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Fox MIS Community Update 2011

 Fox MIS Community Update May 2012

The FOX MIS community grows stronger every day and now has 2562 unique blogs, 3808 registered students, faculty, staff, and alumni members and 947 active e-portfolios. Since January 2009, 9,936 posts, 25,815 comments, and more than 100 courses have been generated on the site. According to Google Analytics, since March 2011, more than a hundred thousand (105,131) unique visitors have viewed the site.  

Social Education at Temple University, Fox School of BusinessThe community is based on the FOX MIS community platform, a set of software tools and templates based on WordPress and BuddyPress which enable social education – a concept that integrates learning, teaching, professional development, placement, administration, and socialization by applying social media and Web 2.0 concepts.

The FOX MIS community platform implements the social education concept by enabling connections, community building, and content management. Every member – student, faculty, and staff – is a socially connected content generator and manager. In social education, the FOX MIS community becomes an important part of the day-to-day life of the student and fits between their Facebook (friends and family) and their LinkedIn community (formal professional connections).

FOX MIS Community Statistics December 2011During the period, November 01, 2011 to December 01, 2011, the main site received 12,706 unique visitors with a total of 25,713 visits, and 81,115 page views. Each visitor spent an average of about 4 minutes on the site and 43% of the visitors were new for that month. 45% of the visitors found the site through a search engine while about 37% directly entered the URL. The most frequently used identifiable search term was “foxmis”. The most frequently visited page was the home page, followed by the login page, and then the grade book page.

The pattern is somewhat different from six months ago: During the period April 01, 2011 to May 01, 2011 the site received 8,902 unique visitors, with a total of 22,754 visits, and 66,420 page views. Each visitor spent an average of about 4 minutes on the site and about 33% of the visitors were new that month. 37% of the visitors found the site through a search engine with about 46% entering a direct URL. The most frequently used identifiable search term was also “foxmis”. The most frequently visited page was still the home page followed by the grade book page.

Note: The above statistics are only for the main blog, they do not include the 2000+ other blogs on the site.

Learn more about the FOX MIS Community project.

 

Get jobs and internships by managing your digital identity and the new portfolio concept

FoxMIS e-portfolioA quick Google and Facebook search is all it takes to learn a lot about a person or a firm. Branding was always important for large firms but now each individual and every firm is a ‘brand’ – and that brand or digital identity will directly impact your career and job search. Students are particularly vulnerable to ‘branding’ (both positive and negative) because you come to college with at least a ‘Facebook’ brand. The MIS Community site offers a number of new tools that you can use to take charge of your brand and participate in the overall community.

E-portfolios

An e-portfolio, also known as an electronic resume, is a collection of documents about your individual skill sets and body of work. You can use an e-portfolio to actively control and manage your digital identity and reputation so that you can get the best job and internship. The e-portfolio is intended to be more formal than a Facebook page but more creative and open than a LinkedIn page. E-portfolios are a required assignment in MIS 2101 starting in fall 2011 and as part of that we are now ready to roll out version 2 of the e-portfolio concept:

  • New custom design student e-portfolio themes with detailed instructions and templates and a list of common mistakes. Are you still using the old student theme from last year?
  • New workshops and tutorials (stay tuned for announcements)
  • A redesigned e-portfolio site through which students can easily submit e-portfolios’ for listing (for prospective employers)
  • A new search engine for employers to locate students. The search engine uses profile fields to show status, interest, type of job, skills and other relevant criteria. To show up in this search engine, you must submit your e-portfolio for listing per the above. If you have already listed your e-portfolio see below on how you can update your status and profile.Fox MIS eportfolio simple

Profile fields

Fox MIS Community Site Profile FieldsProfile fields are a key element of social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn – this is how people find you, learn your status, and how the software automatically suggests new contacts. Profile fields can serve a career placement function when they are used with e-portfolios to quickly find people based on employment status, looking for a job or not, looking for full-time or part-time jobs, experience, type of job interest (e.g., developer vs. analyst), and skills and interests (e.g., auditing, cyber-security, social media, etc.). Profiles about each person are also relevant to us as members of the extended MIS community – the above information is what binds us together professionally and is different from what we would normally use to identify people at the Facebook (if we limit it to friends and family) and LinkedIn (if we limit it to established career networking) levels.

