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Category: Digital Social Networks
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Monday Aug 22 2016 Kimberly Clark was a stodgy company where workers had a job for life. All that is changing. Now the HR department tracks employee metrics to determine who is the more productive. Big data has been used in marketing ala Amazon to determine buyer preferences. And it is coming on stream in…
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Monday June 15, 2015 IBM will invest in Free Big Data Technology. Companies like Amazon use big data to analyze buying patters. Political pollsters do the same using samples as small at 1,000 to discern trends. More of this is on the way. Are there personal issues involved? Is any of this a violation of…
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Thursday April 24, 2014 Ladies Home Journal, published since 1883, ceased publication. Published since December 1883, Ladies’ Home Journal covered global events and cultural shifts from a female perspective. Its first photographed cover appeared in 1898, with a picture of first lady Ida McKinley. In recent years, the magazine’s focus has been on nutrition,…
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Tuesday April 15, 2014 I will be teaching Managerial Accounting in Summer I. I ran across this post, all about how Social Media, advertising, needs to focus on the customer. The author writes as though this were a new Revelation. It is not. As you will learn in ACCT 3314, Dr. Edward Deming introduced…
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Weekend October 12 2013 John Wallace of Resource Global Professionals RGP delivered a lecture this past Wednesday at San Antonio Internal Auditors on the securityof on line banking. The short story there is that there is not much security and a lot of danger via malware. Malware installs unseen on your computer from clicking on…
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Thursday Oct 10 2013 Yesterday at Sa Internal Auditors, John Wallace with Resource Global explained the danger of malware infecting one's computer, grabbing your password and bank account number, and then having your account emptied. In today's WSJ on page B6 two NSA employees have created Light Point Security. The idea is to use the…
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Monday Sept 9 2013 Bibliotech the first all digital public library opens in San Antonio this week. Interestingly it is located near Pleasanton Road and 410 on our south side. No doubt this will be the start of a trend away from paper books.
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Thursday Sept 5 2013 The founder of Weaver CPAs has his certificate numbered in triple digits in Texas. He is one of the first thousand CPAs in Texas. Today Weaver is a state wide firm with offices in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. Most CPA websites demurely describe services offered with come contact information.…
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Wed Jan 16 2013 San Antonio announces its first digital library. Look, no books! A & M San Antonio is not far behind, most of our books have been donations.
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Friday Nov 2 2012 The move to digital magazines is happening faster than one might have thought, just like the move from film to digital, from printed photos to digital. This writer suggests Martha Stewart needs to pick up the pace of going digital, or else.
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