Orientation Site for Blogger

Students in Management courses should develop their own blogging site to feature the information and strategies that they are using in order to build connections with peers and potential employers.

Keep everything on-point and on-task, and you can avoid any potential embarrassment in job interviews.

Here is the list of links that I suggest you use in beginning your blogging experience.


Sign Up for a Blog Account
https://www.blogger.com/start
How to Create Your First Blog Post
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41378&topic=8915
How to Add a Picture to Your Blog Entry
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41641&topic=8915

New Logo

Here is the new logo. This was created using the software Paint.Net which is available at the website http://www.getpaint.net

Free, online webcasts from UC Berkeley

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
If you're wondering how podcasts can be incorporated into your course site, check out the University of California-Berkeley webcast link above.

The site offers podcasts both for classes and for events that have occured on the campus.
You can download individual podcasts or subscribe using an RSS feed (to iTunes or other RSS scrape).

For the events, there are also video casts (vodcasts).

This site shows an appropriate use of media. The production values are modest and the media content is compressed to reasonable sizes.

The one shortcoming is the lack of text-transcripts of materials. There are still needs for academia to have access to much better speech to text translation software. IBM has completed research and is developing better speech recognition tools, including ViaScribe. Information about this development is available at: http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/sj/443/bain.html

Steve Creason - MIS Faculty

This is the second interview in the podcast series.

Assistant professor Steve Creason shared his views about Management Information Systems and the changing roles of work. Our conversation was so interesting that it went much longer than expected. Therefore, you get TWO podcasts in one (each about 20 minutes).

MCpodcast_02Creason1 (streaming MP3)

• 1:45 How much technology and how much management?


• 2:52 You have to understand Profit and Loss!


• 4:36 You need a lot more business education than you need technology education.


• 5:28 Outsourcing


• 8:10 You want to concentrate on your core business.


• 9:15 What's important data, and what's less important data?


• 10:35 Government makes decisions based on consensus....


• 11:30 On the verge on a shift in the way our economy works.


• 13:00 We need to teach managers to manage by task rather than by hour.


• 15:30 Remote work in a team environment.


• 17:00 Getting managers and professors to teach to the capability of the technology.
  
  

MCpodcast_02Creason2 (streaming MP3)

• 0:45 No longer tethered to the desk.


• 2:35 Being "on call" through technology.


• 3:40 Managing by time causes the problem.


• 5:30 Working class has easier.


• 6:30 Preserving the knowledge capital with an aging population.


• 7:30 McDonalds' expert systems


• 9:08 Knowledge narratives


• 10:00 Company historians.


• 12:00 Managing a company versus managing customer expectations.


• 17:14 No one knew what Enron did.


• 18:30 How much does it cost to keep your customers?


• 21:10 The biggest failure in online.


• 22:00 What does eBay really sell?


• 23:00 The MIS program.

Ken Hess-Management Curriculum Coordinator

This is the first interview in the podcast series. Ken Hess was kind enough to share his advice about the types of resources students should be taking advantage of during their studies at Metropolitan State University.

Ken is the curriculum coordinator for the management area in the College of Management.

MCpodcast_01Hess (streaming MP3)

• 1:14 Introduction and Ken's Background


• 1:57 Interesting jobs graduates have found


• 3:00 What sets COM graduates apart from the competition


• 5:25 Resources available to students through Metropolitan State University


• 8:25 Where should students look to be more aware of their industries


• 10:25 How much time should students commit to their classes


• 13:00 Career advice Ken has received


• 16:37 End

Welcome to the Management Clues Blog

Welcome to the Management Clues blog site. This site is meant to assist university students in better understanding the issues, aspects, and applications of management theory.

This site will include short articles, podcasts, and links to tools and resources.

If you have suggestions for articles or podcasts, please send us a note.