"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Program Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010." / Advisor(s): Naegle, Brad R. ; Boudreau, Michael. "June 2010." "Joint applied project"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on July 15, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Web, Web 2.0, Internet, Information Age, Program Management, Program Manager, programmatic. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-105). Also available in print.

Memoria para optar al título profesional de periodista / El siguiente texto no pretende ser una recopilación de técnicas de posicionamiento en la red, ni un manual sobre arquitectura de la información, usabilidad o diseño Web. Si bien, toca todos estos campos de investigación, este escrito simplemente documenta la experiencia práctica de un sitio iniciado a través de una inquietud y sustentado por el gusto del cine como pasatiempo. Es necesario entender que todas las técnicas y disciplinas de gestión de un medio en Internet son temporales y se encuentran en constante discusión y renovación de acuerdo a la dinámica expansión de Internet en la sociedad. Por lo mismo, no pueden transformarse en sentencias dogmáticas, pero deben ser referentes claros de lo que es efectivo en la actualidad. Así, el enfoque primordial de esta publicación es plantear distintos campos de debate sobre la nueva labor del periodista en el actual mundo de las redes sociales en la Web y establecer una alerta a la formación de profesionales de la comunicación como protagonistas de la convergencia del contenido en un inmejorable escenario participativo.

Weblogs, one of the Web 2.0 applications, are popular among this Internet generation. Nevertheless, researchers have just begun to study their affordances for education. This report reviews the literature published in the past five years on using weblogs in teaching and learning and identifies most prominent characteristics of weblogs. It finds that weblogs have the potential to support teachers’ pedagogical strategies in terms of knowledge construction, social development, new literacies, reflection, communication and collaboration, and home-school connection. This report also compares contemporary educational blogging services, Edublogs and 21Classes, to provide practitioners some insights about how to practice blogging in their classroom. This paper concludes with an emphasis on teachers’ roles in technology integration and discusses future direction for research on academic use of weblogs. / text

A Well known phrase in Hindi which elucidate that the ‘Thirsty needs to go to well, well will not come to thirsty’. Toolbar has now changed the scenario in respect that it taking well to the thirsty. This paradigm shift is due to advancement in information and computer technology. The thirsts for the information are increasing day-by-day. Information wells are deepens rapidly, library resources are increasing in collection as well as characters and flowing along with the technology. Library and Information Centers adopting various methodology for collection building, from print media to digital collection, from individual subscription to consortia based collaboration in order to saving budget, library automation for resource management, Web 2.0 technology for information literacy and user education and other tools and technology such as audio visual methods, forum, emails, list-serves, and many more lists are added up during the time for ‘save the time of reader’, what S R Rangnathan’s philosophy reveal. Library services are fading out of sight for most user groups and how these users and their expectations have changed, without us realizing. It contains a strong plea for a focus shift for librarians, a focus into the environments where the users are, instead of expecting them to come to us, or our resources. Exploration of all relevant user environments for your organization, the use of new web-based technologies with Web 2.0 elements and certainly a more structural technical re-design of library information systems is required to deliver library services and resources at the place of need. A simple shortterm solution like a Quick-Search Library Toolbar is explained here as a tool for taking library to user. This paper will discuss the Technology, Methodology and Usability and1 multitasking nature of Library Toolbars for enhanced search methodology. This will also discuss how toolbar can be helpful in getting latest information about the happenings around the globe, latest availability of resources in the library, email check with single click and how the library toolbar has been adopted at authors institution for better user education and information communication. The paper concludes with the remarks for research on more tools like library toolbar for enhancing library activity for user unreached.

With the rapid development of DNA synthesis technologies, synthetic biology has made tremendous progress in the past 15 years, in particular for synthetic genomics. Synthetic genomics is a nascent field of synthetic biology, which aims to design new biological systems/organisms to satisfy human needs. Conventional synthetic biology focuses on the redesign, construction and modeling of biological parts, pathways or genomes that do not exist in nature, while synthetic genomics encompasses technologies that allow the generation of chemically synthesized larger parts of genomes or whole genomes, with simultaneous redesign of an organism's genetic material. Synthetic genomics is painting a blueprint for a new era of biology and holds great potential for a multitude of applications, such as pharmaceuticals, biofuels and rapid generation of vaccines against emerging diseases. Chapter One gives an introduction of the current state of the art and challenges of synthetic genomics and the objectives of this study. Chapter Two demonstrates the design and construction strategy of two megabase-long synthetic yeast chromosomes, SynII and SynVII. Chapter Three describes the full characterization of SynII and SynVII. Chapter Four introduces the SCRaMbLE (Synthetic Chromosome Rearrangement and Modification by LoxPsym-mediated Evolution) system and its application in SynII and SynVII. Taken together, this work demonstrates the utility of synthetic yeast for understanding biological systems and its potential for industrial applications.

