Entrepreneurship at USF: We’re Good
It’s been a good year for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of San Francisco. The hard work we’ve done to create world-class programs is starting to be recognized: Forbes ranked USF at #19 on…
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Tutorial at SIGED Conference – Slides Available Here
My tutorial at the SIGED (Association for Information Systems, Special Interest Group on IS Education) Conference was designed to be 3 hours long, but we only had 20 minutes to present. So, not surprisingly, not…
Humans in Jeopardy!?
Watson’s easy victory against the best humanoid Jeopardy! players in the world has prompted completely opposing visions of the future. One version is Terminator around the corner: self-aware machines enslaving the human race even sooner…
JAIS special issue on “Expanding the Frontiers of Information Systems Research”
I’m excited to be part of the Editorial Team of a JAIS (Journal of the Association for Information Systems) special issue on expanding the frontiers of IS research. The objective for this special issue is…
Want a great sabbatical? Portugal!
My fond memories of three months in the Azores made it to this online article (from ioline.pt) about foreign academics coming to Portugal for their sabbaticals. Fire up the Google Translate, unless your Portuguese is…
Social Networking/Online Community class projects – Spring 2009
The second installment of our new Freshman Seminar class, “Social Networking and Online Community”, wrapped up this week. Check out these great projects from our first-year business majors: San FREEcisco A user-generated collection of free…
How Web 2.0 sites deal with ‘bad’ behavior
In our review of 10 leading Web 2.0 sites (Craigslist, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, PlentyOfFish, Prosper, TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, WordPress, and Yelp), we found the most commonly reported challenge they faced was coping with deceptive and destructive…
Academic blogging and Moodle: Two educational technology talks
I gave two Instructional Technology talks recently, one formal and one spontaneous. The formal one was a presentation to our USF Wikis and Blogs group on “Pro Blogging for Dorks Academics”. I talked about the…
JP called a “computer whiz” for the first time in years
Everyone with a computer science degree gets hit up for free tech support. Now, thanks to a column in the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times, my knowledge of tech help for neophytes is finally given its due….
Projects from the new Social Networking/Online Community seminar
After the first run of the new Social Networking/Online Community seminar for 1st year business students at USF, we’re ready to do it again in the spring. Curious minds can find the updated syllabus and detailed…