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Here is some comparative information. The Nets We Weave (my own research and commentary blog). Founded 2005. Hits: 16,000 The Way Things Work: Organizations (OT) Founded 2007. Hits: 105,000 Bloginization (OT): Founded Sp 2009. Hits: 32,000 What do we make of these? Can anyone look into how good the wordpress statistics are?
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I really like that Jordi posted that first quote regarding history and those who do not know it are doomed to repeat it. In fact, when it comes to the Great Recession as a whole, I’m not really concerned all that much about learning exactly what happened during the crash. I think everyone is pretty [...]
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CNRJBQ8TQCJV This is to claim our blog on the blog search engine Technorati.com
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Your friendly neighborhood Blog Council This week: Jordi and Tania Our choice for best post is Kelly’s World Cup 2010: Dream or Disaster? Other notable posts… Great Title Award and Certificate for Linking Expereince to Topic: Macey’s “Bend it like Beckham: Physics of Sports.” Silver Chalice for Open Systems Link that Made Jordi Dance with Joy: [...]
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Besides following up on your check-list for comment-a-palooza, I want you to rediscover books. I was at a seminar this week about information literacy hosted by our own LIT department. We were talking about information literacy and the idea that students should be competent with technology. Good idea!
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Wal-mart has been one of the most succesful companies in the United States; however, I believe that the company has lost its focus of social responsability. After reading the book Nickle and Dime, and having the author describe in great detail her working experience at Walmart, it seems like they are not valueing their employees [...]
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Apart from musing about the impending snow-pocalypse, you are free to take on any topic and see how organization theory adds some insight. A partial list of inspirations includes: Tackling the claim in the Davis and Scott Organizations and Organizing book that little evidence has been found that employee satisfaction leads to higher productivity. The [...]
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The blog Auto Sales Beat Expectations by Alexander Hotz, caught my attention in terms of how sales change drastically in the automobile industry. The blogger cites an article, Ford sales up 25%, as Toyota tallies more pain, that talks in greater depth about auto companies last month’s sales.” These industry numbers aren’t going to light [...]
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A post in Freakonomics spurs conversation over the recent discount plan Whole Foods plans to offer its healthier employees. John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, has not been shy in expressing his own “health” based reforms to lower the cost of health care in the United States. In August, he posted an op-ed entitled [...]
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http://mgmt339.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/being-rich-is-not-an-easy-goal/ In the post entitled, “Being Rich is not an Easy Goal,” the author brings up some good points. I would first applaud the blogger for recognizing that the issue is a prevalent in American lives as ever before. More than ever, Americans have debt to equity ratios at high levels. It is true (and [...]
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100126-712832.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines The article entitles, “eBay to Cut Listing Fees in Bid to Lure Sellers,” presents some interesting ways that eBay is trying to lure more sellers back to what seems to be a business that has sees its peak in the rearview mirror. Even so, eBay is still a thriving online marketplace where people of [...]
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I chose to evaluate the post “My participation isn’t low… my connection is slow!” which looked into the use of Second Life and other virtual worlds for the classroom. This was very interesting to me because my cousin is in an advanced nursing program, which uses Second Life for lectures and office hours. I also [...]
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This post from the spring of 2007 focused on the internet, and how it now brings information to the public at an ever increasing rate. Focusing on the Virginia Tech shootings, the post remarks on how 5 years ago (at the time of the post) the public would have had far less access to information [...]
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“The Workplace” argues that “the way an office is set up has a direct correlation to employee moral, productivity, and job satisfaction”. In the blog, the writer effectively points out several studies that prove this very point. These studies show that employees would be willing to work an hour more per day if they enjoyed [...]
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You will do TWO posts this week! 1) Write a post evaluating one post from either of the last two Org Theory blogs. Bloginization, Spring 2009. or The Way Things Work: Organizations, Spring 2007. Your post should include a link to the original and focus on the strengths of the post why you were interested [...]
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Instructions for Second Week of Blog
To follow up from what I said in class. Before next week (sooner is good!) here is what I want you to do.
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