The FoxMIS community site profile fields are now fully enabled and set up. You can set your profile by logging in to the site, clicking on ‘My Account’ at the top of the screen and then selecting ‘Profile’ and ‘Edit Profile.’ On the resulting screen, click on ‘Professional Details’ to set your profile. There you will see two parts that you need to update—base and professional details. You can ignore all the fields that are not relevant to you. What is exciting is that once you have for example, selected a particular skill or interest, you can later click on that item and see all the people who are interested in that area. That moves us closer to being a real community!

Analytics

Analytics provides the tools to evaluate the results of designing digital identities and a feedback loop back into search engine optimization (SEO) and reputation management. The MIS Community site is setup to use Google Analytics which will allow you to see the ‘hits’ you are generating on your e-portfolio and the demographics of where those hits are coming from. You will learn how to use Google Analytics in MIS 2101. If you have already taken MIS 2101, please contact one of your professors who can provide you with the information on how to setup Google Analytics.

Coming soon – Portfolio requirement and an achievement and point system

In a completely flat world, how do you gain recognition? What can we do to further support the best students? We are working on implementing a portfolio requirement (initially only for the MIS major) that is based on a point system modeled on the ‘achievement and status’ metaphor used by gaming sites and like everything else we do – it will be on the MIS community site, completely open, and flat.

A portfolio requirement means that the student completes a series of tasks and activities outside of regular class work as part of their graduation requirement. Potential portfolio requirements include both micro and macro level tasks such as:

  • An internship, project-based internship, or service learning
  • An e-portfolio including online resume and online projects
  • Updated profile fields on the MIS community site
  • Completing workshops offered by the Center for Student Professional Development (CSPD)
  • Posting comments across class sites
  • Participation in activities of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)
  • A final project that is eligible for awards and seed money funding

Students will be required to achieve point levels through online, off-line, departmental, AIS, and school wide activities before they can progress through the curriculum and the points will be maintained and highlighted online. We will be soliciting input from students (through AIS) to finalize the list above.

Digital Marketing Minor

Digital MarketingInteractive digital marketing spending in the U.S. is growing exponentially. Areas such as retail, financials, B2B, travel, high-tech, automotive, health, consumer goods, media and entertainment, and telecommunications are responding by creating new multidisciplinary occupations that did not exist before. Leading-edge employers demand that students understand the integration of marketing activities with digital technology and analytics.

The Digital Marketing minor prepares students for careers related to customer relationship management, social media, information architecture, e-commerce, search engine optimization, e-detailing, site design, Internet research, demographic and sales analytics, blogging, and media design.

Digital MarketingThe Digital Marketing minor is appropriate for all BBA students in the Fox School of Business and is particularly relevant for Marketing, Human Resource Management, Business Management, and MIS students. 

The Digital Marketing Minor is a joint program offered by the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, and the Department of Management Information Systems.

BENEFITS OF THE DIGITAL MARKETING MINOR

Digital MarketingThe application of digital technologies is integrated into many existing courses throughout the curriculum. The minor provides a programmed opportunity to explore, in more detail, strategic, tactical, and information management considerations through a program of study that is designed to supplement and extend technology applications in existing courses. The Digital Marketing minor structure provides the breadth and depth of study necessary to compete for jobs that require a greater level of exposure to digital applications.

CURRICULUM

More information, including course numbers, full course descriptions, and prerequisites, is available through the Temple Bulletin.

Digital MarketingThe minor consists of five courses and an optional supervised corporate internship experience. There are a total of three required courses in MIS and two required courses in Marketing. The required courses for the Digital Marketing minor are:

  • Data and Analytics
  • Digital Design and Innovation
  • Social Media Innovation
  • Direct Marketing
  • Digital Marketing

Marketing majors should take Direct Marketing and Digital Marketing as part of the minor and take other Marketing electives for the major because courses cannot double count toward the major and the minor. Other business students will also take the required courses listed above for the Digital Marketing minor.

