ISM 3004 Computing Portfolio Project
2008 for Erik Dibble
I am a junior at the University of Florida majoring in business management.
I'm currently involved in a side project as a drummer for my band Death of Downtown.
I'm a proud father of three, which includes my two dogs and cat.
I've been a cook at Hop's restaurant for thirteen months now.
When I graduate I want to live in Colorado and be an executive manager for a large company.
Web presence is very essential for any size business. A website says alot about your company
and gives the consumer or person looking at your page a feeling for how professional the business is. If you have
a poorly maintained webpage with links that don't work, then people will go else where.
Podcasting can be a very valuable tool for many people, including business and individuals.
Through the use of podcasts, information can be relayed onto people that need that information without having to send
out unuseful resources to people who don't want stuff being sent to them.
People can receive podcasts from thousands of places by subscribing to the ones that they want. This is a very efficient
way of sending out relative information to the right people. The only people who get it are the people who ask for it.
This saves time and money for the companies or individuals sending out information.
Podcasts are used to promote sales and items for sales companies, but are also used for many other applications.
A podcasts could be a comedy skit, music, talk show, or virtually anything else verbally over the computer that a listener
would have an interest in hearing.
Secure E-mail
Secure e-mails are a great way to send information that you want kept secret
out of the hands and eyes of people it wasn't intended for. This is a very useful tool in the business world.
Businesses send information about payroll, new ideas, and other things that can't be shown to certain people.
By encrypting the e-mail that you send to your boss or whoever this important information is going to, you can ensure
that if it is intercepted by the wrong person, that they won't be able to read it without the private or public key.
Through my brief experience with sending and receiving encrypted messages, I feel it's a great and easy way to
add safety to critical e-mails being sent over a potential dangerous internet. There are many hackers and people that
can steal information over computers and if they can't read it, it doesn't do them any good.
Collaborative Computing
In today's business world we are almost required to work on teams to complete tasks. Not only does
working on a team get things done faster, but it provides us with many more positive attributes over working individually
on a task or project. Working together as a team is much more beneficial than working alone, because work can be done over a
program such as Microsoft Sharepoint. Everyone working on the project can contribute to the project from home or the office
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The plus to working with multiple people on a single task is specialized input. By having more minds from different places
give input on the same topic, you receive multiple view points and perspectives on the task at hand and can get more input about it.
Someone might throw in an idea that you might have never thought of, so the use of many people on a project can diversify your options.
The great thing about using a program like Sharepoint to do a project like the Collaborative project we did, is that there are tools
that can be utilized to express your main points of interest and share them with a team. We used polls to have people vote on their
best ideas for each topic, giving the team the best liked option available. Sharepoint also allows you to upload pictures and documents to share
so that you can show things to the team members. Team members can review a document and post bullitens to the team on what they like or don't like
and post revisions. This is a very effective tool for working with people who aren't physically available to be on a team, but they might have
important input to put into the project.
Excel 2003/2007 Skills
I used Microsoft Excel to manipulate data that was in a table, but not in the format that I needed it in.
I added columns and used advanced functions to move data. After I rearranged the data the way it needed to be, I created
a pivot table and arranged specific data by region and state. I then autoformated this table to fluff the apperance a bit.
I then proceeded to use the goal seek function to figure out figure for quarter 2.
Microsoft Access Skills
I used Microsoft Access to organize an excel spreadsheet into usable data in different tables.
I created multiple tables that would allow the user to sort movies by movie rating, personal review, or select which
store the video is located at.
In Order to do all this I had to create primary keys and select relationships between tables that would allow one table
to be linked to another table and share data using a lookup wizard. By using relationships and selecting "enforce referential integrity"
when assigning videos to stores, pg movies for example couldn't be sent to multiple stores if they are only supposed to be at one
particular store.
These skills would be a good thing to have in certain business environments, especially if the business deals with long lists of
products, customers or employees. Access could be used to create relationships between products and suppliers as well as where they are going.
There are of course many other uses for this program but these are just a few.
