MIS102+NEW

[|Course Outline.docx]

Reading List is being maintained to tailor the content for you.
 * No. || Topics || Readings ||
 * 1. || Introduction || # Madnick, Stuart, and Y. Richard Wang. //A Framework of Composite Information Systems for Strategic Advantage//. ([|P030.pdf]) //Proceedings of the 1988 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,// January 1988, pp. 35-43.
 * 1) Evans, Philip, and Thomas Wurster. //Getting Real About Virtual Commerce//.([|hbr1.pdf]) Boston, MA: //Harvard Business Review,// November-December 1999, pp. 85-94. ||
 * 2. || Information Technology, Corporate Strategy, and Competitive Advantage || # Porter, Michael, and Victor Millar. //How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage//.([|Porter85.pdf]) Boston, MA: //Harvard Business Review,// July-August 1985, pp. 149-160.
 * 1) Porter, Michael E. //Strategy and the Internet//.([|R0103Dp2.pdf]) //Harvard Business Review,// March 2001, pp. 63-78. ||
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Here are the two presentations on hubs, switches and routers... [|pres-routers and switches.pdf] [|pres-routers and switches II.pdf]

Here are the notes that I made to augment your understanding...

[|telecommunication.pdf] [|OSI Model edited.pdf] [|routers and switches.pdf] [|routers and switches II.pdf]

You are required to create your own weblog with any free blog provider. The core purpose of the blog will be to discuss your studies and intellectual makeup with the outerworld. The issues that touch you most, it may be politics, arts, literature, science, technolology, sports or any other thing that is of interest to you, that whcih drive you, that which keep you going, that which define you, that whcih give you sense of purpose in life. In doing so you would also like to showcase your university skills, works that you had done before or doing it here in my course or in some other course. Of course I am also asking to put up a page about yourself. If appropriate, a nice formal pic etc..
 * Assignment Two**


 * MARKS: 5**


 * SUBMISSION: Through E-mail only at:** **waseemarain@gmail.com** **latest by 27th May 2011 at 5 P.M.**

**EARLY SUBMISSION BONUS: Those submitting before first hourly begins will get one bonus point.**

**Some suggestions/tips on getting marks!**
 * **Spend some time giving your blog a catchy but meaningful title.**
 * **You can take further help from the wikibook on An Introduction to Weblogs (** [|**http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Introduction_to_Weblogs**] **) for making a blog. Section 2 directly explains the steps required to quickly make a blog using the blogger service.**
 * **You can also find insight into the blogging at:** [|**http://weblogs.about.com/od/?once=true**]**&**
 * **Include the RSS Feed gadget in you blog. In Blogger this gadget can be added by going to Customize-Layout-Page Elements.**
 * **Pick up a nice new template. Select appropriate fonts and colors.**
 * **Now goto Settings and set all approprate settings. Add some description to your blog. Change all to a meaningful advantage.**
 * **Enable backlinks. See what they are? and experiment with them.**
 * **Add an article on your hobbies, include some pics to show your collections etc...**
 * **Include a section to give a list of the books that you have found interesting... on any subject of your interest... but should not be textbooks...**
 * **Include a section of places that you have visited... some pics or history of those places....**
 * Include a post on the wish list ....**
 * **and about the childhood dreams ... you may want to hear** [|**Randy Pausch's**] [|**The Last Lecture**] **before that...**
 * **Include any other material that is of your interest.**

Presenstations [|PBGC_Enterprise_Architecture_Appendices.pdf] [|Building IS.ppt]

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 * Refer to the following for Knowlede Management Systems:**

[|web services.pdf] []
 * For web services refer to the notes below in conjunction with the website article covered in class (only to the extent we discussed in class):**

[|assignment 4.pdf] [|Schneider National-Case Study.pdf]
 * Assignment 4**