MIS 3580: Innovating with Social Media: Facebook, Flash, Blogs and Wikipedia. Tues., Thur., 12:30pm-1:50pm. Learn the concepts and principles related to new business models supported by innovative use of Web 2.0 and social media while gaining hands on experience in social media applications. For more information contact, Dr. Steven L. Johnson (steven@temple.edu).

The Association of Management Information Systems (AMIS) was inducted as the first and founding student chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). In recognition of the contribution of the Fox MIS community in leading the formation of student chapters, AMIS was the first chapter to be inducted into AIS at a special ceremony on December 16, 2009, in Phoenix, Arizona as part of the International Conference on Information Systems.

MIS faculty members Youngjin Yoo and Paul Pavlou were recognized for their research contributions at the Fox School’s 11th Annual Research Roundtable & Teaching Awards Ceremony, on October 23, 2009. Professor Yoo and Pavlou received awards and were listed in the Fox School’s Top Ten Research Honor Roll for 2008-2009.

Adam Alalouf’s e-portfolio was selected by Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, as the winning submission in the Fox MIS e-portfolio contest!  Check out the winning entry: Adam Alalouf e-portfolio. Adam received a $200 Amazon gift certificate for his winning submission. Molly Benson was declared the runner-up and received a $50 gift certificate.

Angelika Dimoka, Assistant Professor of Marketing and Management Information Systems organized a retreat on NeuroIS – the use of neuroimaging tools and theories to better understand the development and use of information and communication technologies in organizations and society. Recently, there has been an explosion in the use of brain imaging tools to study social sciences. Scientists in economics, psychology, and marketing, have teamed up with neuroscientists to examine a variety of phenomena and have made notable advances in understanding decision making and human behavior.

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Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive of Dell Inc., visited Temple’s Fox School of Business on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. Dell was greeted at an informal reception with faculty members and university officials before he met with a select group of Fox School Management Information Systems (MIS) students. A large question-and-answer session followed in the auditorium of Alter Hall, the new state-of-theart home of the Fox School. Read the full article on the Fox School website.

Win a $200 Amazon gift certificate! Shake hands with the creator of WordPress – Matt Mullenweg.

Submit your entry to the foxmis e-portfolio and e-resume contest! The deadline for entry is Sunday October 18th at Midnight. Enter the contest by submitting the URL of your entry as a comment to this post. The top three entries will receive Amazon gift certificates and will meet Matt when he visits the Fox School on October 21, 2009. Matt will select the final winner. For additional details and contest rules, please visit the e-portfolio contest page.

Dr. Youngjin Yoo was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how organizations working on design projects virtualize their work using a mix of virtual and physical elements. The $127,260 award is titled Collaborative Research:  Virtualization of work capabilities in project based organizations.

As part of the project, Professor Yoo will conduct longitudinal analysis of four organizations (Intel, Parker Hannifin, Mortenson Construction, and Ford) through interviews, surveys, and observations. Using the data, he will develop a new notation that captures how virtual and physical elements are intermixed in forming design practices in these organizations and further show how those these practices evolve over time.

MIS doctoral students, Fang-Chun Liu, Doug Schutz, Yang Yang all received separate acceptances to present their research at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Phoenix, December 2009. ICIS is the premier conference in information systems with an acceptance rate of 10-12%. The three papers are:

• Fang-Chun Liu, Business Value of IT in Commercial Banks, together with Rajiv Banker, Pei-Yu Chen, and Chin-Shyh Ou
• Doug Schutz, An Empirical Investigation on The Role of IT Materiality in Multidisciplinary Innovation, together with Yong-Young Kim, Youngjin Yoo, and Paul Pavlou
• Yang Yang, Open Innovation: An Empirical Study of Online Contests, together with Pei-Yu Chen and Paul Pavlou

MIS3580: Next Generation Mobile Applications. Tues, Thurs 3:30-4:50pm. Learn the concepts, leverage, the phone’s features, develop innovative mobile applications. For more information contact Paul Weinberg weinberg@temple.edu