Thursday, June 24, 2010
BUSY BUSY BUSY
YOOO! I am so tired, I’ve been working since morning, not just working but working very, very hard. We been trying to finish the story board and also write our long period which is about 50 pages. I have been editing and typing all day long. The whole group has been busy, there hasn’t been any time to rest. Most of the group members didn’t take their tea breaks because we were trying to save time.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
It was the 23 of June 2010
Story board day.... we are already done with the task that we were expected to do but more work still lays ahead. We still got a story board to do and also write a report... thank God because our wiki is update and so it will be of much help to us in our report. We are still asking ourselves if the report that we have to write now is the same report that we have to submit to DR Nish Sewdass.
Today I mostly work on the wiki. We were changing some information to be more scientific, not just academic or business related since CSIR is a scientific research company. Fixing things in the wiki was not as easy as anyone would think; it’s difficult to work on it, I can say that it isn’t user friendly. But we finally managed to fix where we could and left some of the things that we couldn’t.
Today I mostly work on the wiki. We were changing some information to be more scientific, not just academic or business related since CSIR is a scientific research company. Fixing things in the wiki was not as easy as anyone would think; it’s difficult to work on it, I can say that it isn’t user friendly. But we finally managed to fix where we could and left some of the things that we couldn’t.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tuesday the 22nd
Work, work, work. Today was not so hectic after all. In our schedule, this day was actually set apart for the workshop and to our advantage the workshop lasted until lunch time. So we had time to go back and do our work, as for me I was busy re-working on the work I did for the past week.
The appreciative knowledge workshop was beautiful..... Everything was up to standard, the team members were organised and they knew what they were doing. I learned a lot. For some people who had never done any public speaking, that t workshop was their platform. It was mind opening to a lot of us and very informative. Now I know what I want concerning my career and I have a positive view about my future. aah I loved it.
It was not as hard as I had some basic work to work on. And at the end of the day me and Phyllis had to post our work in the wiki and I should tell you that is not an easy thing to do. You need to know what you are doing. I saw DR Sewdass' lecture on the wikis come to life. I then had to apply my knowledge.
Thank CSIR you for showing me that what I am learning in class is not just a waste of time. Now I know that all the things I am being taught do apply in the corporate world.
The appreciative knowledge workshop was beautiful..... Everything was up to standard, the team members were organised and they knew what they were doing. I learned a lot. For some people who had never done any public speaking, that t workshop was their platform. It was mind opening to a lot of us and very informative. Now I know what I want concerning my career and I have a positive view about my future. aah I loved it.
It was not as hard as I had some basic work to work on. And at the end of the day me and Phyllis had to post our work in the wiki and I should tell you that is not an easy thing to do. You need to know what you are doing. I saw DR Sewdass' lecture on the wikis come to life. I then had to apply my knowledge.
Thank CSIR you for showing me that what I am learning in class is not just a waste of time. Now I know that all the things I am being taught do apply in the corporate world.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Monday 21/6/10 CSIRIS Work
Today was a very great day for our team. We were working at the CSIR campus, so our prayers have been answered. We started working as soon as the other group left to do their work outside the campus. As I had done my research on Friday, today was more like a day for me to structure my work. It took me the whole day to do that, believe me it’s not easy. I had to make sense of the data I gathered on Friday. It was more like processing the data to create information that will be useful to the CSIR.
This is the work that I did for today:
Push technology, another major Internet technology, minimizes the problems of pull technology. It is defined as the software that enables Internet, Intranet, and Extranet users to customize automatic delivery of information directly to their computers from a variety of sources (Levitt, 1997). Push distributes the information proactively via the Internet infrastructure
Push technology is a new device that is used to transmit important information to the users. It does not only send information to the users but also attracts customers that are interested in more information, not only the titles and its reach can enormously increase the exposure of the library or research center to its customers. Push technology is actually a change from spending too much time pulling unwanted information from the internet to spending too much time looking through unwanted and questionable information.
They assist in managing information for the users, content providers, and network administrators. It works with all sorts of data, including video and audio. It's fairly inexpensive and also very easy to use. They also assist individuals and companies in information overload, it also prevents lack of information since information is automatically sent to the end user’s desktop.
