Monday, November 29, 2010

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management
What is the management?  
  
    Management in all business areas and organizational activities are the acts of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources.

What is Knowledge management?
      Knowledge Management is the collection of processes that govern the creation, dissemination, and utilization of knowledge. In one form or another, knowledge management has been around for a very long time. Practitioners have included philosophers, priests, teachers, politicians, scribes, Liberians, etc.

What is information system?
    
  An information system  is any combination of information technology and people's activities using that technology to support operations, management, and decision-making.] In a very broad sense, the term information system is frequently used to refer to the interaction between people, algorithmic processes, data and technology. In this sense, the term is used to refer not only to the information and communication technology  an organization uses, but also to the way in which people interact with this technology in support of business processes

What are the component of information system?
      The main components of information systems are
computer hardware and software, databases,
5 COMPONENTS OF INFORMATION SYSTEM:
1. IT i.e. hardware and software
2. Data/Information
3. Procedures/Policies
4. People
5. Purpose
6. Communication Networks

Why do you need  apply the knowledge management process in our business?    
      Many organizations are now in the throes of implementing knowledge management strategies. However, like many other ground-breaking initiatives, success is often elusive. This workshop is primarily aimed at knowledge managers and knowledge management teams, taking them step by step through the key stages of the implementation of knowledge-based strategies. It is also beneficial for any senior manager, especially R&D, marketing, and business development manager, who wants to use better knowledge management as a key to improved business performance.









Monday, November 8, 2010

Copyright

                                                                           Copyright
       

       Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. The exclusive rights are however balanced for public interest purposes with limitations and exceptions to the exclusive right - such as fair dealing and fair use. Copyright theory says that it is the balance between the exclusive rights and the limitations and exceptions that engenders creativity. Copyright does not protect ideas, only their expression or fixation. In most jurisdictions copyright arises upon fixation and does not need to be registered. Copyright owners have the exclusive statutory right to exercise control over copying and other exploitation of the works for a specific period of time, after which the work is said to enter the public domain. Uses which are covered under limitations and exceptions to copyright, such as fair use, do not require permission from the copyright owner. All other uses require permission and copyright owners can license or permanently transfer or assign their exclusive rights to others.
       sourc :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

                                                                            
                                                                         Fair use
      
       Fair use, a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work, is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. The term fair use originated in the United States. A similar principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright
        source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

                                                                              Patent
       A patent  is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state (national government) to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention.The procedure for granting patents, the requirements placed on the patentee, and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely between countries according to national laws and international agreements. Typically, however, a patent application must include one or more claims defining the invention which must be new, non-obvious, and useful or industrially applicable. In many countries, certain subject areas are excluded from patents, such as business methods and mental acts. The exclusive right granted to a patentee in most countries is the right to prevent others from making, using, selling, or distributing the patented invention without permission.Under the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, patents should be available in WTO member states for any inventions, in all fields of technology,and the term of protection available should be the minimum twenty years.Different types of patents may have varying patent terms
      sourc :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent

   Why some inventions can not be copyrights?       : Because the several categories of material are generally not eligible for copyright protection, such as works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression.








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       A search engine works by looking up information on the internet based on what you ask it to look for. You type words or phrases you want more information about in the search box, click on search, and get the results.

       A search engine does exactly what its called - it searches certain parts of the internet database based on the words you are searching for information on. For example, if you want football stats, it's not gonna bother looking on Cosmopolitans website, and likewise if you wanted makeup hints, they wouldn't check NFL.com.
1.Directory search engine      Most people are familiar with the concept of search engines these days. In fact, most Internet users turn to search engines on an almost daily basis to help locate information on a specific topic. Internet directories on the other hand are often overlooked, misunderstood and underappreciated by searchers looking for just the right site and by site owners looking to improve their traffic.

      Often mistaken for search engines, directories are actually collections of human reviewed web sites that have been arranged into topical categories. Popular directories like Yahoo!, Best of the Web and Skaffe can serve as excellent starting points for navigating the Internet. They can also serve as a valuable resource for small business owners looking for ways to drive more traffic to their web sites.
2.General search engine
       General search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites that have a search facility for online databases.