Digital MarketingRequired Courses for MIS Majors completing this minor

  • Social media innovation
  • Direct Marketing
  • Digital Marketing
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Plus one elective

Since MIS majors take Data and Analytics and User Experience Design (instead of Digital Design and Innovation) as part of their major requirements they will substitute Consumer Behavior and an elective from the list below.

Courses that are optional or required in both the major and minor cannot be double-counted and the elective list provides acceptable substitutes. MIS majors who are interested in this minor will benefit from the additional exposure to Marketing and other opportunities outside the school.

For a full list of electives for the Digital Marketing minor, consult the Temple Bulletin.

Major or Minor?

MAJOR IN MIS

  • Become a leader who initiates, designs, and applies technology to transform business functions and produces innovative products and services.
  • Career choices include business analyst, systems analyst, data analytics, project manager, consultant, application developer, web designer, and social media consultant.

Learn more: BBA in MIS.

MINORS IN MIS

  • Find IT solutions to business problems in all functional areas as well as liaison with developers and technology vendors.
  • Apply for jobs that require identifying and using software products, and providing input into their design.

Learn more: MIS Minor, Digital Marketing Minor, ITIE Minor, Business Analytics Minor

About this site

The Temple Community Platform (TCP) is a cloud-hosted platform built on top of WordPress that consists of three distinct innovations:

  1. New type of learning management system (LMS) that applies social and open concepts to change learning and student development.
  2. A structured measurable professional development program that gets undergraduate students ready for the workplace.
  3. A model and associated software for offering 100% online graduate degree programs at low cost to achieve very high retention and satisfaction.

The platform is showcased at the main WordPress.org site. Take a look and make sure you leave a rating. The key design principles include:

  • Open: All activity is open (e.g., a new post in a course is automatically published on the Internet, a widget displays ‘who is online’, e-portfolios are available on the Internet).
  • Enable social connections and flow: All members can connect, communicate and share with each other (e.g., view profiles, message, share links)
  • Individual control: Members independently generate and control their content and manage their identity (e.g., create a site, choose how to earn professional development points, dashboard analytics help students compare their development and progress to others)
  • Discovery: Tools that encourage discovery of new members, new activity, and content (e.g., community activity list, leaderboard, search, tagging, permanent URLs, PRO point calendar).
  • Aggregation: Activity and content is collated (e.g., sites are automatically published through RSS, badges, graduation analysis and peer comparison analysis on the PRO dashboard).

To learn more see: Mandviwalla, M., Schuff, D., Chacko, M. and Miller, L. Is That All There Is? Taking Education to New Levels in the Social Media Era. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, September 2013. 

Team members

If you have any questions about the platform please contact Laurel Miller at Laurel.Miller@temple.edu. 

MIS Research

As internationally and nationally recognized experts in their fields of study, MIS faculty connect teaching and research, industry and academia, real-world experience, and theoretical constructs. The research is applied, reflects our integrative focus, and is published in premier outlets such as Management Information Systems Quarterly and Information Systems Research.

The vision of MIS is to be a worldwide leader in transformative research and teaching on the design, use, and effects of information technology in a digital world. The research mission is to produce knowledge that fundamentally transforms the design and use of information technology by integrating multi-disciplinary perspectives.

Areas of expertise

IT and strategy

  • Impact of IT Investments on Firm Performance
  • Dynamic and Improvisational Capabilities
  • IT Design and IT Innovation
  • ERP Implementation in Large Firms
  • Ideal CIO Reporting Structure
  • Open Product Sourcing
  • Business Intelligence/Analytics
  • IT Human Capital
  • Cybersecurity

E-Commerce and Internet technologies

  • Broadband policy
  • Online Reviews 
  • Recommendation Systems
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Virtual teams

Social media

  • Social Media in Organizations
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Social Media Strategy
  • Social Analytics
  • Peer influence on technology/product adoption
  • Large network analysis

Digital innovation and design

  • Design Science
  • Digital Transformation
  • Digital platform strategy
  • Complex systems
  • Digital start-ups

Minor in ITIE

The Information Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ITIE) minor integrates the enabling role of IT with the drive of entrepreneurial thinking. The minor includes courses in Entrepreneurship, Management Information Systems (MIS), and other related areas. The minor is appropriate for all majors and particularly relevant for students in Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Management, and MIS. ITIE minors can drive new IT enabled innovative projects in existing firms and create technology enabled start-ups.

