Web Resources Caroline Pierce CSC 101 Spring 2008

CTO Sessions A CTO stands for Chief Technical Officer. This individual is “responsible for the technical direction of an organization”. ml

Blog A blog is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. They may include; –commentary or news on a particular –personal online diaries with thoughts, opinions or feelings –combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic –Allows readers to leave comments in an interactive –Can include text, art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media or a combination of the avbove.

White Paper A white paper is an authoritative report. White papers are used to educate customers, collect leads for a company, or help people make decisions. They can also be a government report outlining policy.

Downloads To download is to receive data from a remote or central system, such as a webserver, FTP server, mail server, or other similar systems. A download is any file that is offered for downloading or that has been downloaded. "download" is used to mean "receive and save" instead of simply "receive".

Review A review is an evaluation of a publication, such as a movie, video game, musical composition, book, or a piece of hardware like a car, appliance, or computer. In addition to a critical statement, the review's author may assign the work a rating (for instance, one to five stars) to indicate its relative merit.

Webcasts A webcast is a media file distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology. As a broadcast may either be live or recorded, similarly, a webcast may either be distributed live or recorded. Essentially, webcasting is “broadcasting” over the Internet.

Podcasts A podcast is a collection of digital media files which is distributed over the Internet, often using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers

CIO Session The chief information officer or CIO is a job title for the head of the information technology group within an organization. During sessions a CIO; –proposes the information technology an enterprise will need to achieve its goals and then works within a budget to implement the plan. –Is involved with analyzing and reworking existing business processes, –Identifies and develops the capability to use new tools, –Identifies and exploits the enterprise's knowledge resources. –Heads the enterprise's efforts to integrate the Internet and the World Wide Web into both its long-term strategy and its immediate business plans. Retrieved 2/5/08

Case Studies Involves an in-depth, longitudinal examination of a single instance or event: a case. Provides systematic way of looking at events, collecting data, analyzing information, and reporting the results. Allow researcher to gain a sharpened understanding of why the instance happened as it did, and what might become important to look at more extensively in future research. Retrieved 2/4/08

Mobile Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place) Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another n&q=define:mobile&sa=X&oi=glossary_de finition&ct=title Retrieved 2/4/08