Week 4 assignment

For the week 4 assignment, I need to interview three (3) managers or directors that work for the same organization. I worked on the questions (available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pzJqai7NOI8OHQbjYPxOu7h7FwAGfYAPtY_qVxe9gIc/edit?usp=sharing). I need the people!

Hopefully, this will all work out. I may have to submit an assignment that uses comments/information from articles and other written material (rather than responses to my interview questions). Time will tell.

Assignment submitted

I just submitted the paper on information sharing on social media. I like the topic a lot. This may be the reason why I ended up with a 10-page draft (including screenshots) and had to edit, edit, edit to reduce the number of pages. I ended up with 8 pages -- 5-7 pages required for the assignment. I could have removed some of the screenshots, but I thought they added a lot to the paper.
The assignment was due on 12/25 - a holiday.

Final paper:
Information Sharing on Social Networking Sites
http://www.slideshare.net/FahmeenaOdettaMoore/moorefmis70033finalpdffahmeenaodettamoore
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311908157_Information_Sharing_on_Social_Networking_Sites
https://www.academia.edu/30612701/Information_Sharing_on_Social_Networking_Sites

 

On to the week 3 assignment...

This week, the assignment is a paper on information sharing on professional social media sites. I spent some time looking for articles in the NCU library. I found a lot of articles! I am now thinking of a strategy for the assignment. I could focus on reputation management (it is related to the work I completed on online reviews - for the first literature review course). I found a paper on how the unemployed use LinkedIn. I am familiar with that area. I am also interested in the posting of misinformation - I found an article on that. I will think about the options.

Assignment submitted

Assignment (presentation) completed and submitted. It was a lot of work. I spent a lot of time "hunting" for information on Amazon.com. I did not request information from the company.

Presentation (inPDF format with notes):
Failed decision-making involving data mining: The case of Amazon.com
http://www.slideshare.net/FahmeenaOdettaMoore/moorefmis70032finalpdfwithnotes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311714924_Failed_decision-making_involving_data_mining_The_case_of_Amazoncom

 

Week 2 assignment in progress

I just spent some time searching for articles and other resources in the NCU library. When I started the search, I was thinking of selecting the Carmax 'sale of unrepaired, open recalls' problem for the presentation (an article on this: http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-carmax-recalled-car-sales-20150610-story.html). I finally decided on a pricing problem (not for Carmax). This is better because I have evidence of the use of data mining for the decision. This should be an interesting assignment.

Week 1 paper

The week 1 paper:

Information Systems and Fraud Detection
http://www.slideshare.net/FahmeenaOdettaMoore/moorefmis70031final

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311581950_Information_Systems_and_Fraud_Detection

No need to post

Turns out that there is no need to add a second post. My first post is already graded (I got the 2 points). I planned to Reply to (or comment on) a student's post on code of ethics, but was unable to...

Paper submitted...About to post

I completed and submitted the paper late yesterday. I just completed the required second post for week 1 and am about to post in the student area...I am having problems though...the system is "hung"....loading, loading...loading. Hopefully, I'll be able to post.

Still working on paper

There was a bit of drama today...I could not find my "work-in-progress" paper from two days ago (the last, saved draft of the paper). I ended up starting over. It turned out okay because a lot of what I did was still fresh in my memory. I am now close to finishing the paper.

Now working on the paper

A paper is also due this week. I am making progress with that paper. I now have an outline or a plan...I started with a past paper (the week 1 paper for the first Literature Review course), deleted sections that did not apply, added information from notes prepared for this week's post, and decided on headings & organization. Work continues.

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Just finished the post

I started about an hour ago - I prepared a draft of the post, then made edits, then read it again, made some more edits (to meet the word limit etc.). I finally entered and submitted the post in the student area. Here it is:

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Brainstorming

Brainstorming for the first post...

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Working on the first assignment

I am now working on a post due on Wednesday. Topic is information systems and ethics. I completed at least two papers on IT and ethics in the past so I have some knowledge of the topic. I will look for additional articles that discuss how information systems detect (and help to identify) fraud. Very interesting topic.

Related post:

 Link: https://plus.google.com/+FahmeenaOdettaMoore/posts/g7vX7USguNv
 (also https://twitter.com/moorefo1/status/806274481153069057)

Starting new course

My new course - Information Technology Decision Support MIS7003-8 - started today. It is an 8 week course with a signature assignment due at the end. Seems very interesting. Week 1 deals with information systems and ethics.  Work continues.