Search engines, directories, and portals all include search capabilities in their offerings, and they usually work in more or less the same way — user types topic of interest into text box, user clicks Search button — you know the routine. The search is executed, and the results are returned in a list that’s been [...]
The conflicts and the risks between the employee and the company, or the employee, company, and law enforcement officials. There is one more major area of exposure about which every executive must be concerned: disputes and claims among employees, most notably those of sexual harassment. The types of activities and statements considered harassment are becoming [...]
Can Users Access Different Databases?
I’m talking about different databases of information from the same tool, not necessarily different DBMS products. For example, a user may access the regular data mart stored on a local Windows NT server for most queries and reports and, by using the same tool, have access to this information:
Another department’s data [...]
Few things are more frustrating than successfully building a data ware- house and then having it rendered unusable by less-than-satisfactory user tools. This post presents some questions to consider when you’re evaluating tools you’re considering purchasing.
Can Users Easily Budd Their On Query and Report Screens?
In most data warehousing environments, a substantial number of report and [...]
Being a successful data warehouse project manager means that you have to do more — much more — than simply create project plans and ask team members to turn in weekly status reports.
Tell It Like It Is
It doesn’t matter whether you’re working with users, executive sponsors, consultants, vendors, team members, or anyone else. The most [...]
The use of hybrid routing is an approach that is often used to obtain a better balance between the adaptability to varying network conditions and the routing overhead. These protocols use a combination of reactive and proactive principles, each applied under different conditions, places, or regions. For instance, a hybrid routing protocol may benefit from [...]
Since a distributed system will have, as a given, the fact that data should be shared between users the decision to share an entity such as a relational table is not a decision that is taken by the designer. However, underneath the fact that data is shared are a number of design decisions which can [...]
Internet Survey Response rates
Researchers often want to maximise response rates. Several studies have reported response rates for Internet surveys. These reports have varied greatly, and the lack of consistency in findings is likely due to the wide variation of factors across these studies. Sheehan and McMillan review some of the studies comparing email survey [...]
Internet Surveys
While there is a mass of online surveys on the World Wide Web,’ there is still little published research on the factors that influence participants’ responses in Internet-administered surveys. As noted above, most empirical investigations of Internet survey methodology to date have appeared in market research journals (such as The International Journal of Market [...]
It is an odd thing about the Internet that one can easily have a substantial number of people actively looking for studies to participate in. One can equally have a substantial number of people searching the Web looking for ways to test their skills in cracking into systems and having an impact on them. In [...]
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Hyphenation. List the treatment of frequently used terms that raise questions: Are they hyphenated, not hyphenated, or have they grown together to form one word? Is it day trading, day-trading, or daytrading? fiberoptic or fiber-optic? health care or healthcare? longer-term agreement or longer term agreement?
Capitalization. A style guide needn’t instruct writers to capitalize the first [...]
While such approaches may be perfectly feasible (and we do not wish to discourage creative use of technology), it is always worth considering whether the target population has access to the software required. People can only participate in a study if they have the appropriate software installed and configured, so an effective approach is to [...]
You have to learn a bit about online design in order to write design-style guidance for your Web documents (or to edit them intelligently), as well as to help publish user-friendly online style guides.
According to the Yale Style Guide, readers see pages and screens first as a blur of shapes, text blocks, and color. Then [...]
Come on! Give the e-customer what he wants and stop messing him about. There is nothing very enjoyable about spending money on stuff that isn’t quite right because he can’t buy it the way he wants it.
Personalization
Personalization should mean exactly that. It must take the scope of `personal’ marketing beyond a glorified mailshot that proves [...]
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When I started covering the advertising business nearly thirty-five years ago, the media-buying function was firmly ensconced in the agencies. Although the media department was responsible for generating virtually all of the agency’s revenues, its responsibilities were relegated to newcomers in the business, young people right out of college, or women who had moved up [...]
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