The minor is a joint venture between the MIS department and the Strategic Management department.

Kae RobbenIn today’s environment, employers and employees must come up with innovative ideas to benefit the business. The ability to think creatively adds value to any company. I chose the ITIE minor to learn how to analyze situations in non-traditional ways, and it has allowed me to come up with solutions I would have never thought of before.
Kae Robben, ITIE Minor

John CarsiaI selected ITIE as a minor because I feel IT skills are essential for aspiring entrepreneurs. Knowing how to leverage technology today can help you improve efficiency throughout every aspect of your business and separate you from competitors.
John Carsia, BBA MIS, ITIE Minor

CURRICULUM

More information, including course numbers, full course descriptions, and prerequisites, is available through the Temple Bulletin.

Required

  • Entrepreneurial and Innovative Thinking
  • Information Systems Innovation

Electives (select two)

  • User Experience Design
  • Data and Analytics
  • Co-operative Experience in Management Information Systems
  • Managing New and Small Enterprises
  • Entrepreneurial Marketing
  • Creating a Media Business

Notes:

  • Fox school majors cannot double count courses they have already completed for their major.
  • Entrepreneurship majors can take the ITIE minor but they cannot double count courses already taken for their major. They will need to substitute the required SGM 3501 for a different course. Students are encouraged to find a relevant course appropriate to their interest. This course will need to be approved in advance.
  • MIS majors can take the ITIE minor but they cannot double count courses already taken for their major. They are encouraged to take the non-MIS courses for the electives.

Complete the ITIE minor declaration form to declare the ITIE minor.

For more information, please contact Joseph Allegra | joe.allegra@temple.edu

Bachelors in MIS

Best Colleges, US News and World Report, Business Programs 2025The nationally recognized Bachelors of Business Administration in Management Information Systems (MIS) produces digital leaders who design, architect, and manage API-driven products. These products apply APIs, cloud, cyber-security, agile, user experience, and analytics to achieve business outcomes.

The BBA in MIS is a STEM program that provides access to STEM and MIS scholarships.

In today’s digital ecosystem of software-based services, MIS students imagine, create, and deploy API-driven digital products and services to create value for consumers and businesses.

MIS students are poised to take on product management roles applying their skills to take innovative digital ideas from inception to successful use and profitability.

BBA MIS APILearn to design, build, deploy, secure, and evaluate API-driven, cloud-based software applications that achieve business goals, meet requirements, deliver a positive user experience, and execute reliably at scale. MIS will prepare you to:

  • MIS Graduation 2019Design software applications that meet requirements and are enjoyable to use employing state-of-the-art UX techniques
  • Build web-based, API-driven business applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Node.js as well as frameworks such as Express
  • Deploy APIs on a robust cloud infrastructure using Amazon Web Services
  • Secure applications and businesses against cyber-threats applying cryptography and vulnerability discovery techniques
  • Analyze critical business data using data mining techniques and navigate relational and NoSQL data stores using MySQL and MongoDB 

CURRICULUM

More information, including course numbers, full course descriptions, and prerequisites, is available through the Temple Bulletin.

Required courses

  • Web Application Development 
    Develop web-based applications that integrate web services
  • Data and Analytics 
    Analyze and present insights from business data
  • Cloud Architecture 
    Design and build cloud-based infrastructures for scalable application deployment
  • User Experience Design 
    Describe, scope, and build a complete user experience
  • Web Service Programming 
    Create and deploy a complete, end-to-end, cloud-based application
  • Managing Enterprise Cybersecurity 
    Secure applications and the enterprise

Selected electives

  • Lead Global Digital Projects 
    Lead technology-enabled transformation
  • Internet Enabled Supply Chains 
    Reimagine supply chains using digital technology
  • Applied Predictive Analytics 
    Derive patterns and insight from large data sets
  • Strategic Management of Information Technology 
    Manage IT resources to advance an organization’s strategy
  • Social Media Innovation 
    Create digital business models using next-generation interfaces and social media.
  • Special Topics 
    Explore new and emerging technology topics
  • Information Systems Innovation
    Create new digital products and services
  • Co-operative Experience in MIS
    Gain course credit for internships. 

