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| is any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one person to another. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, etc. |
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| Note the basic memes of Web 2.0 are |
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| usability, participation, economy, convergence, remixability, design, and standardization. |
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| A web development technique that allows portions of web pages to reload with fresh data instead of requiring the entire web page to reload |
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| A tag is a keyword or term that describes a piece of information (e.g., blog, picture, article, video clip) |
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| A blog is a personal web site, open to the public, in which the site creator expresses his or her feelings or opinions. |
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| Allow users to upload their content to the web in the form of text, voice, images, and video. |
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| Provide collection of content from the web (e.g., Technorati, Digg, Simple thred). |
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| A web site that takes content from a number of other web sites and mixes them together to create a new kind of content (e.g., SkiBonk, Healthmap, ChicagoCrime) |
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| Transaction processing system (TPS) |
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| monitors, collects, stores and processes data generated from all business transactions. |
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| is when the firm collects data from transactions as they occur, placing them in groups or batches, then prepares and processes the batches periodically (say, every night). |
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| Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) |
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| is when business transactions are processed online as soon as they occur. |
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| involves collecting data from sensors (e.g., barcode scanners) and entering the data directly into a computer without human intervention. |
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| Functional area information systems |
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| provide information mainly to lower- and middle-level managers in the functional areas via a variety of reports. |
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| Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems |
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| integrate the planning, management and use of all resources of the organization. |
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| Many information systems were developed for specific functional areas and did not communicate with systems in other functional areas these systems are referred to as |
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| provide summarized information, with less detail. |
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| provide high levels of detailed data, often in support of summary reports. |
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| t allows users to click on an item in a report and be able to access underlying details about that item. |
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| summarizes the performance of critical activities. Summary reports provide summarized information, with less detail. |
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| Detailed reports provide high levels of detailed data |
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| often in support of summary reports. |
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| include only information that falls outside certain threshold standards. |
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