Amanda Watlington reported in SearchEngineWatch Blog today that
"video search engine blinkx has added PBS streaming video content."
Quote from http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/, retrieved April 30, 2007
When I searched www.blinkx.com for business topics, I found that blinkx also includes videos from Bloomberg, CNN, EuroNews, CBS, etc. Try searching blinkx for videos of interest to you and your classes. As always, it is important to evaluate each source.
To learn more about blinkx I checked the about page on its website and learned how blinkx receives its content:
"Using automatic spiders that crawl the Web, and through partnerships with 200 leading content and media companies, blinkx has indexed over 7 million hours of video content and made it fully searchable using speech-to-text transcription and visual analysis." Quote from http://www.blinkx.com/about, retrieved April 30, 2007.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Planning and Goal Setting for Small Business
This week, Small Business Bulletin highlights the Small Business Administration Guide--PLANNING AND GOAL SETTING FOR SMALL BUSINESS, which focuses on Management by Objectives. The guide is available via http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-6.pdf
If you are interested in a free subscription to Small Business Bulletin, available via e-mail, see https://www.emediausa.com/SignUp/Default.aspx?B=162
Please note that the librarians in the University Library at Golden Gate University are eager to help GGU students, faculty and alumni locate other resources for academic and career success.
If you are interested in a free subscription to Small Business Bulletin, available via e-mail, see https://www.emediausa.com/SignUp/Default.aspx?B=162
Please note that the librarians in the University Library at Golden Gate University are eager to help GGU students, faculty and alumni locate other resources for academic and career success.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Changing Role of CIO
How is the Role of CIO changing?
Check out:
"Setting a Strategic Course"
By Allan E. Alter
in Ziff Davis CIO Insight http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2114854,00.asp?kc=EWWHNEMNL041907EOAD
Below are two excerpts, retrieved from the website listed above on April 21, 2007:
"What will you be doing in 2010? according to our latest annual study on the CIO's role, you will be busy creating strategy and exploring new ways to use information and emerging technologies. CIOs may still come primarily from IT's professional ranks, but just 8 percent of the 291 executives we surveyed believe technological acumen is a key skill for success. That's because far fewer believe their main responsibilities in three years will include shepherding IT projects, ensuring data quality, defining IT architecture or even day-to-day managing. And CIOs will be paid well for the privilege of focusing on the Big Picture: ..."
"...While CIOs want to focus on strategy, their bosses need them to pay attention to IT operations. We went back five years to our 2003 CIO Role survey to see whether CIOs believe the personal attributes they need for success have changed—and indeed they have. Leadership and business understanding remain essential. However, CIOs today see strategic thinking as far more important than in 2003, while technical know-how and execution are much less critical. In contrast, consider how CIOs are evaluated: While their contribution to strategy is growing in importance, so too is the IT organization's overall performance, successful project completion, and interaction with business peers. CIOs may be emphasizing strategy at the expense of day-to- day performance; their CEOs, CFOs and COOs want them to focus on both. "
Check out:
"Setting a Strategic Course"
By Allan E. Alter
in Ziff Davis CIO Insight http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2114854,00.asp?kc=EWWHNEMNL041907EOAD
Below are two excerpts, retrieved from the website listed above on April 21, 2007:
"What will you be doing in 2010? according to our latest annual study on the CIO's role, you will be busy creating strategy and exploring new ways to use information and emerging technologies. CIOs may still come primarily from IT's professional ranks, but just 8 percent of the 291 executives we surveyed believe technological acumen is a key skill for success. That's because far fewer believe their main responsibilities in three years will include shepherding IT projects, ensuring data quality, defining IT architecture or even day-to-day managing. And CIOs will be paid well for the privilege of focusing on the Big Picture: ..."
