...communications revolution. The use of social media for communication purposes continues to increase, while "old school" messaging media like email is on the decline. Facebook is reportedly valued at 50 billion dollars. It has the potential to reach 700 million users worldwide. The advertising revenue associated with Facebook and other Social media is expected to generate approximately $8.3 billion dollars annually by 2015. Significantly, according to one survey, 81% of companies have implemented (or plan to implement) social networking in order to enhance their exposure. Seventy-three percent of small and medium businesses reportedly employ social media for marketing purposes.” (The Legal Implications of Social Networking: The Basics (Part One) By David Navetta on June 11, 2011Posted in ECPA, Social Networking) Facebook is one of the leading social media applications available on the web. It attracts all types of people from different ages and nationalities due to the growth of its reputation and amount of members. It appeals to individual who seek to locate family and friends. It allows its users to have daily contact with people that they do not live close to and whom they would not be able to keep in contact with otherwise. For example, a grandmother who has not seen her grandchild is now be able to see them on Facebook. She can chart their daily growth and activities through pictures, posts, and videos submitted by their parents. Adults are able to connect with their children...
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...0 Tutor Marked Assignment 1 (TMA1) Managing Information Systems Student Name: Liew Chang Yaw Student ID: 032120064 Class Code: 3MIF1 Course Coordinator: Dr. Ang Kee Seng Tutor: Mr. Aw Yoke Cheng Date of submission: 17th March 2012 Turnitin’s Original Report Percentage Index: 7% 1 I. Executive Summary This case study provides an analysis and evaluation of Facebook’s current strategy in the e-business of social networking. Facebook’s competitors are identified. Investigations are carried out to determine if Facebook’s strategy is effective in staying ahead of its competitors. It was found out that Facebook faced a few major problems. Intellectual property disputes with Harvard based houseSYSTEM’s creator, Aaron J. Greenspan and ConnectU had affected Facebook’s public image in 2004. Privacy issues problems forced Facebook to repetitively apologize to its users and made many amendments to its products. In late 2007, Facebook encountered over capacity in its data centers resulting in a drop in its user visiting Facebook website. With the existence of its competitors, MySpace and Twitter, Facebook found it challenging to expand its operation. It was recommended that Facebook should remain friends with its competitors and engaged in a collaborative alliance in developing technologies for the social network platform. Ensuring adequate privacy user controls is the key to customer satisfaction; therefore regaining trust back from Facebook’s user is crucial in its...
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...Company Analysis: Facebook, Inc. Merlinda C. Lucas MBA6008 Global Economic Environment Instructor: Lester Hadsell Abstract The Coffee Crisis case study illustrates how the decline in coffee consumption and the rise of coffee production was addressed by the governments of coffee producing countries in 2004. The coffee market was identified, defined and explained in the context of both international nature and structure. The new entrants into the coffee market were identified and examined. A supply and demand analysis was conducted to address what the shift factors were and what were some of the changes in consumer behavior. It was concluded some of the remedies presented by the International Coffee Organization, Inter-American Development Bank and Oxfam were incorporated to help elevate some of the issues presented and analyzed. Facebook, Inc. is the world’s leading social networking company. It became a public traded company on May 18, 2012, filing a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO), “making it one of the biggest in tech history and the biggest in Internet history” (Tangel, Hamilton, 2012). Facebook is social networking service, established in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, that builds products to create utility for users, developers, and advertisers. Users (people) use Facebook to stay connected and share and express what matters to them with their friends, family, and community through their user profiles. Developers use the Facebook Platform...
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...and Developing a Successful Real Estate Information System Plan Jon A. Snyder Park University Management/Computer Information Systems IS 315 Computer Sys Analysis & Design I Annette M. Story February 27, 2012 Abstract Since information systems become more and more important in our today’s society, business firms, organizations, and individuals rely on these systems to manage their daily business and social activities. Hence, it becomes more and more important not only to support the efficient development of such systems but the modification and adaption of once deployed information systems need to be supported, too. Since complex requirements and the technical progress of computer systems lead to a high complexity of computer systems, the use of software models helps to manage system’s complexity and provides a tool for communication and documentation purposes. In particular for web-based information systems, a number of model driven approaches were developed. However, I believe that compared to the user interface layer and the persistency layer, there could be a better support of consistent approaches providing a suitable architecture for the consistent model driven development of business logic from early analysis until system maintenance. Analyzing and Developing a Successful Real Estate Information System Plan System analysis and design consists of four major phases and they are the planning phase, the analysis phase, the design phase and the implementation...
