Please join the MIS department, IBIT, and AMIS at the tenth anniversary celebration and tenth annual Fox IT awards reception, on April 13, 2010. To attend you must register on the special site at: http://ibit.temple.edu/itawards. Be sure to check out and contribute your tenth anniversary comments on this site!
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e-portfolio contest
Win a $100 Amazon gift certificate!
Submit your entry to the foxmis e-portfolio contest! The deadline for entry is Wednesday March 31st, 2010 at Midnight. The top two entries will receive Amazon gift certificates. The winner will be highlighted at the Fox IT Awards reception. For additional details and contest rules, please visit the new Fox MIS e-portfolio site and click on the e-portfolio contest page.
New course on social media
MIS 3580: Innovating with Social Media: Facebook, Flash, Blogs and Wikipedia. Tues., Thur., 12:30pm-1:50pm. Learn the concepts and principles related to new business models supported by innovative use of Web 2.0 and social media while gaining hands on experience in social media applications. For more information contact, Dr. Steven L. Johnson (steven@temple.edu).
AMIS is inducted as the first student chapter of AIS
The Association of Management Information Systems (AMIS) was inducted as the first and founding student chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). In recognition of the contribution of the Fox MIS community in leading the formation of student chapters, AMIS was the first chapter to be inducted into AIS at a special ceremony on December 16, 2009, in Phoenix, Arizona as part of the International Conference on Information Systems.
Youngjin Yoo and Paul Pavlou receive Fox School research awards
MIS faculty members Youngjin Yoo and Paul Pavlou were recognized for their research contributions at the Fox School’s 11th Annual Research Roundtable & Teaching Awards Ceremony, on October 23, 2009. Professor Yoo and Pavlou received awards and were listed in the Fox School’s Top Ten Research Honor Roll for 2008-2009.
Adam Alalouf wins Fox MIS e-portfolio contest
Adam Alalouf’s e-portfolio was selected by Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, as the winning submission in the Fox MIS e-portfolio contest! Check out the winning entry: Adam Alalouf e-portfolio. Adam received a $200 Amazon gift certificate for his winning submission. Molly Benson was declared the runner-up and received a $50 gift certificate.
Angelika Dimoka organizes workshop on neuroscience and information systems
Angelika Dimoka, Assistant Professor of Marketing and Management Information Systems organized a retreat on NeuroIS – the use of neuroimaging tools and theories to better understand the development and use of information and communication technologies in organizations and society. Recently, there has been an explosion in the use of brain imaging tools to study social sciences. Scientists in economics, psychology, and marketing, have teamed up with neuroscientists to examine a variety of phenomena and have made notable advances in understanding decision making and human behavior.
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Michael Dell speaks with Fox MIS students
Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive of Dell Inc., visited Temple’s Fox School of Business on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. Dell was greeted at an informal reception with faculty members and university officials before he met with a select group of Fox School Management Information Systems (MIS) students. A large question-and-answer session followed in the auditorium of Alter Hall, the new state-of-theart home of the Fox School. Read the full article on the Fox School website.
New e-portfolio and e-resume contest
Win a $200 Amazon gift certificate! Shake hands with the creator of WordPress – Matt Mullenweg.
Submit your entry to the foxmis e-portfolio and e-resume contest! The deadline for entry is Sunday October 18th at Midnight. Enter the contest by submitting the URL of your entry as a comment to this post. The top three entries will receive Amazon gift certificates and will meet Matt when he visits the Fox School on October 21, 2009. Matt will select the final winner. For additional details and contest rules, please visit the e-portfolio contest page.
Youngjin Yoo receives NSF grant to study virtual work in design projects
Dr. Youngjin Yoo was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how organizations working on design projects virtualize their work using a mix of virtual and physical elements. The $127,260 award is titled Collaborative Research: Virtualization of work capabilities in project based organizations.
As part of the project, Professor Yoo will conduct longitudinal analysis of four organizations (Intel, Parker Hannifin, Mortenson Construction, and Ford) through interviews, surveys, and observations. Using the data, he will develop a new notation that captures how virtual and physical elements are intermixed in forming design practices in these organizations and further show how those these practices evolve over time.
