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How to Use Footnotes in Microsoft Word - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 07 Nov 11
     
    YouTube video for anyone struggling how to insert a footnote into a word processing document. You can also search "footnote" in the help application of your word processing program (e.g. Microsoft Word).
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Health Care Bill Page 425 - The Truth - 0 views

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  • On Page 425 of Obama's health care bill, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes... They are going to push SUICIDE to cut Medicare spending!!! And no, I am NOT KIDDING YOU! So those of you who voted for Obama have now put yourself and your own parents in dire straights... Congratulations!
  • Reyna Martinez on 17 Oct 11
     
    This site discribes page 425 of The Health Care Bill. Unfortunately this is one of few or many negative requirements of the bill.
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Writing Guide: Case Studies - 0 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 07 Oct 11
     
    From Colorado State University, a valuable site for researching case studies.
  • Billy Gerchick on 07 Oct 11
     
    I've noticed that some have broad issues which may be focused by studying particular case studies. Surf this as a resource.
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Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) - 2 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 04 Nov 11
     
    For nearly any writing issue you're struggling with or want to improve, the OWL is a valuable resource. Search the site by what specific writing area you want to focus on and explore.
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Purdue OWL: MLA Formatting and Style Guide - 3 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 04 Nov 11
     
    The left navigation bar can serve as a guide to any specific formatting issues you may be struggling with when writing in MLA format.
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MLA Format Model Paper - 9 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 04 Nov 11
     
    Shared through Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab), this paper is a model for students struggling to write papers in MLA format. You can download the model.
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Proofreader's Marks - 0 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 04 Nov 11
     
    From Prentice Hall, a brief guide on proofreader's marks. Note that I use abbreviated Six Traits terms to focus on a given quality of your writing (I=Ideas, ORG=Organization, WC=Word Choice, SF=Sentence Fluency, VOI=Voice, and CON=Conventions). A check mark during a passage denotes a positive writing quality and may be followed by a proofreader mark. This lets you know what you're doing well, according to my point-of-view.
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Purdue OWL: "MLA Formatting Quotations" - 0 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 04 Nov 11
     
    A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.
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Small Businesses Embrace Social Media Background Checks | Fox Small Business Center - 0 views

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  • Mellitta Benning on 04 Nov 11
     
    This is jaut a counter arguemnt of the hiring process by business using the social netwrok... There are laws in place to protect people and buisness could be breaking that law
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Start-Up Handles Social Media Background Checks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Mellitta Benning on 04 Nov 11
     
    This is another great site that talks about how business are using the social network to do background checks on new hires
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Start-Up Handles Social Media Background Checks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Mellitta Benning on 04 Nov 11
     
    Great info on how to utiliz the socail network... Many buisness are using the social netwrok as a new hiring process...
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Socail networking goes corporate - 0 views

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  • Networking Goes Corporate
  • Mellitta Benning on 18 Sep 11
     
    Information on how the social network is being taken on by the business world and how it may affect many corporations. Also gives information on how business can now interact with there employee.
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How to Use Social Networking Sites to Drive Business | Inc.com - 0 views

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  • Mellitta Benning on 02 Nov 11
     
    This article gives key points on how to drive a buisness by using the socail network. This articla also gives key points , I can look into to see how buisness can utilize the social network ............
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Nearly 60% of Business Owners Use Social Media Tools to Communicate With Their Customer... - 0 views

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  • Nearly 60% of Business Owners Use Social Media Tools to Communicate With Their Customers
  • Mellitta Benning on 02 Nov 11
     
    this article shows how business use of marketing is good for the company. This article also has facts based off a survey they did to collect data.
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Social media revolution viewed as opportunity - 0 views

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    "Wellman said. Hooked into social media outlets, people are more willing to reveal their inner thoughts, personal musings and idiosyncratic performances to a wide audience." creditable source for research paper
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EasyBib: Free Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago citation styles - 1 views

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  • Billy Gerchick on 07 Oct 11
     
    Easy-to-use tool with free MLA citation software
  • Billy Gerchick on 07 Oct 11
     
    For those that want to get started citing resources on the actual semester paper.
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What is the History of Social Networking? :: Socialnetworking - 0 views

