Alayna Avery

I think this class has served as a good reminder that the world is always changing. Looking forward I’d like to continue to take the time to reflect on these changes and their underlying benefits, costs, motivations (it flows from the value proposition, as someone notes above). Often people fear new things, but my hope is that into the future…[Read more]

Knowledge management is a difficult concept to explain, because it can mean so many different things to different people and organizations. At its heart knowledge management is concerned with enabling individuals, teams and entire organizations to collectively and systematically create, share and apply knowledge in an effort to better achieve…[Read more]

I’m happy to see many companies putting greater emphasis on building secure software solutions proactively – treating securing customer data as a cost of doing business for themselves. How effective these systems are is another question. Security systems are temporary solutions and should be treated as such. People will continually be looking for…[Read more]

I think you make a good point, Asher, despite how secure you may feel storing your money online there will be people trying to break into this information. I think something that makes me feel more secure in financial technology is the commitment I’ve seen companies make in terms of investing resources to safeguarding against cyber attacks – as…[Read more]

Yes and yes! For as long as we’ve been trying to keep our money safe people have looked for ways to commit fraud, though. The lower cost of technology has certainly made it easier for people to participate in online theft, think about the tools you would need to commit check fraud, for example, prior to the invention of the laser printer but e…[Read more]

It’s clear that the Internet has opened up a new path for authors to bring their material to market in a way that was otherwise unavailable to the public. In the past publishers acted as gatekeepers, seen as those who sorted good writing from bad, now taste making has fallen in part, to the public — we have the option of “grading” liter…[Read more]

Recently I’ve fallen in love with a collaboration tool called Trello.

Trello is a free site that aims to help you organize anything you’d like – through the tool projects represented by boards which allow you to break down trips, papers, presentations, etc. into multiple lists and cards (cards are the basic unit of a board).

If you’r…[Read more]