"...While CIOs want to focus on strategy, their bosses need them to pay attention to IT operations. We went back five years to our 2003 CIO Role survey to see whether CIOs believe the personal attributes they need for success have changed—and indeed they have. Leadership and business understanding remain essential. However, CIOs today see strategic thinking as far more important than in 2003, while technical know-how and execution are much less critical. In contrast, consider how CIOs are evaluated: While their contribution to strategy is growing in importance, so too is the IT organization's overall performance, successful project completion, and interaction with business peers. CIOs may be emphasizing strategy at the expense of day-to- day performance; their CEOs, CFOs and COOs want them to focus on both. "
Thursday, April 19, 2007
American business English and Sports
You can read an informative article in USA Today about the heavy use of Sports terminology by American Businesspeople: Do foreign executives balk at sports jargon? Many of the GGU students from foreign countries will likely appreciate the short glossary of sports terms and their use in business discussions found at the end of the article. And native speakers of English may express themselves more clearly to important potential customers and colleagues by removing sports analogies from their speach as much as possible.
As one executive quoted in the article explains, "The Hail Mary is my favorite expression, which doesn't make sense anywhere that isn't football mad. You can establish your American centricity and risk a religious offense at the same time."
The University Library has many electronic books on Intercultural communication which can help students on both ends of the inter-cultural conversation. And the books on Business communication by Roger Axtell make very interesting and enjoyable reading.
(Electronic books are accessible outside of a university building ; Current GGU ID number or Cybercampus ID required. For assistance send e-mail to webster@ggu.edu).
As one executive quoted in the article explains, "The Hail Mary is my favorite expression, which doesn't make sense anywhere that isn't football mad. You can establish your American centricity and risk a religious offense at the same time."
The University Library has many electronic books on Intercultural communication which can help students on both ends of the inter-cultural conversation. And the books on Business communication by Roger Axtell make very interesting and enjoyable reading.
(Electronic books are accessible outside of a university building ; Current GGU ID number or Cybercampus ID required. For assistance send e-mail to webster@ggu.edu).
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
What Your Leader Expects of You --HBR IdeaCast
Listen in on Harvard Business Review's free IdeaCast.
"... Online Editorial Director Paul Michelman talks with Larry Bossidy, former chairman and CEO of both AlliedSignal and Honeywell, and the author of an April 2007 HBR article entitled What Your Leader Expects of You. In our interview, Bossidy will guide us through the key tenets of what he calls "the CEO compact," which comprises both the behaviors bosses should expect from their direct reports, and what direct reports should expect in return. We also look at some of the hurdles that can stand in the way of effective behavior and how to overcome them."
Click on web address below to access audio interview.
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/hbr/hbr_ideacast.jhtml, Quote is from HBR website above, retrieved April 18, 2007
"... Online Editorial Director Paul Michelman talks with Larry Bossidy, former chairman and CEO of both AlliedSignal and Honeywell, and the author of an April 2007 HBR article entitled What Your Leader Expects of You. In our interview, Bossidy will guide us through the key tenets of what he calls "the CEO compact," which comprises both the behaviors bosses should expect from their direct reports, and what direct reports should expect in return. We also look at some of the hurdles that can stand in the way of effective behavior and how to overcome them."
Click on web address below to access audio interview.
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/hbr/hbr_ideacast.jhtml, Quote is from HBR website above, retrieved April 18, 2007
California Leads in Use of Renewable Energy
California Leads Green Rush
Surprisingly, Oakland tops list of cities drawing more juice from renewable energy. April 17, 2007
By Andrea Quong
"Call it the green rush. Californian cities are leading the way to a rosy future based on renewable
energy, a survey of the nation’s 50 largest cities has found. ..."
See the full story via Red Herring, http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22019&hed=California+Leads+Green+Rush
Surprisingly, Oakland tops list of cities drawing more juice from renewable energy. April 17, 2007
By Andrea Quong
"Call it the green rush. Californian cities are leading the way to a rosy future based on renewable
energy, a survey of the nation’s 50 largest cities has found. ..."