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  • Mellitta Benning on 01 Nov 11
     
    Very great site for paper .. this site gives a little history of social networking such as sixdegrees.com, one of the earliest social networking sites that existed.....
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Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags - 1 views

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  • the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links
  • The question ontology asks is: What kinds of things exist or can exist in the world, and what manner of relations can those things have to each other?
  • The periodic table of the elements is my vote for "Best. Classification. Evar.
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  • Dewey, 200: Religion 210 Natural theology 220 Bible 230 Christian theology 240 Christian moral & devotional theology 250 Christian orders & local church 260 Christian social theology 270 Christian church history 280 Christian sects & denominations 290 Other religions
  • Dewey, 200: Religion 210 Natural theology 220 Bible 230 Christian theology 240 Christian moral & devotional theology 250 Christian orders & local church 260 Christian social theology 270 Christian church history 280 Christian sects & denominations 290 Other religions
  • It is organized into non-overlapping categories that get more detailed at lower and lower levels -- any concept is supposed to fit in one category and in no other categories
  • The essence of a book isn't the ideas it contains. The essence of a book is "book." Thinking that library catalogs exist to organize concepts confuses the container for the thing contained.
  • hierarchy is a good way to manage physical objects
  • there is no shelf
  • Look what's happened here. Yahoo, faced with the possibility that they could organize things with no physical constraints, added the shelf back
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system
  • The charitable explanation for this is that they thought of this kind of a priori organization as their job, and as something their users would value. The uncharitable explanation is that they thought there was business value in determining the view the user would have to adopt to use the system .
  • if you've got enough links, you don't need the hierarchy anymore. There is no shelf. There is no file system. The links alone are enough. [ Just Links (There Is No Filesystem) ]
  • Browse versus search is a radical increase in the trust we put in link infrastructure, and in the degree of power derived from that link structure. Browse says the people making the ontology, the people doing the categorization, have the responsibility to organize the world in advance.
  • Search says that, at the moment that you are looking for it, we will do our best to service it based on this link structure, because we believe we can build a world where we don't need the hierarchy to coexist with the link structure.
  • You can also turn that list around. You can say "Here are some characteristics where ontological classification doesn't work well": Domain Large corpus No formal categories Unstable entities Unrestricted entities No clear edges Participants Uncoordinated users Amateur users Naive catalogers No Authority
  • where the people doing the categorizing believe, even if only unconciously, that naming the world changes it.
  • "Oh my god, that means you won't be introducing the movies people to the cinema people!" To which the obvious answer is "Good. The movie people don't want to hang out with the cinema people."
  • The problem is, because the cataloguers assume their classification should have force on the world, they underestimate the difficulty of understanding what users are thinking, and they overestimate the amount to which users will agree, either with one another or with the catalogers, about the best way to categorize. They also underestimate the loss from erasing difference of expression, and they overestimate loss from the lack of a thesaurus.
  • We pretend that 'country' refers to a physical area the same way 'city' does, but it's not true, as we know from places like the former Yugoslavia.
  • A: "This is a book about Dresden." B: "This is a book about Dresden, and it goes in the category 'East Germany'."
  • They're able to take my books in while ignoring my categories, because all my books have ISBN numbers, International Standard Book Numbers.
  • Now imagine a world where everything can have a unique identifier. This should be easy, since that's the world we currently live in -- the URL gives us a way to create a globally unique ID for anything we need to point to.
  • Now imagine a world where everything can have a unique identifier. This should be easy, since that's the world we currently live in -- the URL gives us a way to create a globally unique ID for anything we need to point to. Sometimes the pointers are direct, as when a URL points to the contents of a Web page. Sometimes they are indirect, as when you use an Amazon link to point to a book. Sometimes there are layers of indirection, as when you use a URI, a uniform resource identifier, to name something whose location is indeterminate. But the basic scheme gives us ways to create a globally unique identifier for anything. And once you can do that, anyone can label those pointers, can tag those URLs, in ways that make them more valuable, and all without requiring top-down organization schemes. And this -- an explosion in free-form labeling of links, followed by all sorts of ways of grabbing value from those labels -- is what I think is happening now.
