Strategic Communication, Portland OR
1. more on filtering: Database with well organized metadata is useful if you have a closed set of information that you want to look at in detail. Information about film, movies, directors, producers... IMDB first comes to mind instead of Google. IMDB is a well organized database, it is faceted (sorted by movie, by director, …
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Examining an academic database social knowing publish then filter lab exercise Books we think of being static, concrete tangible things we get answers. But over time, books are a slower conversation or a forum on the topic, then today's blogs, and forums. Information cloud-editor-publisher-distribute-consumer. information cloud-users as editors - communities - users as users The …
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1. What am I looking for? 2. What tools are available? 3. How can I search this tool like an expert? internet of things. what is it? I typed in a Google search "Internet of Things" to look what returns to the query: Wiki was at the top of the list defining the phrase "Internet …
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It really helps to read the help files... in class we were asked by a professor to read on the Google.com search basics and practice on applying those searching techniques in practice. I decided to use my own website: http://www.mikhailoparin.com. This tremendous improvement on understanding of the phrase: "KNOWING how to search and KNOWING what …
creating a web search engine is not an easy task for an ever increasing growth of the web, however, with today's technologies, the technical part of improving its infrastructures is getting easier and cheaper. The improvement of the search quality is the main goal here. If I understand it correctly, the problem here is the …
searching for "educational system in America" Google scholar: came back with the result of 3.2 mil. hits. CSA web: came up with 249 publications ---------------------------- Google: searched instead of "Find articles with all of the words" i used a different field to "Find articles with all of the words with the exact phrase" which narrowed …
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I have chosen to add local multimedia production houses both public and private to my list of bookmarks on delicious. When compared my tagging to others I found it interesting that mostly our tags matched one another. For example: Portland Community Media website has tags that reflect geographical location, type of business and type of …
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