Description: An inside look at the details of Facebook Graph Search, the new search tool that allows Facebook users to search people, places, and things and the connections between them more easily. Source: CNet Date: February 21st, 2013 MENLO PARK, Calif.–On the surface, Facebook’s new Graph Search is touted as a new method to enable more connections… Read more »
Posts Tagged: social media
How Social Media Can Reunite Lost Children With Their Families
Description: After using social media to locate and successful return his daughter home, Tony Luftis offers his words of wisdom to help other parents locate their missing children. Source: Mashable Date: January 26th, 2013 In November 2011, Tony Loftis’s 13-year-old daughter Allie ran away from their suburban hometown of Wayland, Mass. Allie was last seen… Read more »
Social media changes back-to-school experience
Description: Social media has changed the experience of going back to school for kids. By using social media to stay in-touch throughout the summer, kids are able to draw on each others shared content to start conversations and meet new friends. However, for some this might mean enduring more bullying than before. Source: CBC.ca Date:… Read more »
Political Campaigning with Technology
Description: A look at the way President Obama and Mitt Romney have been utilizing technology. Dan Simon reports. Source: www.cnn.com Date: Sept 5, 2012 Questions for discussion: What are various methods used to campaign digitally in 2012 presidential election? Do you feel that the candidate with the lead in technology will have a distinct advantage… Read more »
Why California Is Banning Social Media from the Hiring Process
Description: California is attempting to pass a law that would completely remove social media from the hiring process. This includes denying employers the right to ask candidates for their social media logins and removing social media as a source of determining whether or not a person is “unfit or competent” to fill a position. Source:… Read more »
The Billion Dollar Mind Trick
Description: The most successful social media platforms serve a distinct purpose but also form addictive habits within their users. Instagram is the latest social media platform to exhibit this incredibly powerful tendency. Source: Techcrunch.com Date: April 22 2012 Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she… Read more »
If Charles Darwin Created Foursquare, It Might Look Like This
Description: Project Noah wants to create a database of every living creature in the world with user generated content. This breakthrough smartphone application has already led to noteworthy discoveries in its fight against Nature Deficit Disorder. Source: Mashable.com Date: April 20 2012 Big Idea: Project Noah harnesses the power of mobile to let users contribute… Read more »
Sentiment Analysis Gives Companies Insight Into Consumer Opinion
Description: MOBI is part of an emerging technology that can tell a company almost instantaneously how people are feeling about a particular business, executive, product, stock, or advertising campaign Source: Businessweek.com Date: March 1, 2011 Automated sentiment analysis is an emerging field that overlaps with many others such as business intelligence, customer service, and brand reputation… Read more »
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Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
R. Kelly Rainer, Casey G. Cegielski, Ingrid Splettstoesser-Hogeterp, Cristobal Sanchez-Rodriguez
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August 2015, © 2016
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