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...Bibliography for Social Network Sites related thesis Aaltonen, S,, Kakderi, C,, Hausmann, V, and Heinze, A. (2013). Social media in Europe: Lessons from an online survey. In proceedings of the 18th UKAIS Annual Conference: Social Information Systems. (pp. Availalable online). USIR. , and 2013, , in: , 19-20 March 2013, Worcester College, Oxford, UK. (conference paper) Acquisti, Alessandro, and Gross, Ralph. (2006). Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook.In Golle, P. and Danezis, G. (Eds.), Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. (pp. 36--58).Cambridge, U.K. Robinson College. June 28-30. (conference paper) Acquisti, Alessandro, and Gross, Ralph. (2009). Predicting Social Security numbers from public data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (27), 10975-10980. (journal article) Adamic, Lada, Buyukkokten,Orkut, and Eytan Adar. (2003). A social network caught in the Web. First Monday, 8 (6). (journal article) Adrien Guille, Hakim Hacid, Cécile Favre, and Djamel A. Zighed. (2013). Information diffusion in online social networks: a survey. SIGMOD Record, 42 (2). (journal article) Agarwal, S., and Mital, M.. (2009). Focus on Business Practices: An Exploratory Study of Indian University Students' Use of Social Networking Web Sites: Implications for the Workplace. Business Communication Quarterly. (journal article) Ahmed OH, Sullivan SJ, Schneiders AG, and McCrory P. (2010). iSupport:...
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...COMM470 August 22, 2011 Mrs. Susan Corliss Introduction Imagine twenty years ago, before MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, how were companies able to communicate messages to their customers and clients? It was much more difficult to be able to deliver the intended message to the targeted group. Companies had to rely on television, snail mail, pop-up advertisements online, and/or magazine advertisements not being able to guarantee that their advertisements were being communicated to the correct targeted group. Now, social media has given companies the ability to be able to communicate their social media to their target group based on the information they provide through the click of the mouse. Facebook has allowed companies to be able to target customers and clients simply by the business the user is currently at and checking-in to. By checking-in to the business, Facebook feeds this information to businesses that relate, and could be of interest to the user. Social media allows the right information to reach the right group being able to guarantee to companies that the customers and clients will receive the message. As with any business, social media faces ethical issues as well such as security concerns, credibility, and maintaining a reputation. Social Media Tools How can new social media tools be used to distribute messages to consumers and clients? Media tools like Facebook twitter and LinkedIn can be used to send messages from companies to consumers who sign up for them....
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...Facebook vs. Twitter Unit 3 Facebook vs. Twitter Case Study Analysis Kaplan University School of Business and Management MT460 Management Policy and Strategy Helen Corbett Professor: Donna DiMatteoGibson August 23, 2011 Introduction Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004. Facebook has gained in, as Sarah Lacy calls it, “some made-up social media war”, on its’ at one time rivalries: MySpace and LinkedIn. However, Twitter, another, very similar, social networking site, was started in 2006, and has forced Facebook onto a collision course. It is clear that the monopoly of social networking that is held by face book appears to be now threatened by twitter. Facebook in the pass was once threatened by MySpace and LinkedIn but has since gained momentum in the years gone by. Synopsis of the Situation The Facebook vs. Twitter case concerns the two similar social networking websites, and Facebook facing the upcoming threat by Twitter. The case presents similarities between Facebook and Twitter, as well as the advantages of each. In spite of the networking monopoly that Facebook seems to have they still being threatened by twitter in reference to their social networking strategies. This case in its entirety illustrates the similarities among the two. They also depict their differences as well. Key Issues Issues identified in the Facebook vs. Twitter case, regarded Twitter’s advantageous characteristics: its so-called asynchronous...
