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Exploring Libraries (...and Our Users) in the Web 2.0 Realm

In the analysis and promotion of web-technology, the phrase Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services - such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies - which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first O'Reilly Media...

Tags: Web, Case Western Reserve University, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Presentations 2006-10-24

Reexamining Information Systems Success Through the Information Technology Professionals Perspective

The study in this paper applied an approach taken from organizational development circles named "Appreciative inquiry" to enhance understanding of the organizational environment, management practices, and sociocognitive determinants that are associated with successful information systems projects. In a series of 31 interviews and seven focus groups, IT professionals from various...

Tags: Information System, Case Western Reserve University, IT Professional, Information Systems Project, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-02-20

Case Western Reserve University: Connected Learning - Using Technology to Transform

Case Western has pioneered the "One-Cleveland" initiative to connect the City of Cleveland, Cleveland school districts, and higher education through technology.

Tags: Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cisco Systems Inc., Connected Corp., Case Western

Webcasts 2006-01-05

Finding a needle in a haystack of data

Finding useful information in oceans of data is an increasingly complex problem in many scientific areas. This is why researchers from Case Western Reserve University CWRU have created new statistical techniques to isolate useful signals buried in large datasets coming from particle physics experiments, such as the ones run in...

Tags: particle physic, Case Western Reserve University, haystack

Blog posts 2005-12-07

The Difference Is in Messaging: Specifications, Properties and Gratifications Affecting the Japanese Wireless Service Evolution

This paper presents a competing claim why the mobile Internet has been widely embraced in Japan but obtained lukewarm reaction in most countries deploying GSM. The paper extends common contentions for such discrepancy by analyzing commonalities and differences pertaining to the wireless killer application in both the west and the...

Tags: Japan, Case Western Reserve University, Specification, Messaging, Difference, Framework, Service Property, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-12-07

University Builds an Intelligent Learning Environment With a Cisco Network

Case Western Reserve University Case is a leading independent research university, distinguished by its strengths in education, research, and community service. Case has established ambitious goals, one of which is to become among the world's most powerful learning environments. This means not only providing students, faculty, and researchers with a...

Tags: Network, Environment, University, Case Western Reserve University, Cisco Systems Inc.

Case studies

Additional Resources

You know a trend has gotten broad when..

The New York Times, a well-known font of information in the area of information technology, published Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server, an article by Ashlee Vance October 13th. If the NY Times gets around to saying something about technology, it's pretty well known by those in...

Tags: New York Times Co., Virtualization, Strategy, Desktops, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-14

News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad Sean...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers

It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it was melamine in our milk, and now it also may be backdoors in our counterfeit Cisco hardware. ...

Tags: Router, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-13

And speaking of Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems is not a name we often associate with education outside of high-end technical fields at the university level. Of course, Sun is responsible for OpenOffice and has recently acquired both MySQL and VirtualBox, all of which (especially OO.org) have quite a bit of relevance here. ...

Tags: K-12, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-13

CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over

Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean for your technology department? A lot of upheaval and perhaps one big do-over that starts in 2009. ...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CEO, Technology Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net

Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to the Miami Herald. The issue in the 9/11 trail of Mohammed and his coconspirators is what resources they...

Tags: Battery, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Using your voice to pilot your computer

According to The Seattle Times, an interdisciplinary team of scientists of the University of Washington UW has developed Vocal Joystick, a software which enables people with disabilities to control their computers using the sound of their voice and without the need to use a mouse. Their virtual computer mouse driven...

Tags: Software, Pattern Recognition, Mouse, Voice Recognition, Voice, Signal Processing, Computer, Application Driver, Productivity, Mice, Telephony, Telecommunications, Hardware, Peripherals, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Raw meat iPod case

Now I've seen everything. This raw meat iPod case is from a Japanese company called Solid Alliance. It's not made of actual raw meat but it sure looks convincing. (Tip: Rob Parker) by Jason D. O'Grady

Tags: Meat, Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-13

SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?

What does it say about SharePoint when a presentation focused on whether you can survive it packs the house? Mark Gilbert's presentation--"Can the CIO survive Microsoft SharePoint?"--at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo filled up an auditorium. There are two ways to read this: There is...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Gilbert, MOSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad

Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's new projections in his opening keynote at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?

Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, who tells our sister site CNET UK that Apple is planning an LCD-based HDTV that would sport built-in networking and...

Tags: Network, built-In, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, LCD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Wireless soil sensors to help farmers

A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground.' According...

Tags: Iowa State University, Sensor, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-11

Are there really 750 million mentally ill?

Are there really 750 million mentally ill?Not hard to believe at all...just walk down a street or watch people as the are driving... hell look at some of the posters here!LoverockMike Cox (although he is probably the most sane...)Anton PhiladoryeShade TreeMike FarinaHey wait a minute... I see a trend here....

Tags: flute, Messiah

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10