  • Tags are simply labels for URLs, selected to help the user in later retrieval of those URLs. Tags have the additional effect of grouping related URLs together. There is no fixed set of categories or officially approved choices. You can use words, acronyms, numbers, whatever makes sense to you, without regard for anyone else's needs, interests, or requirements.
  • Tags are important mainly for what they leave out. By forgoing formal classification, tags enable a huge amount of user-produced organizational value, at vanishingly small cost.
  • gopher and the Web
  • And if you can find any way to create value from combining myriad amateur classifications over time, they will come to be more valuable than professional categorization schemes, particularly with regards to robustness and cost of creation.
  • because you can derive 'this is who this link is was tagged by' and 'this is when it was tagged, you can start to do inclusion and exclusion around people and time, not just tags. You can start to do grouping. You can start to do decay. "Roll up tags from just this group of users, I'd like to see what they are talking about" or "Give me all tags with this signature, but anything that's more than a week old or a year old."
  • With tagging, when there is signal loss, it comes from people not having any commonality in talking about things. The loss is from the multiplicity of points of view, rather than from compression around a single point of view.
  • Tagging, by contrast, gets better with scale. With a multiplicity of points of view the question isn't "Is everyone tagging any given link 'correctly'", but rather "Is anyone tagging it the way I do?
  • The Web has an editor, it's everybody.
  • the decision about which tags to use comes after the links have been tagged, not before.
  • This allows for partial, incomplete, or probabilistic merges that are better fits to uncertain environments -- such as the real world -- than rigid classification schemes.
  • You merge from the URLs, and then try and derive something about the categorization from there. This allows for partial, incomplete, or probabilistic merges that are better fits to uncertain environments -- such as the real world -- than rigid classification schemes.
  • Merges are Probabilistic, not Binary - Merges create partial overlap between tags, rather than defining tags as synonyms. Instead of saying that any given tag "is" or "is not" the same as another tag, del.icio.us is able to recommend related tags by saying "A lot of people who tagged this 'Mac' also tagged it 'OSX'." We move from a binary choice between saying two tags are the same or different to the Venn diagram option of "kind of is/somewhat is/sort of is/overlaps to this degree". That is a really profound change.
  • You can see there's a tag "to_read". A professional cataloguer would look at this tag in horror -- "This is context-dependent and temporary." Well, so was the category "East Germany." Once you expand your time scale to include the actual life of the categorization scheme itself, you recognize that the distinction between temporary and permanent is awfully vague. There isn't in fact a binary condition of a tag that can or cannot survive any kind of long-term examination.
  • It comes down ultimately to a question of philosophy. Does the world make sense or do we make sense of the world?
  • If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of value in aggregate, but you do it without an ontological goal. You do it without a goal of explicitly getting to or even closely matching some theoretically perfect view of the world.
  • "A lot of users tagging things foobar are also tagging them frobnitz. I'll tell the user foobar and frobnitz are related." It's up to the user to decide whether or not that recommendation is useful -- del.icio.us has no idea what the tags mean. The tag overlap is in the system, but the tag semantics are in the users. This is not a way to inject linguistic meaning into the machine.
  • Some of those categories are starting to look a little bit dated
  • Billy Gerchick on 07 Oct 11
     
    Informative piece on tagging as a method of categorizing information
  • Billy Gerchick on 07 Oct 11
     
    Fascinating article on tagging.
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Social Networking by Employees: Is It Any of Your Company's Business? - 0 views

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  • There are federal laws in place that control aspects of monitoring employee activity on the Internet, as well as common law and even Constitutional protections in some jurisdictions (such as California) that protect privacy.
  • Confidentiality — Intentionally or unintentionally, network exchanges may reveal confidential company information, as well as confidential information of a company’s customers or clients. Such information could even include trade secrets that a company or its customers/clients have gone to great lengths to protect.
  • Mellitta Benning on 03 Oct 11
     
    This article gives a break down of what the laws are with social networking . Also gives a little information on what the issues are with social networking in a business such as discrimination, time management etc...
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Research on Social Network Sites - 0 views

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  • Mellitta Benning on 24 Oct 11
     
    THIS IS A GREAT SITE FOR TERTIARY RESEARCH, THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY HAS LOTS OF GOOD SOURCES TO LOOK INTO.
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