Tese de mestrado. Multimédia. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 2010

Num título que se denomina por Plataformas de Comunicação Web 2.0 na Casa da Música procuro perceber de que forma as redes sociais se estão a repercutir no seio das empresas/instituições e que benefícios daí surgem. Quais as suas características e de que fOlma estas se podem ancorar a um plano de comunicação e marketing. Assistimos hoje ao surgimento de sinais de transfOlmação em diferentes áreas da sociedade que não se limitam a mudanças pontuais, mas cujo impacto é significativo ao ponto de representarem transformações substanciais, exercendo influência sobre o todo do tecido social. Que sociedade é esta que se vem impondo e qual a lógica por detrás destas mudanças? Neste sentido, as empresas/instituições culturais devem perceber estas mudanças, visto que, tal como no Marketing tradicional, também o Marketing Cultural deve procurar adaptar-se às novas exigências e desafios tecnológicos nomeadamente à Internet e às consequências inerentes a este fenómeno. Assim sendo, e considerando que os desafios são enormes na área do E-Marketing, nomeadamente, com o desenvolvimento das novas platafornlas de comunicação em ambientes Web 2.0, a Casa da Música deve integrá-los e percebe-los na sua estratégia comunicacional.

<p>Den här uppsatsen redogör för en studie om hur intranät används i organisationerna Ericsson och KPMG och hur intranätets möjligheter att stödja organisationens verksamhet förändras i en Webb 2.0 miljö. Syftet med studien var att underlätta olika organisationers överväganden om att ta till sig och använda sig av en Webb 2.0 standard i deras intranät. Studien består av en teoretisk referensram som sedan kopplas ihop med de intervjuer vi genomfört som mynnar ut i olika förslag på hur intranätet kan förbättras med Webb 2.0. Den teoretiska referensramen behandlar litteratur och artiklar inom området intranät och Webb 2.0. Vi kom bland annat fram till i vår studie att båda dessa organisationers intranät knappt eller inte alls stödjer den tvärfunktionella kommunikation och sökningar på intranätet gav ofta alldeles för många träffar som resulterade i att personalen inte alltid fick tag i det material de var ute efter och vi visade på hur Webb 2.0 kan lösa många av de här problemen.</p>

The impact of Web 2.0 technologies has crossed the Internet borders and is increasingly af-fecting not only individuals but also organizations as entities. The emergence of the Enter-prise 2.0 concept, which presumes the application of Web 2.0 tools within the organiza-tional context, is being intensively adopted by many organizations of all types and sizes world-wide. Authors suggest that there is a direct impact of Enterprise 2.0 system on such organizational aspects as communication, collaboration, cooperation, co-creation and even innovation activities. There is though a sort of informational gap in the literature that would address these concepts (Enterprise 2.0 and Innovation) simultaneously and this was one of the main reasons that motivated the authors of this master thesis to investigate this topic. In conducting this research all kinds of informational resources were used and these find-ings were combined with the results obtained from a real business case study, which is an example of an Enterprise 2.0 platform (Incentive) implemented within an organization (IBS). The overall research can be described in three main parts. In the first part analysis of the theoretical aspects related to Innovation and Enterprise 2.0 is made. A preliminary re-search framework is build based on these findings and this framework represents an at-tempt to bridge these theoretical dimensions. In the second part the investigation of the „Colin‟ case study was presented. With this case investigation the research gains access to primary data and information. This strengthens the initial research framework and also de-livers new insights and perspectives in connection to the highlighted topic. The findings re-lated to the impact of Enterprise 2.0 on Innovation processes are analyzed and discussed in the final part of the research from theoretical and empirical perspectives. An enhanced framework, representing the result of the theoretical and empirical studies, is ultimately suggested. This model represents an attempt to portray how can an Enterprise 2.0 system support innovation activities in a more generic way, addressing together major factors that are critical for an innovation process. This investigation has also determined that such Enterprise 2.0 tools as Wikis, Blogs, Social Networking, Micro-blogging, Forums &amp; Discussions, Search Engines, Tagging etc. are having the highest impact on innovation related activities. Additionally, the managerial aspect in relation to Enterprise 2.0 influence on Innovation has proved to be extremely important, especially during the implementation phase.

Den här uppsatsen redogör för en studie om hur intranät används i organisationerna Ericsson och KPMG och hur intranätets möjligheter att stödja organisationens verksamhet förändras i en Webb 2.0 miljö. Syftet med studien var att underlätta olika organisationers överväganden om att ta till sig och använda sig av en Webb 2.0 standard i deras intranät. Studien består av en teoretisk referensram som sedan kopplas ihop med de intervjuer vi genomfört som mynnar ut i olika förslag på hur intranätet kan förbättras med Webb 2.0. Den teoretiska referensramen behandlar litteratur och artiklar inom området intranät och Webb 2.0. Vi kom bland annat fram till i vår studie att båda dessa organisationers intranät knappt eller inte alls stödjer den tvärfunktionella kommunikation och sökningar på intranätet gav ofta alldeles för många träffar som resulterade i att personalen inte alltid fick tag i det material de var ute efter och vi visade på hur Webb 2.0 kan lösa många av de här problemen.