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Paul Miesing
Welcome to this Saratoga Weekend MBA class on using the Internet to conduct business research. It will prepare you to use information technologies to complete your final project for the program. Moreover, I hope you find the experience valuable in your career and for personal pursuits.
- Assignments: Scavenger Hunt "The Delphic Oracle" might be all Greek to you, but translate it anyway
- Brief student presentations of 698 research projects
- Workshop objectives and outline
- Look over "Case of the Sinking Ski Shack"
- What are the purposes of research?
- How do you go about developing and testing your hypotheses?
- Next, "Cast Your Vote!"
- How do you collect data?
- How are data best analyzed and reported?
- Example: Read "Strategic Information Systems"
a) 3-D’s of Information
- 2 of the D’s are Data and Documents [Business Research] [Corporate Data] [Current Events & News Media] [References]
- The 3rd D is Discussions
b) The Web is the most commonly used tool
c) Other Remote Access tools include Telnet and FTP
a) Student Presentations of various research sites
b) "Why Most Web Pages Suck"
c) Integrity and reliability
- Analyze the Web page "Psychosocial Parameters of Internet Addiction" or take the quiz at the T page
- For more about problemmatic research reports [HotAIR] [Journal Of Irreproducible Results?�]
- See Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources, Evaluation of Information Sources, Evaluating Internet Research Sources, and Web Page Evaluation Worksheet
- One of the most daunting online tasks is sorting through the piles of junk on the Net to find those few nuggets of "truth." The "Britannica Internet Guide" is a one-stop place for highly accurate, reliable information.
- Too lazy to do your own research? Get papers on the Web [Researchpaper.com] [School Sucks]
- Wanna Find your own stuff? [Engines]
- WebRing offers easy access to hundreds of thousands of websites organized by topics in "rings" that make it easy to go from one to the next. You’ll find rings about education, literature, music, museums and galleries, theater, electronic commerce, real estate, computer graphics, software, hardware, health, cars, travel, comics, humor, religion, philosophy, science, pets, and more. At WebRing these are organized topically. Any site that’s part of a ring will display a little box at the bottom of the page, with links to other Web pages in the ring. This makes it easy to surf to lots of sites on the same topic, without returning to the search engine of directory.
- University at Albany Libraries
- Find and bookmark your own sites
- Living in a "Virtual" environment (work, learn, play)
- Cultural, Ethical, and Legal Considerations
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