Business Information Systems

We’re not doing too great with our regular course work, partly because of the combination of bank holidays and sickness…but we’ll get there. Your student projects on the other hand are coming along really nicely. I am dying to see how they’ll look like in a couple of months. But for now, we need to take another look at the organising basics:

The illustration shows six different, important dimensions of your blog. How much you emphasise each (or more than one) of them decides which message your blog will send – and it allows you to stir your readers’ expectations. Read more »

"After class, all we wanted to do was rest."

…much, much more to come. Not much more to add though after today’s session where we discussed blog examples mixing poetry, art, music, philosophy, psychology and information science…frankly, I was blown away by the combined creativity already visible in your blogs – including today’s featured blogs:

• “Shakespeare’s Sonnets” (with podcasts!),
• “Go with the Mood” (art & music),
• “A small idea with big impact” (microfinance), >
• “Pissed Off” (weekly, free righteous anger),
• “A Power Blog” (on power!) and
• “Did you know…” (on anything you always wanted to know but probably never dared to ask).

Even Knowledge @Wharton, probably the world’s foremost online business school publication, features blogging as one of the greatest innovative tools of the future.

I must admit, after this very passionate start, I am kind of tired today. One reason is that I gave a talk at a large conference, which always takes it out of me. Here’s my blog entry about the event. I still have enough presence of mind, of course to remind you to look at the article by O’Reilly on Web 2.0 in your reader for next week.

Otherwise, all project groups are now well under way. You’ve received the instructions on how to establish your self-hosted WordPress blog and you know that you can create your own support group via Ilias. Right? And you also remember that, if in doubt regarding procedures, facts, technology…always post your question to the forum first. Of course you knew that, stupid me.