Shop Pro |
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Apple and Nike, Running Mates iPod-compatible footwear
that tracks runners' training routines is just the beginning of a
collaboration between these iconic brands. ...
Verizon set to trim its local phone unit Verizon lost 843,000 local
lines in the first quarter to 48 million, and has seen the total decline
by 24 percent from a peak of 63 million at the end of 2000. ...
The Cell Phone Challenge to Survey Research Cell-only Americans – an estimated 7%-9% of the general public – are significantly different in many ways from those reachable on a landline. They are younger, less affluent, less likely to be married or to own their home, and more liberal on many political questions.
Gates' Microsoft Pairs With MCI To Take On Skype
Hold the phone! Skype | Skype-certified
accessories and
phones --> On their welcome page, the folks at Skype note (Oct 05) that their software has been downloaded 184 million times in the last two years. Unbound
Spiral Skype broke the 2 million active user concurrently online for the first time today.
The Hype About Skype Skype recently announced one million paid SkypeOut
users—making it one of the largest prepaid calling plans in the world.
Skype Rules North American VOIP Calls using Skype Technologies SA account for nearly
half of the VOIP minutes used (46.2 percent) and about 40 percent of the
VOIP bandwidth used in North America, according to an analysis done by
broadband management company Sandvine Inc. Remote Use and Management Enabling Remote Desktop party trick Transitional product: EduCast Enables educators to easily and inexpensively capture lectures and presentations and make them available on demand over the web. Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The Webby Awards is the leading international honor for achievement in technology and creativity. Learn more by viewing this year's nominees, and voting in the People's Voice Awards. |
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Office ProductivityToolkit section -- how can it be more useful? Google's Desktop Search |
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| Tuesday, May 30 | Thursday, June 1 |
| - MBA 501 General Ledger Software | your web sites presentation skills file management |
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Excel importing data from databases querying a Web page - Census Bureau's E-Stats cleaning data - Journal of Statistics Education's U.S. News College data |
department meeting
For each area of software:
What's a necessary job skill? What are the skills that are likely to get us branded, for good or ill, as knowing more than most of our colleagues? At what point will our bosses want us to hand it over to a specialist? |
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Using a workbook and labeling worksheets Formatting - formalized worksheet
Charts Add-Ins Using Formulas Referring to other cells Formula Auditing |
2D design principles - Dia - use Dia to create site map before and after chart design Toolkit's graphics walk through Excel chart wizard - use server log data |
learn more about this presentation | presentations | presentations as theater
Roundtable topic on Oral Presentations
The last thing to do in this course, after you have
done everything else and have all the marks on the homework page, is to send me
a self-assessment. I consider this the single most important document
you'll do for this course.
What did you learn and how did you learn it?
Where your Communications Improvement Plan looks to the future, this
self-assessment looks at the past nine weeks. You have learned a lot and it's
easy to lose sight of that, though some of you no doubt have family, friends,
and co-workers remarking how geeky you've become.
15-minute
how-to presentation
Please send me 1) a small image to put next to your name. 2) a topic or title for your presentation, and 3) a link to a page on your Plaza web with the visual aids you will use during your presentation.
To drive the control freaks craaaazy .... When you're viewing a web page, it's sitting on your computer in your Internet cache. So you can change almost everything about the most carefully designed look and feel. Try these bookmarklets. Install them and you'll be able to mess up anyone's 2D visual design. If it makes the page more readable or usable for you, well, that's the point, isn't it?
server logs
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Saturday, June 3 Troubleshooting and rehearsals in classroom from 9 to noon; in Lecture Hall 1 - 3 PM |
Think about where you're going to stand and who's going to click for you.
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video from June 6 |
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some of last fall's presentations
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using the Lecture Hall's equipment |
video from October 26 |
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Jon - how to podcast |
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Tara "Where's MBA 504 Students?" It's easy and it's free! I will show students how to get their web site listed for free on the major search engines. I will also go over how to structure their sites to make them "search engine friendly" so when the search engines are searching the web, their sites will have a better chance of being listed and listed high within the search engines. |
Kevina |
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Hugo Ulead Cool 3D is a 3D-text-creation tool that delivers high-impact still and animated graphics. You can input text directly into the application and Cool 3D even includes special effects such as Fire, Explode, and Twist, in addition to customizable special effects. |
Laura - how to put music on your web |
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Lavon |
Tim - |
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Brian |
Katherine - developing a professional web |
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Anne |
Colleen - How to put a guestbook on your web using PERL and cgi |
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Kara |
Gyuri - researching ?? online |
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Lemar |
some of last Spring's MBA 504 final presentations
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video from April 6 |
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Tanisha |
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MS FrontPage - Reports / Site Summary How each link on the "Site Summary" page is used and what it does |
Sites and tools that a web design user can use for ease of creating a professional looking site. |
some of last Fall's MBA 504 final presentations
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Before you present, I'd like to put a title, linked to your Plaza web, and a small image next to your name above.
Friday, June 4, 2005 - MBA Expo 2004 - poster sessions
How
Can I Sex Up This Blog Business?
by Steven Levy
Wired, June 2004
Hot gossip! Cool gadgets! Gawker & Gizmodo, Fleshbot & Wonkette! Inside Nick Denton's plan to become the nanopublishing media mogul.
We will have individual conferences. Please bring your laptop.
Please suggest other times that would be convenient for you.
updated: Friday, June 9
not scheduled yet:
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5 - 6 PM - Rick |
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Topics we will discuss:
your
file management system
your Plaza web, both
the pages via the browser and the directory via FTP
your Bistro postings,
available from your Bistro profile
your oral presentation
skills - video
your communications
profile and improvement plan
your
spring course schedule
After you have done everything else for this course, please email me a self-assessment:
What
have you learned?
How have you learned
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Mile Agnello
Kristy Bonetto
Don Bouchard
Sean Collins
Colleen Hunter
Rick Mariano
Marc Poitras
Katia Theodule
Kristy Bonetto
Tera 
Kara
Bob
Keith
Lori
Kris
Andrea
Al
Neil