See the full story via Red Herring, http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22019&hed=California+Leads+Green+Rush
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Web 2.0 Impact for Business
Web 2.0 Impact for Business --FAST Search.com reports on EIU Report:
"Everyone knows that scrappy startups from Silicon Valley are knee-deep in Web 2.0 trends, but what about big business? “Serious business: Web 2.0 goes corporate”, an Economist Intelligence Unit report on global Web 2.0 adoption, answers that question and is now available.
The report findings, initially presented at FASTforward ’07, the industry’s largest business and technology conference for the “search-powered” enterprise, uncovers the current perspectives of senior managers, spanning from their understanding of the definition of “Web 2.0”, to the specific ways it will impact their firm’s revenues, expenses, and operations." ...
“I think that eventually these kinds of Web 2.0 technologies will
transform the business model through community development, 360-
degree view of important product enhancements that should be made."
Harvey Koeppel, chief information officer and senior vice-president at Citigroup Inc’s Global
Consumer Group in New York.
Members of the GGU community can contact jcarter@ggu.edu for the full report. Quotes from http://www.fastsearch.com/registration1.aspx?m=860&amid=8319
"Everyone knows that scrappy startups from Silicon Valley are knee-deep in Web 2.0 trends, but what about big business? “Serious business: Web 2.0 goes corporate”, an Economist Intelligence Unit report on global Web 2.0 adoption, answers that question and is now available.
The report findings, initially presented at FASTforward ’07, the industry’s largest business and technology conference for the “search-powered” enterprise, uncovers the current perspectives of senior managers, spanning from their understanding of the definition of “Web 2.0”, to the specific ways it will impact their firm’s revenues, expenses, and operations." ...
“I think that eventually these kinds of Web 2.0 technologies will
transform the business model through community development, 360-
degree view of important product enhancements that should be made."
Harvey Koeppel, chief information officer and senior vice-president at Citigroup Inc’s Global
Consumer Group in New York.
Members of the GGU community can contact jcarter@ggu.edu for the full report. Quotes from http://www.fastsearch.com/registration1.aspx?m=860&amid=8319
Monday, April 16, 2007
Leaders Measured by Judgements --interview w Warren Bennis
In CIO articles with Warren Bennis, including Judgment Call, Judgments Demystified, and On Knowledge,
Bennis identifies three kinds of knowledge necessary for good judgments: knowledge of people, knowledge of organizations, and social network knowledge: "the ability to recognize and assess the information that flows all around ..."
April 7, 2007
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2113441,00.asp
Bennis identifies three kinds of knowledge necessary for good judgments: knowledge of people, knowledge of organizations, and social network knowledge: "the ability to recognize and assess the information that flows all around ..."
April 7, 2007
http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2113441,00.asp
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Venturehacks.com --Designed to Help Entrepreneurs
New website Venturehacks http://www.venturehacks.com/ bills itself as "an entrepreneur's guide to hacking venture capital." For more information, see Red Herring's article "The Upper Hand: ‘Hacks’ web site coaches founders on VC tactics, but some call trust an issue."
By Ken Schachter
Apirl 11, 2007, available via
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21975&hed=The+Upper+Hand
By Ken Schachter
Apirl 11, 2007, available via
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21975&hed=The+Upper+Hand
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Market Research Using Mobile Technology
Free webinar from Zoomerang and Procter & Gamble on April 26th
Reaching Consumers in Real Time:
Mobile Technology and Market Research
https://lra100.livemeeting.com/LRSRegistration/EC/markettools/445421236.aspx web seminar will cover:
> Where and how consumers are willing to take mobile surveys
> How mobile research can add unique insights to your market research
> How mobile technology can provide higher quality consumer insights
with pinpoint accuracy
.
