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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min., 48 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
How has information and communications technology changed the world of commerce and industry? This wide-ranging film tells a remarkable story of our times. Impact on work: In the 1970s office work was done with typewriters and paper and correcting fluid. Computers were giant devices in air-conditioned rooms. Then in the 1980s computers got smaller and began to appear on people's desks. Whole industries and professions vanished. Simon Steele, a sub-editor...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 23 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
How can companies ensure that IT services are directed and optimized to implement critical business objectives? Wendell Jones of Cutter Consortium helps IT managers cope with what has become one of the most difficult -- yet exciting -- jobs in any organization. The program describes techniques that will help IT managers think and communicate like business executives, build relationships with key stakeholders, manage suppliers and providers, achieve...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 33 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This course describes the importance of IT controls and their potential benefits to the technology staff. Major topics include what controls are, why they are needed, applying controls to IT, building a control framework, and discussing critical IT control areas. After setting out goals and objectives for the participant, the first major section delves into the types, frequencies and primary functions of controls, along with their application within...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 319 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors-experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades-which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.
In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology's liberating potential has given way to a...
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Language
English
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You can thrive and excel when you're working remotely, if you adopt the mindset, habits and tech tools of professionals who are even more productive outside the office: Learn to think like a "business of one," and that entrepreneurial mindset will transform your experience of remote work.
It's not enough to stay sane while you're working from home: You deserve to thrive and excel. But that's hard to do when you, your boss or your team are still trying...
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Language
English
Description
The misuse of AI has led to wrongful arrests, denial of medical care, even genocide-this book offers 7 powerful principles that business can use now to end the harm.
AI holds incredible promise to improve virtually every aspect of our lives, but we can't ignore its risks, mishaps and misuses. Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner offer seven principles for ensuring that machine learning supports human flourishing. They draw on Powell's research at Columbia...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 66 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Today's modern information systems are difficult for the general business person to understand because the business work is largely managed inside a 'black box.' In this two-part program, technology writer and consultant Roger Grannis clearly explains and simplifies the inner working of modern information systems, enabling the business person to recognize the issues, ask the right questions, and have confidence in tackling IT-related problems. The...
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Language
English
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"Jacob Silverman calls for social media users to take back ownership of their digital selves from the Silicon Valley corporations who claim to know what's best for them. Integrating politics, sociology, national security, pop culture, and technology, he reveals the surprising conformity at the heart of Internet culture"--
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Language
English
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"Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to connect around the world? Or the first step in creating a generation of addled screen zombies? Many have been quick to declare this the dawn of a neurological and emotional crisis, but solid science on the subject is surprisingly hard to come...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 20 min. 15 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Online and mobile technologies profoundly influence how we read, write, learn and work. Online behaviour follows us all through our schooling and careers. Explore skills for communicating smartly across many digital technologies, how multitasking affects learning and work and how online posts can become skeletons in a digital closet, causing school expulsions, destroying college admissions, and blowing job offers. Discover how to protect your privacy,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 28 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
This program highlights blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, social networking websites, and video sharing websites. It also shows how libraries across the country are using these technologies to reach out to new customers and improve their services. Helene Blowers, Director of Digital Services for Columbus Metropolitan Library, is interviewed in the program and she discusses why libraries need to become familiar with and use these new technologies....
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Series
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
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Did you know that computers are around us almost all the time? They're in cars, streetlights, and even the grocery store checkout! Learn all about the computers that help us every day and the computer code that makes them work. Then, using the link in this book, you can try out your new skills and design your own helpful machines!
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Erica Dhawan, a go-to thought leader on collaboration and a passionate communication junkie, combines cutting edge research with engaging storytelling to decode the new signals and cues that have replaced traditional body language across genders, generations, and culture. In real life, we lean in, uncross our arms, smile, nod and make eye contact to show we listen and care. Online, reading carefully is the new listening. Writing clearly is the new...
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English
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"When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as . . . doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process"--
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Language
English
Description
Written with a step-by-step but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner's Guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are boosted by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for creating practical exercises using Moodle 1.9 with practical examples and see how the child with special education needs progresses....
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English
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In Detail Funambol is a free and open source mobile synchronization server that provides push email, address book and calendar (PIM) data synchronization, and device management for wireless devices. Are you looking to sync your email and other data with mobile devices for easy access? This book will show you how to do that via the Internet cloud. With the help of this complete, practical guide you will learn how to access your email, calendar, contacts,...
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I was invited to visit the inner sanctum of a small conference room in California in November 1983. There, I saw a revolutionary computer called the Macintosh. It was created by a group of people who were groggy and almost giddy from three years of creation.
#2 The Macintosh has become a symbol of intellectual freedom, a signifier that someone has logged into the...
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Language
English
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In Detail Koha is the first full-featured open source library management system that is widely used for efficiently managing libraries. However, setting up and maintaining Koha is no walk in the park. It is not as straightforward as setting up the other popular LAMP applications.
This practical guide provides all the essential information that is needed to make the task of installing and configuring Koha really seem simple and easy. It demonstrates...
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Language
English
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Packed with practical examples, this book looks at a different aspect of performance tuning in each chapter and shows the reader how to apply them to their existing Java applications. Written to version 5.1, this book also has information about the upcoming 6.0 release and how you can upgrade your existing applications. This book is for Java architects who design and configure Enterprise applications. It is great for Java developers who want to get...
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