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  Chapter 8 Social Computing   8.1 Web 2.0 These are different methods to share information and applications over the web. AJAX is a technique that keeps reloading certain sections of the websites that are in use, speeding up the process. Tagging is like Instagram tags. Microblogging is like mini-reviews. And wikis are crowd-sourced.   8.2 Fundamentals of social computing in business The benefits for customers are that there are generally faster responses over social media, customers can assist other customers and customers can easily search and link products off the buyer’s website.   8.3 Social computing in business: shopping Shopping on social media helps to modulate what individual likes that they might have.   8.4 Social computing in business: marketing Social advertising is often seen on Facebook and Instagram wherever they can. Because we see so many ads, they are very clicked on and viewed.   8.5 Social computing in busin...

  Chapter 6 6.1 Ethical Issues Ethical frameworks: these are different for every human being alive. However, people can often have a similar stance to others around them. Common stances are the practical approach, The rights approach, The fairness approach, and the common good approach. The Utilitarian approach means the most amount of Good for the least amount of Harm. The Right approach means that everyone is entitled to human rights (treat everyone the way you want to be treated) The Fairness approach means everyone is treated to the same benchmark, regardless of who they are. Finally, the common good approach means that everyone regards the relationships for and in society and puts them as a priority.   6.2 Privacy Many rules and regulations protect how people are allowed to share yours or others' private information such as Names and addresses, bank account and credit card details, Photos, and general information about a person.   Gray, H., Issa,...

  Chapter 5 5.1 Managers and decision making The reason that businesses use management systems is so that they can manage resources and get the correct performances out of the staff involved. They must consider all problems and issues and how to appropriately deal with them with the resources available.   5.2 what is business intelligence? Business intelligence is how a business or company incorporates data collection technologies effectively and appropriately apply them.   5.3 Business intelligence applications for data analysis One use of data analysis is called data mining. This is where companies and corporations use data banks to predict trends and behaviours and identify previous trends and behaviours.   5.4 Business intelligence applications for presenting results. Once the data is mined, it is collated into a readable system for everyone to interpret and understand, so that employees can gain the best results for their upper management. ...

  Chapter 4 4.1 What is a computer network? A computer network is a network that connects all computers and digital devices to one main computer called a server, from which they can get resources. These are normally connected through a cable called a LAN or through a Wi-Fi connection called a WAN. These can be as localised as possible or, as big as Google.   4.2 Network fundamentals There are two main network signals that are commonly used. The first is analogue and the second is digital signals. analogue signals are what are commonly used in radio stations, where they modulate frequency and amplitude to broadcast, while digital signals give out pulses in the language of binary.   4.3 The internet and the world wide web The World Wide Web is a global WAN system that we use every day whether we think about it or not. Now, we often access it with our phones or handheld devices as well as computers.   4.4 Network applications The networks allow peo...

 Chapter 3   3.1 Managing Data  Data can often be placed into different systems that don’t communicate with each other well. When this happens, it can be difficult to gather and manage all the data coming through the many systems. Over the years as the data has changed from physical to digital copies, this means that there are fewer inefficacies of physical data transfer as well as fewer opportunities for certain data to go missing or rotting.   3.2 The Database Approach As the years progressed, there was a distinct lack of planning when single automated systems were created. Now when everything is being collectively automated, it is hard for everything to come together and work how the designers wished they might.   3.3 Database Management Systems  As databases have grown bigger and better over the years, the need for streamlining key information is important. This means having a couple of keywords or phrases that can be selected and then...

  Chapter 2   2.1 Business pressures, organisational responses, and IT support. As businesses grow, they have increasingly more pressure to perform and generate a solid income and company growth. As times move on, information sharing, data generating and consolidating become highly necessary.   2.2 Competitive advantage and strategic information systems. Competitive advantages are fantastic when trying to build your business. When you are competing against other retailers of similar products, using strategic information systems can show you how to beat your competitors. Innovation, Operational effectiveness, Differentiation, cost leadership and customer orientation are all ways of creating competitive advantages.   2.3 Business-IT alignment. There are multiple ways that you can ‘align’ your business with IT. You can: -         View IT as an engine of innovation. -         View...