Push technology is extolled--it's energetic; it's resourceful and most important, it's pushy, the perfect trait in today's information-intense environment. It can compete with literally millions of information sources to grasp the attention of clients since it's right there on their desktops.
Push technology, another major Internet technology, minimizes the problems of pull technology. It is defined as the software that enables Internet, Intranet, and Extranet users to customize automatic delivery of information directly to their computers from a variety of sources (Levitt, 1997). Push distributes the information proactively via the Internet infrastructure
Push technology is a new device that is used to transmit important information to the users. It does not only send information to the users but also attracts customers that are interested in more information, not only the titles and its reach can enormously increase the exposure of the library or research center to its customers. Push technology is actually a change from spending too much time pulling unwanted information from the internet to spending too much time looking through unwanted and questionable information.
They assist in managing information for the users, content providers, and network administrators. It works with all sorts of data, including video and audio. It's fairly inexpensive and also very easy to use. They also assist individuals and companies in information overload, it also prevents lack of information since information is automatically sent to the end user’s desktop.
Push technology is extolled--it's energetic; it's resourceful and most important, it's pushy, the perfect trait in today's information-intense environment. It can compete with literally millions of information sources to grasp the attention of clients since its right there on their desktops.
Some of the significant firms in the push technology field are:
• PointCast. It functions as a “screen saver,” popping up after the PC has been idle for a while, and displaying the user’s selected channels as windows, boxes, and scrolling messages. Channels that are available in the PointCast are--the Los Angeles Times, CNN Interactive, TechWeb, and Lifestyles and more.
• BackWeb. Their products are similar to the products that PointCast offers and also provides software for intranets and “extranets.” They issue software updates online.
• Marímba. This product can also be used for software distribution.
• Netscape. This comprises of Marímba’s Castanet technology.
• Microsoft. It is adding push features to new generations of its operating systems products and “Internet Explorer” browser, and has proposed a standard for push technology, called Channel Definition Format (CDF)
• Intel. Intel is leading a pushrelated effort called “Intercast.” Intercast merges Web pages with television
Technological Medias that make use of push technologies.
• CNET
• Wired
• InfoWorld
• Slashdot
• CNN
• BBC
• McAfee Associates, they are developing an application using BackWeb's push technology to keep customers' anti-virus programs current.
Some advantages of push technologies
• It allows secure delivery of dynamic content directly to the desktops of a pre-determined and intended group of recipients in real time without even requiring them to open a Web browser. This feature is useful in delivering time-sensitive information, such as news, stock quote, current inventory level, changes in prices, and new product offering (Maddox, 1997; Moeller, 1997; Rivlin, 1997).
• It allows customization. Individual receivers can receive messages personalized by the system to meet his or her needs. The information they receive is only the information that they signed up for and nothing more
• It enables the delivery of information only to the intended recipients. It enhances safety and reduces the risk of revealing insightful information to others. Provide users’ information meet their preferences
• It keeps a log that informs the sender that the recipient has received the information and viewed it. This feature assists the dispatcher to know the errors in message delivery and prevent resulting problems and the dispatcher may attempt sending the information again.
• It can automatically distribute new applications and data files. This increases scalability and automates software applications distribution leading to the reduction in the total cost of ownership (Aragon, 1997; Rivlin, 1997).
• It automates client system maintenance. It allows the clients to manage the software. It automatically sends upgrades to all the users immediately the upgrade is available through the network and installs on their computers without the users even knowing it. This feature is very useful since it ensures that the clients always use the latest software. It is also useful to users that don’t really have experience with software and upgrades.
The push software:
• Connects users to the Internet
• Browses the databases and Web sites of participating researchers and scientists
• Downloads updated information
• Formats the information into a pre-chosen format such as a screensaver or ticker tape
• Pushes the information onto a subscriber's PC screen
• Disconnects from the Internet
• Gives the subscriber a mechanism to either read the data
• offline or re-connect directly to the data on the Internet
Later on during the afternoon, our co-ordinator came in to our office to give us feedback on the work that we did so far. She corrected a lot of mistakes that we made and also reminded us that the CSIR is a scientific research organisation thus our research should be more focused on scientific information. And that actually meant that we had to re-work on the findings. It’s going to be a long week I tell you.