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...B)There are many people or Small Medium Company(SME) out there selling products or items with using the social networking such as facebook or twitter straightly but don’t have the knowledge of how to explore their website or pages in order to let more people know which can help them to earn more profit. Besides, some of them are still selling their products and items in a physical store by running a traditional business method. As in the research, there are many people doing selling fashion such as clothes, shoes, accessories, etc. in facebook, twitter and others but without the payment system, business strategies, etc. This BIT system is designing for Small Medium Enterprise (SME) those who wanted to operate their online business with using electronic device such as internet marketing, mobile marketing and etc to have more connection and connectivity with the consumers. This designation of BIT system will be containing the e-marketing framework that helps them to explore in the market more widely. In addition, it can be attract the offline people and for those who don’t know your company or website to increase more traffic or more network. As the e-marketing framework will be more focusing on fashion industry, this system will be fit for those who wants to do fashion business online selling. The company’s structure can be less than or more than 1 people, as it depends on how systematic of that people are. Of course, there are less people to do like that if...
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...communication in your daily life. How should an organization manage its information systems to meet the demand of your generation? Executive Summary Social media and mobile communication both are becoming interrelated and major way of communication. The assignment contains exploration of these two major ways of communication based on personal reflection and possible ways to manage information system more effectively and efficiently in the favor of young generation. The study consisted based on analysis, execution of real life portrays and additional relevant information collected from the internet. Given suggestions on the eyes of user are included with pertinent points for better understanding so, separate recommendations are not included in the method. Focused point are, strong moderating and authentication system, age restriction for underage children, customization and target based information flow, innovative web-based customers account for mobile information system. Finally, the conclusion states that organization should put importance on the information flow, how user is trying to use it and what can be done to facilitate them. Table of Contents Executive SummaryTable of Contents 1. Introduction 1.2 Impact of social media and mobile communication2. Findings 2.1 Moderation and Authentication System2.2 Age Restriction for Underage Children2.3 Customization and Target Based Information Flow2.4 Innovative Web-based Customer Account2.5 Conclusion | 24444556...
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...St. Anthony College Camilmil, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro Term Paper (A Facebook Case Study) In Partial Fulfillment for the Subject SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Presented by: Arexter R. Male Bachelor of Science in Information Technology March 14, 2012 INTRODUCTION Facebook.com is a popular online social network site providing its users with a means for representing their identities in the digital world. With the “Profile,” each user can manipulate his or her online identity that concurrently delineates personal information and converses with other online identities or “Friends.” Gender, date of birth, hobbies, interests, and relationship status are some of the identifying pieces of information that users display to fill out their Profile. The Profile not only depicts the user, but also shapes the representation of other individuals on Facebook. Scholars have recently begun to study the Facebook phenomenon using surveys and statistical analyses, but none have used ethnography as a means for analysis. This paper draws upon ethnographic data to provide a phenomenological explanation to the Facebook experience. It argues that the digital world is a large part of the experience of young Americans and that the Internet is more social than commonly thought. Moreover, this paper problematizes the static nature of the Profile, arguing that the Profile converses directly with others’ Profiles in a constantly changing digital context that is simultaneously recreated...
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...Zor Zairah Ab.Rahim2, and Oye,N. D3. Department of Information Systems Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Article Info Article history: Received May 12 , 2012 Accepted Jun 10th, 2012 Keyword: Social Network Sites Academic Performance Perception Face book th ABSTRACT This study attempts to obtain students’ perceptions on how social networking sites impact their academic performance. In this paper a survey was conducted by distributing 325 questionnaires to selected students from the Faculty of Computer Science and Information System, UTM Skudai campus students and 320 out of it was completed. The purpose was to obtain respondents’ opinion on the use of social networking sites and its influence on their academic performance. The study confirmed that most of the younger students are engage in the use of SNSs mainly for socializing activities rather than for academic purpose. However, most of the students do feel that the SNSs have more positive impact on their academic performance. From the analysis of respondents responses to the researchers questions as indicated in question 1 to 4 in table 5, the highest mean score is 2.97 which are responses to the question ―Addiction to social networking sites is problematic because it affects my academic performance’. Similarly the highest mean score is 3.64 which are responses to the question ―Through the use of SNS I can share information and resource materials with FSKSM members (videos, pictures...