Date: Thurs, April 26, 2007
Time: 1:00pm Pacific Time
Where: Your desktop
Cost: FREE
Info above from e mail to jcarter@ggu.edu, April 12, 2007
Reaching Consumers in Real Time:
Mobile Technology and Market Research
https://lra100.livemeeting.com/LRSRegistration/EC/markettools/445421236.aspx web seminar will cover:
> Where and how consumers are willing to take mobile surveys
> How mobile research can add unique insights to your market research
> How mobile technology can provide higher quality consumer insights
with pinpoint accuracy
.
Date: Thurs, April 26, 2007
Time: 1:00pm Pacific Time
Where: Your desktop
Cost: FREE
Info above from e mail to jcarter@ggu.edu, April 12, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Applying Management Theories to a Boat Race
Rob on BusinessPundit has fun applying various management theories to a boat race. Here's just a taste:
One Minute Manager - It better be a short race if they are going to win.
Management by Walking Around - Only Jesus can do this for a rowing team.
Balanced Scorecard Management - Crossing the finish line is only one component of winning.
Theory of Constraints - Throw the weakest rower overboard.
Check out full post on BusinessPundit
One Minute Manager - It better be a short race if they are going to win.
Management by Walking Around - Only Jesus can do this for a rowing team.
Balanced Scorecard Management - Crossing the finish line is only one component of winning.
Theory of Constraints - Throw the weakest rower overboard.
Check out full post on BusinessPundit
Blog Helps!
Hi Alice and Janice,
I am an adjunct faculty member at GGU--Janice had spoken at one of my
classes. I just wanted you to know that I am researching an obscure East Bay
historical figure and I used the Yahoo! multi-search tool that Janice
mentioned in her blog entry. I was able to get two additional online
references that led me to further resources at the Albany branch library.
Thank you! You librarians at GGU are such an incredible resource and so
capable. I imagine, though, that sometimes it feels like a thankless task.
Is anyone listening? Just wanted you to know that that blog entry
significantly expanded my research. Thanks again!
Viki Maki
I am an adjunct faculty member at GGU--Janice had spoken at one of my
classes. I just wanted you to know that I am researching an obscure East Bay
historical figure and I used the Yahoo! multi-search tool that Janice
mentioned in her blog entry. I was able to get two additional online
references that led me to further resources at the Albany branch library.
Thank you! You librarians at GGU are such an incredible resource and so
capable. I imagine, though, that sometimes it feels like a thankless task.
Is anyone listening? Just wanted you to know that that blog entry
significantly expanded my research. Thanks again!
Viki Maki
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
100 Smartest Companies for 2007 from Baseline
Baseline features the 100 Smartest Companies for 2007 http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2111241,00.asp?kc=BLBLBEMNL041007EOAD. What was their criteria? Click on website above for more information.
How Does 80/20 work for you?
Too much work, too little time. A common complaint of our era. Here is a short article that might help sort the wheat from the chaff: http://www.skillpath.com/ec/detail.html?ck=44865969&a=565&z=941&tx=1
This post is not a promotion for Skillpath seminars, but is provided because we the ideas in the website might be helpful to all.
This post is not a promotion for Skillpath seminars, but is provided because we the ideas in the website might be helpful to all.
Monday, April 9, 2007
Top 200 Public Companies in the SF Bay Area
Job seekers and others may want to check the recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle on top 200 public companies in the Bay Area http://www.sfgate.com/chron200/2007/
Thursday, April 5, 2007
New Alpha Multi-Search Tool from Yahoo in Beta
Try out the new Alpha search tool from Yahoo
http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/ currently in Beta. Alpha is a "multi-search tool that submits your query to multiple sources and aggregates results from all of them on one page," according to SearchEngineLand.com http://searchengineland.com/070404-160302.php. (Quote retrieved April 5, 2007)
http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/ currently in Beta. Alpha is a "multi-search tool that submits your query to multiple sources and aggregates results from all of them on one page," according to SearchEngineLand.com http://searchengineland.com/070404-160302.php. (Quote retrieved April 5, 2007)
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