This is the work that I did for today:
Push technology, another major Internet technology, minimizes the problems of pull technology. It is defined as the software that enables Internet, Intranet, and Extranet users to customize automatic delivery of information directly to their computers from a variety of sources (Levitt, 1997). Push distributes the information proactively via the Internet infrastructure
Push technology is a new device that is used to transmit important information to the users. It does not only send information to the users but also attracts customers that are interested in more information, not only the titles and its reach can enormously increase the exposure of the library or research center to its customers. Push technology is actually a change from spending too much time pulling unwanted information from the internet to spending too much time looking through unwanted and questionable information.
They assist in managing information for the users, content providers, and network administrators. It works with all sorts of data, including video and audio. It's fairly inexpensive and also very easy to use. They also assist individuals and companies in information overload, it also prevents lack of information since information is automatically sent to the end user’s desktop.
Push technology is extolled--it's energetic; it's resourceful and most important, it's pushy, the perfect trait in today's information-intense environment. It can compete with literally millions of information sources to grasp the attention of clients since it's right there on their desktops.
Push technology, another major Internet technology, minimizes the problems of pull technology. It is defined as the software that enables Internet, Intranet, and Extranet users to customize automatic delivery of information directly to their computers from a variety of sources (Levitt, 1997). Push distributes the information proactively via the Internet infrastructure
Push technology is a new device that is used to transmit important information to the users. It does not only send information to the users but also attracts customers that are interested in more information, not only the titles and its reach can enormously increase the exposure of the library or research center to its customers. Push technology is actually a change from spending too much time pulling unwanted information from the internet to spending too much time looking through unwanted and questionable information.
They assist in managing information for the users, content providers, and network administrators. It works with all sorts of data, including video and audio. It's fairly inexpensive and also very easy to use. They also assist individuals and companies in information overload, it also prevents lack of information since information is automatically sent to the end user’s desktop.
Push technology is extolled--it's energetic; it's resourceful and most important, it's pushy, the perfect trait in today's information-intense environment. It can compete with literally millions of information sources to grasp the attention of clients since its right there on their desktops.
Some of the significant firms in the push technology field are:
• PointCast. It functions as a “screen saver,” popping up after the PC has been idle for a while, and displaying the user’s selected channels as windows, boxes, and scrolling messages. Channels that are available in the PointCast are--the Los Angeles Times, CNN Interactive, TechWeb, and Lifestyles and more.
• BackWeb. Their products are similar to the products that PointCast offers and also provides software for intranets and “extranets.” They issue software updates online.
• Marímba. This product can also be used for software distribution.
• Netscape. This comprises of Marímba’s Castanet technology.
• Microsoft. It is adding push features to new generations of its operating systems products and “Internet Explorer” browser, and has proposed a standard for push technology, called Channel Definition Format (CDF)
• Intel. Intel is leading a pushrelated effort called “Intercast.” Intercast merges Web pages with television
Technological Medias that make use of push technologies.
• CNET
• Wired
• InfoWorld
• Slashdot
• CNN
• BBC
• McAfee Associates, they are developing an application using BackWeb's push technology to keep customers' anti-virus programs current.
Some advantages of push technologies
• It allows secure delivery of dynamic content directly to the desktops of a pre-determined and intended group of recipients in real time without even requiring them to open a Web browser. This feature is useful in delivering time-sensitive information, such as news, stock quote, current inventory level, changes in prices, and new product offering (Maddox, 1997; Moeller, 1997; Rivlin, 1997).
• It allows customization. Individual receivers can receive messages personalized by the system to meet his or her needs. The information they receive is only the information that they signed up for and nothing more
• It enables the delivery of information only to the intended recipients. It enhances safety and reduces the risk of revealing insightful information to others. Provide users’ information meet their preferences
• It keeps a log that informs the sender that the recipient has received the information and viewed it. This feature assists the dispatcher to know the errors in message delivery and prevent resulting problems and the dispatcher may attempt sending the information again.