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...survey on Facebook and Academic Performance in Nigeria Universities. Dr P.M. Ogedebe, J.A.Emmanuel, Y.Musa Dept. of Computer Science Bingham University, Nigeria Abstract This paper test students’ facebook usage and their academic performance. The paper was also intended to find how pervasive the use of facebook by University students plays a role in their academic success. A 20 question questionnaire was designed and sent out to approximately 150 students of different Universities in Nigeria. To capture the main types of University, a Federal University, a State University and a Private University cut across the nation were chosen. Of the questionnaire sent out, 81% of them were within the age of 18 to 21. The Independent variables measured how actively students used facebook, including how much time they spend on facebook, how often they update their status, post on friends’ walls, comment on others’ pages, the level of their privacy settings, and how many friends and photo albums they have. In order to accurately measure students’ academic achievement, we had student’s self‐report their in‐class participation, attendance, as well as grade point average. Six pre‐determined hypotheses were tested. First, the more time a student spends on facebook, the lower grade point average the student has. Secondly, the higher a student’s privacy settings are on facebook, the higher that student’s grade point average is. Thirdly, the more a student updates his or her facebook status, the...
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...Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014, 30(2). ascilite Factors that influence the perceived advantages and relevance of Facebook as a learning tool: An extension of the UTAUT Tomás Escobar-Rodríguez, Elena Carvajal-Trujillo and Pedro Monge-Lozano University of Huelva. Spain Social media technologies are becoming a fundamental component of education. This study extends the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to identify factors that influence the perceived advantages and relevance of Facebook as a learning tool. The proposed model is based on previous models of UTAUT. Constructs from previous models were used such as performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation and habit. Additionally, two new perspectives were added: perceived advantages and perceived relevance of Facebook as a social media platform. It provides some insights into students' behavioural intentions, and such an understanding can help faculty to examine their assumptions about the role of social media technologies in the teaching and learning process. The study participants were students enrolled in a Spanish public university. Data from 956 usable questionnaires were tested against the research model. Our results provide support to the model and reveal a good model fit. In light of these findings, implications for theory and practice are discussed. Introduction Social media technologies...
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...Carey Hite Teddy Dinker Feasibility Study: CollegeCloseUp The Virtual College Visit CollegeCloseUp offers prospective college students a visually intriguing look into a University’s student life outside of academics. The service provides a unique perspective into the lives of a diversity of students from every campus. This practical tool also incorporates user-generated information for the bulk of its production. Through the generation of this information, prospective students gain an unprecedented look into student activities that go beyond the typical college tour. Team The team consists of Carey Hite and Edward Dinker. Carey is currently a sophomore at the College of Charleston studying Accounting along with Hospitality and Tourism Management. Edward is a junior at the College of Charleston. He is pursuing a major in Business Administration and in History. Paula Hite, Carey’s mother, was a school board member for 13 years and also held the position of chairperson for 3 years. She will be serving as the head of our Board of Advisers. Arnold Hite will also be a member of this board. He was an Economics professor and served as Dean of the Charleston Southern School of Business. The Service Unique Features (Benefits): The CollegeCloseUp application has many distinct advantages over the competition. It is the first user-generated application offering in-depth college perspectives for prospective college students. Rather than being overly informational...
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...Mongodb and HBase. We will discuss about them one by one and in a proper research method and will compare them in order to contrast their difference and efficiency. Research Background One problem in understanding the phenomenon is that the size of these data sets the volume greatly exceeds the Data warehouse. A plane collects 10 terabytes of information from sensors every 30 minutes flight, while the Stock Exchange of New York collects structured information 1 TB per day. In the context of Big Data, volumes are reaching peta bytes, exa bytes and then soon to zeta bytes. For instance, Apple has just announced that 7 trillion send daily notifications to iOS devices. The explosion of information in social networks, blogs, and emails is characterized the presence of data key "unstructured" and "semi" in contrast with the data type “structured” is what is commonly handled in the Data warehouse. However, the concept of Big Data makes sense from the moment that not only the volume but also the speed and variety of data exceeds the processing capacity that can handle traditional IT systems into information of value to decision. This last feature, the value is the key...
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