General:
Ask.com (known as Ask Jeeves in the UK)
Baidu (Chinese, Japanese)
Bing (formerly MSN Search and Live Search)
Blekko
Duck Duck Go
Google
Kosmix
Sogou (Chinese)
Yodao (Chinese)
Yahoo! Search
Yandex (Russian)
Yebol

3.Metasearch search engine      A metasearch engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source. Metasearch engines enable users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously. Metasearch engines operate on the premise that the Web is too large for any one search engine to index it all and that more comprehensive search results can be obtained by combining the results from several search engines. This also may save the user from having to use multiple search engines separately.   

      The term "metasearch" is frequently used to classify a set of commercial search engines, see the list of search engines, but is also used to describe the paradigm of searching multiple data sources in real time. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) uses the terms Federated Search and Metasearch interchangeably to describe this web search paradigm.



Source:http://www.searchengineguide.com/jennifer-laycock/sem-101-what-is.php%22%3Ehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
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Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation Rubric:

   

1.   CASE STUDY                       

      LEVEL 4
       LEVEL 3
        LEVEL 2
     LEVEL 1
Context and Background Information
The episode is clearly situated with the appropriate details e.g. grade level, subject being taught etc.
The episode is situated with most of the appropriate details
The episode has few of the appropriate details
No context or background information
Content
Incidents are interesting and realistically portrayed
Incidents are interesting but not realistically portrayed
Incidents are realistically portrayed but not interesting.
Incidents are neither interesting, nor realistically portrayed.
Writing Skills
Writing is totally free of errors

Report of the episode is very concise
  There are occasional errors.


Report could be tightened a little
There are more than occasional errors

 Report could be tightened quite a lot
 Errors are frequent 


Report of the episode is extremely long-winded.
Format
Format is appropriate and enhances the understanding of the critical episode in a creative and dramatic manner throughout the case
Format is appropriate and enhances the understanding of the critical episode in dramatic manner for most the case
Format is appropriate and enhances the understanding of the critical episode some of the time
Format is appropriate but seldom enhances the understanding of the critical episode



2.   PRESENTATION


      LEVEL 4
     LEVEL 3
      LEVEL 2
     LEVEL 1

Delivery and Enthusiasm

Very clear and concise flow of ideas.

Demonstrates passionate interest in the topic and engagement with the class.
Clear flow of ideas


Demonstrates interest in topic and engagement with the class.
Most ideas flow but focus is lost at times

Limited evidence of interest in and engagement with the topic
Hard to follow the flow of ideas.

Lack of enthusiasm and interest.

Visuals
Visuals augmented and extended  comprehension of the issues in unique ways
Use of visuals related to the material
Limited use of visuals loosely related to the material
No use of visuals. 
Staging
Uses stage effects, such as props, costumes, sound effects, in a unique and dramatic manner that enhances the understanding of the issues in the case study
Uses stage effects, such as props, costumes, sound effects, in an effective manner to extend understanding of the issues in the case study
Limited use of stage effects, and/or used in a manner that did not enhance the understanding of the issues in the case study.
No use of stage effects
Involvement of the class:
-Questions
-Generating discussion
-Activities
Excellent and salient discussion points that elucidated material to develop deep understanding

Appropriate and imaginative activities used to extend understanding in a creative manner
Questions and discussion addressed important information that developed understanding

Appropriate activities used to clarify understanding
Questions and discussion addressed surface features of the topic

Limited use of activities to clarify understanding
 Little or no attempt to engage the class in learning
Response to Class Queries




Excellent response to student comments and discussion with appropriate content supported by theory/research
Good response to class questions and discussion with some connection made to theory/research
Satisfactory response to class questions and discussion with limited reference to theory and research
Limited response to questions and discussion with no reference to theory/research
                      

Copyright

Copyright

1. What is the copyright?

Answer: Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. The exclusive rights are however balanced for public interest purposes with limitations and exceptions such as fair dealing and fair use.

2. What is fair use?

Answer: Fair use, a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work, is a doctrine in United States copyright  that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders. For example, such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship.

3. What is patent?

Answer:  A patent  is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state (national government) to an inventor or their assignees for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention. For example, such as  the procedure for granting patents, the requirements placed on the patented, and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely between countries according to national laws and international agreements.

4. Why some inventions can not be copyrights?

Answer: Because the several categories of material are generally not eligible for copyright protection, such as works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression.

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