• It can automatically distribute new applications and data files. This increases scalability and automates software applications distribution leading to the reduction in the total cost of ownership (Aragon, 1997; Rivlin, 1997).
• It automates client system maintenance. It allows the clients to manage the software. It automatically sends upgrades to all the users immediately the upgrade is available through the network and installs on their computers without the users even knowing it. This feature is very useful since it ensures that the clients always use the latest software. It is also useful to users that don’t really have experience with software and upgrades.
The push software:
• Connects users to the Internet
• Browses the databases and Web sites of participating researchers and scientists
• Downloads updated information
• Formats the information into a pre-chosen format such as a screensaver or ticker tape
• Pushes the information onto a subscriber's PC screen
• Disconnects from the Internet
• Gives the subscriber a mechanism to either read the data
• offline or re-connect directly to the data on the Internet
Later on during the afternoon, our co-ordinator came in to our office to give us feedback on the work that we did so far. She corrected a lot of mistakes that we made and also reminded us that the CSIR is a scientific research organisation thus our research should be more focused on scientific information. And that actually meant that we had to re-work on the findings. It’s going to be a long week I tell you.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Friday afternoon
It is a great day! It is a Friday which means it is the last day at tukies. Next week we are going to work at the CSIR....yeah! It’s back to the corporate world, dressing smart and feeling the pressure.
Today was a very busy day for me. It was more like I was browsing the net and gathering a lot of information. I used a lot of information from ebscohost. I read more or less eighty articles and I found a lot of useful information.
We started on a new task. We had to provide and analyse examples where the technologies that we previously worked on have been implemented by research communities in virtual knowledge spaces. This is some of the information that I acquired:
Examples of push technologies
• Synchronous conferencing
This is the type of push technology that is more focused on online chat. It is a computer mediated communication that researchers and other client can effectively use to share knowledge and learn something new. Synchronous conferencing is rarely also signify audio/video conferencing or instant messaging systems, given they provide a text-based multi-user chat function
• Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) is a collection of technologies used for real-time text-based communication between two or more participants over the Internet, or other types of networks. Of importance is that online chat and instant messaging differs from other technologies such as e-mail due to the perceived synchronicity of the communications by the users –chat happens in real-time
• Email
Stay in the loop with push-delivery technology, which instantly alerts you via your BlackBerry and other smart phones when messages are sent to any of your personal and business-based email addresses.
• BlackBerry
Black berry has the capability to proactively convey, or “push”, data to BlackBerry devices. BlackBerry Push Technology has been used to push emails to users and to coordinate calendar information.
• PointCast Network
It tenders services to publishers, as well as CNN, CNNfn, Time, Reuters, and Business Wire, among others. It also supplies a good selection of channels an important distinction with push technology because users often subscribe to the channels, not to the publications themselves. Their channels include News, Companies, Industries, Pathfinder, and more.
• RSS
RSS allows the clients or users to easily stay informed by retrieving new information from the sites that they are interested in are interested in. it actually saves time; one does not have to visit each site individually. RSS also ensures the customer’s privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter.
• Back web
It is an internet delivery platform. BackWeb includes WSJ Interactive among its sources, but not much else in terms of business news. It drives content to client such as news, stock quotes and virus and software upgrades.
• Headliner
Headliner is a technology that is nearer to PointCast in terms of publishing quality, with a large variety of stock quotes, news, political, and financial sources, together with Reuters and CNN. It is more flexible than PointCast since it allows users to subscribe to channels and precise publications and to explore keywords that emerge from latest headlines.
Some Problems with push technologies:
• Once installed, it never seems to go away
• It sometimes crashes PCs
• Ties up phone lines (a huge problem for home offices
• Uses huge chunks of disk space
• Pops up on the PC screen every time you turn around
• Even after it's uninstalled, little pieces stick around tying up disk space and causing weird little glitches on your PC
I learned a lot taday from my group mates.They are hard working and dedicated. I am very inspired by their commitment, one could swear that we have someone on our back pushing us. BIG UPS TEAM!!!!!