PRO program

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM

MIS majors benefit from the innovative patent-pending PRO – professional achievement program:

  1. Earn required points for professional development activities and for applying learning to practice (e.g., internships, student leadership)
  2. Receive recognition for professional achievement on leaderboards, badges, professional achievement wire, and e-portfolios. ‘Cash-in’ reward points at the MIS Points Store.
  3. Showcase your educational and professional achievements at the MIS Career Fair.

CAREERS AND PLACEMENT

MIS BBA majors get placed in the top firms in the region and nationally. Learn about careers in IS and participate in the MIS Career Fair which provides exclusive one-stop placement and internship opportunities for MIS students. The Temple University led ISJobIndex.com project provides national level data on jobs in the IS field:

  • Bachelor MIS students’ average salary is $75,517 nationally. Salaries for IS graduates are higher than typical business majors.
  • 81% of IS graduates are satisfied with their job offer.

The top IS jobs are:

Top IS Jobs 2022
Source: IS Job Index, http://isjobindex.com

THE MIS EDGE

  1. What is MIS and why should you consider MIS?
  2. What is unique about the nationally recognized MIS program?
  3. Exclusive scholarships and awards. BBA in MIS students are eligible for STEM designated scholarships.
  4. AIS Student OrganizationWin prizes and gain recognition in national, and local analytics and entrepreneurial competitions.
  5. Temple’s Association for Information Systems (AIS) student organization provides extensive professional, social, and community activities.
  6. The BBA in MIS is designed in partnership with the Industry. 
  7. Access top firms through the affiliated Institute of Business and Information Technology, which each year hosts the acclaimed IT awards.
  8. Learn the latest technologies.
  9. Fox is one of the largest business schools in the world with a vast array of programs, research centers, and superb resources.
  10. Accelerated 3 Year BBA – Motivated students can finish in 3 years.

MORE INFORMATION

NEXT STEPS

  1. Take a look at our internationally renowned faculty
  2. Read Why Temple MIS?
  3. Connect with Temple AIS on Facebook

If you are a high performing motivated student – we want to recruit you – please contact Joseph Allegra at jallegra@temple.edu

Programs

Bachelor of MIS

The Bachelor of Business Administration Major in Management Information Systems (MIS) produces digital leaders who design, architect, and manage API-driven products. 

Minor in MIS

A minor in MIS provides undergraduate students the ability to specify, select, utilize, and apply information technology (IT) to their major field of study. The minor provides the skills, and terminology needed to become an expert user of IT in the business world.

Master of Science in IT Auditing & Cyber-security

The nationally recognized MS in Information Technology Auditing and Cyber-Security (MS ITACS) prepares students for careers in protecting and evaluating organizational information systems. The MS ITACS will produce entry-level IT auditors who have the skills and knowledge needed to pass the Information Systems Audit and Control Association’s (ISACA) Certified Information System Auditor exam. The program also offers a Cyber-security track that prepares students for the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) exam.

Doctor of Philosophy in MIS

The MIS specialization in the Fox School’s PhD in Business Administration program is a full-time program that prepares individuals for academic research careers in Information Systems (IS). The MIS PhD is the only independent program in the region.

MIS affiliated programs

Digital Marketing Minor

The Digital Marketing minor prepares students for careers related to customer relationship management, social media, information architecture, ecommerce, search engine optimization, e-detailing, site design, Internet research, demographic and sales analytics, blogging, and media design.

Business Analytics Minor

The Business Analytics minor will prepare students to unlock the value buried in corporate data and create new business opportunities.

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