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Reflective OMP on Social Media and Building a Digital Portfolio

What are the most significant things I have learned during this session?

  • Statistics on the volumes of users on twitter (even ranked by countries), Facebook, YouTube and Flickr (hosted photos)
  • Web 1.0 (one way, read-only) and Web 2.0 (two ways, read and write)
  • We are living currently in the Web 2.0 world
  • Web 3.0 is coming up in the future
  • There are established internet markets hitting 3.1bn as at 2015
  • Bashtag and how it helps companies on social media to have the impulse of their clients about their services
  • Social media presence this day is important for business as it attracts more customers than traditional advertising means

What question(s) remain uppermost in my mind?

  • When is Web 3.0 world coming?
  • Security of IoT and Web 3.0 world when they finally arrive

Is there anything I did not understand?

  • None
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Reflective OMP on Information Systems & Systems Thinking

What are the most significant things I have learned during this session?

  • What data and information are and their differences
  • The life cycle of information are group into the categories of creation, existence and estimation
  • The processes that information in an information system passes through are capture, store, use and generate, share, maintain, secure, archive and destroy
  • Data protection and privacy issues have to be considered during the data processing activities. This is supported by various legislation.
  • Information systems is an academic discipline with Positivism, Interpretivism and Critical IS approach
  • The two uses of business process models and the processes involved (Pragmatic and rigorous paradigms)
  • The Business process modelling notations comparing it with the known flowchart symbols and notations
  • Derivation of the word ‘System’ from 2 Greek word ‘sun’ (with) and ‘histania'(set up)
  • A system has structure (static property), behavior (dynamic property) and life cycle.
  • Cybernetic and its feedback principle called Thermostat and Homeostat
  • The concept of self-regulating (adjust based on feedback) and self-organising (when tending towards equilibrium) system
  • First order cybernetics(associated with controlled systems) and second-order(associated with autonomous systems) cybernetics.

What question(s) remain uppermost in my mind?

  • Is IaaS Information as a Service (as it is called in the video) or it is Infrastructure as a Service?
  • An example of how a business model diagram looks
  • Software tools that can be used for business processing modelling

Is there anything I did not understand?

  • Pragmatic process and rigorous paradigms in business process modelling with practically illustration
  • Soft systems and complexity