Today was a very busy day for me. It was more like I was browsing the net and gathering a lot of information. I used a lot of information from ebscohost. I read more or less eighty articles and I found a lot of useful information.
We started on a new task. We had to provide and analyse examples where the technologies that we previously worked on have been implemented by research communities in virtual knowledge spaces. This is some of the information that I acquired:
Examples of push technologies
• Synchronous conferencing
This is the type of push technology that is more focused on online chat. It is a computer mediated communication that researchers and other client can effectively use to share knowledge and learn something new. Synchronous conferencing is rarely also signify audio/video conferencing or instant messaging systems, given they provide a text-based multi-user chat function
• Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) is a collection of technologies used for real-time text-based communication between two or more participants over the Internet, or other types of networks. Of importance is that online chat and instant messaging differs from other technologies such as e-mail due to the perceived synchronicity of the communications by the users –chat happens in real-time
Stay in the loop with push-delivery technology, which instantly alerts you via your BlackBerry and other smart phones when messages are sent to any of your personal and business-based email addresses.
• BlackBerry
Black berry has the capability to proactively convey, or “push”, data to BlackBerry devices. BlackBerry Push Technology has been used to push emails to users and to coordinate calendar information.
• PointCast Network
It tenders services to publishers, as well as CNN, CNNfn, Time, Reuters, and Business Wire, among others. It also supplies a good selection of channels an important distinction with push technology because users often subscribe to the channels, not to the publications themselves. Their channels include News, Companies, Industries, Pathfinder, and more.
• RSS
RSS allows the clients or users to easily stay informed by retrieving new information from the sites that they are interested in are interested in. it actually saves time; one does not have to visit each site individually. RSS also ensures the customer’s privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter.
• Back web
It is an internet delivery platform. BackWeb includes WSJ Interactive among its sources, but not much else in terms of business news. It drives content to client such as news, stock quotes and virus and software upgrades.
• Headliner
Headliner is a technology that is nearer to PointCast in terms of publishing quality, with a large variety of stock quotes, news, political, and financial sources, together with Reuters and CNN. It is more flexible than PointCast since it allows users to subscribe to channels and precise publications and to explore keywords that emerge from latest headlines.
Some Problems with push technologies:
• Once installed, it never seems to go away
• It sometimes crashes PCs
• Ties up phone lines (a huge problem for home offices
• Uses huge chunks of disk space
• Pops up on the PC screen every time you turn around
• Even after it's uninstalled, little pieces stick around tying up disk space and causing weird little glitches on your PC
I learned a lot taday from my group mates.They are hard working and dedicated. I am very inspired by their commitment, one could swear that we have someone on our back pushing us. BIG UPS TEAM!!!!!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Thursday the 17th. 2months axactly after my 21st
It was a normal working day and the last day to complete task two, so there was a lot of pressure as we wanted to finish off the work before the end of the day. I lost all the work I did on Tuesday...ALL THANKS TO THE FLASH AND ITS VIRUSES. I had to start afresh and search for information on research 2.0 and do proper referencing which is not easy, I tell u. now I understand why the asked us to blog our pieces of work daily. If I had been obedient and blogged on Tuesday (15/06/10), I wouldn't have lost my work nor juggle two tasks in one day. I managed to recap on the work, so I was actually juggling two tasks in one day.
I had to research on research 2.0 technology and this is what I found:
Research 2.0 (aka e-Science or e-Research) refers to new approaches, techniques and tools to support collaborative research efforts taking profit of new Information Technologies. From an historical point of view, Research 2.0 can be considered as an evolution of Small Research (aka Research 1.0) and then Big Research (aka Research 1.5). In terms of goals, Research 2.0 lies however between Small and Big Research: through unprecedented means of connectivity, computing power, storage space, and tool versatility/flexibility, Research 2.0 adds scalability to Small Research but also agility to Big Research. Simply put, Research 2.0 allows emerging and supple groups of researchers to communicate collaborate, share scientific information and scientific tools in new modes. (Planet-research20, 2010)
Research 2.0 can then be seen as a threat and an opportunity, depending on who uses it and how it is valued. The employees need to also use it on their daily jobs. They need to be familiar with it. It is only effective when it is used. It can also be a threat if the competitors use it effectively.
