CMSY-211 Web Tools for Successful Business

Students will learn how to improve a business's access to information using new web technologies, productivity, and collaboration tools. Students will understand and use social media tools and techniques to identify and create new business models or new services for an existing business. The course will focus on new features of websites, increasing levels of personalization, and creation of different tools to increase effectiveness of business websites. Discussion of strategic and tactical issues will be a strong element of this course.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. 1. Utilize at least two current mashup editors.
   
2. 2. Analyze new tools to create different mashups and use them accordingly.
3. 3. Personalize any type of arbitrary web content (stock quotes, news articles, etc.) and integrate it into any
   other website.
4. 4. Analyze webpage text determining its key concepts, and integrate them into Wikipedia.
5. 5. Send any webpage text to AIM buddies, even in the absence of an AIM Messenger client.
6. 6. Create a basic pipe using two feeds.
7. 7. Sort, filter, and debug mashups.
   

Course Objectives

1. 1. Utilize at least two current mashup editors.
   
2. 2. Analyze new tools to create different mashups and use them accordingly.
3. 3. Personalize any type of arbitrary web content (stock quotes, news articles, etc.) and integrate it into any
   other website.
4. 4. Analyze webpage text determining its key concepts, and integrate them into Wikipedia.
5. 5. Send any webpage text to AIM buddies, even in the absence of an AIM Messenger client.
6. 6. Create a basic pipe using two feeds.
7. 7. Sort, filter, and debug mashups.