Research 2.0 finds savings insight by taking basic industry research on up-and-coming technology markets and companies and applying financial investment and stock market knowledge.
The traditional view of quantitative market research is to construct a questionnaire with a set of structured questions, a set of replies and a well defined routing structure, with probable restrictions placed on the number of responses to each question. The reasons for such an approach are quite justified but perhaps we should start to think differently. Should our research always be so structured? How do we harness that huge resource of comment and discussion that is generated by forums, social networking sites and blogs? Is Second Life just sad or a real opportunity? (Snap surveys, 2010)
The two techniques of Research 2.0 are:
• MROC (Marketing Research Online Community)
• Social Media Research
I learned that research 2.0 exists from web 2.0 technologies. Researchers actually use the web 2.0 technologies to facilitate research, for example researchers could use face book, wikis, blogs and second life to facilitate their research and share their knowledge with other people.
I had to research on research 2.0 technology and this is what I found:
Research 2.0 (aka e-Science or e-Research) refers to new approaches, techniques and tools to support collaborative research efforts taking profit of new Information Technologies. From an historical point of view, Research 2.0 can be considered as an evolution of Small Research (aka Research 1.0) and then Big Research (aka Research 1.5). In terms of goals, Research 2.0 lies however between Small and Big Research: through unprecedented means of connectivity, computing power, storage space, and tool versatility/flexibility, Research 2.0 adds scalability to Small Research but also agility to Big Research. Simply put, Research 2.0 allows emerging and supple groups of researchers to communicate collaborate, share scientific information and scientific tools in new modes. (Planet-research20, 2010)
Research 2.0 can then be seen as a threat and an opportunity, depending on who uses it and how it is valued. The employees need to also use it on their daily jobs. They need to be familiar with it. It is only effective when it is used. It can also be a threat if the competitors use it effectively.
Research 2.0 finds savings insight by taking basic industry research on up-and-coming technology markets and companies and applying financial investment and stock market knowledge.
The traditional view of quantitative market research is to construct a questionnaire with a set of structured questions, a set of replies and a well defined routing structure, with probable restrictions placed on the number of responses to each question. The reasons for such an approach are quite justified but perhaps we should start to think differently. Should our research always be so structured? How do we harness that huge resource of comment and discussion that is generated by forums, social networking sites and blogs? Is Second Life just sad or a real opportunity? (Snap surveys, 2010)
The two techniques of Research 2.0 are:
• MROC (Marketing Research Online Community)
• Social Media Research
I learned that research 2.0 exists from web 2.0 technologies. Researchers actually use the web 2.0 technologies to facilitate research, for example researchers could use face book, wikis, blogs and second life to facilitate their research and share their knowledge with other people.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Day 1 at tukies
It was a lovely and cold day. It was a perfect condition to stay in doors and do some work. i never took any tea break or any lunch time since i could not go outside and have some food. note: no food allowed in the informatorium labs.
I worked all the time, trying to finish yesterday's task and also embark on today's task which needs to be delivered on thursday. We had to investigate web 2.0/ social media tools and technologies and indicate what the purpose of each technology is and when it should be used. That was so much of a problem since i was farmilaliar with the work. DR Nish introduced us to that.....
Me and Musole had to define RESEARCH 2.0 and our overall findings are going to be included in the next blog. Today I also learned to be descplined at work aven if there is no coordinator. It was good working with my team members seeing that they are dedicated and they love their work..
I worked all the time, trying to finish yesterday's task and also embark on today's task which needs to be delivered on thursday. We had to investigate web 2.0/ social media tools and technologies and indicate what the purpose of each technology is and when it should be used. That was so much of a problem since i was farmilaliar with the work. DR Nish introduced us to that.....
Me and Musole had to define RESEARCH 2.0 and our overall findings are going to be included in the next blog. Today I also learned to be descplined at work aven if there is no coordinator. It was good working with my team members seeing that they are dedicated and they love their work..
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