Not that many years ago, wedding photographers
were known as “weekend
warriors; they were wedding photographers on wedding
days and worked at other full-time jobs the rest of
the week. The status of the wedding photographer—
both among other photographers and the public at
large—was very low. They were often...
Over the course of the past twenty years I have learned many things relevant to
this book while working in high-energy physics. As everyone in this field in the
yearly to mid-90s, I was analyzing experimental data collected by particle colliders
using the FORTRAN programming language. Then, gradually, I moved to C++
coding following...
With hundreds of proven tips, tools, and techniques, this freshly updated edition explains how to make the most of the latest Web 2.0 trends and techniques such as RSS, blogs, podcasting, and mobile marketing for online success. Entrepreneurs, corporate marketing managers, small business owners,...
Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy. It is likely to be of interest to anyone trying to understand how to think...
All students interested in researching the Internet are living in very interesting and
exciting times. From the Internet’s beginning in the 1960s up to the present day,
the Internet has grown to become a vast platform where there are now 2 billion
users of this global infrastructure.1 Predictions are that this number will rise to...
My entire career has been about learning and applying new technologies. It has also
been about taking on new challenges related to technology and business. I enjoy
learning new things,and I like to share things that I have learned through writing
and public speaking. I like to help others learn challenging subjects,in particular...
Knowledge Management is fast becoming a hot topic of discussion and
research. The capture, use, production and storage of knowledge is an issue of
paramount importance for businesses, universities, public and private organizations.
Because this is such an important topic, it is essential for researchers, academicians
and managers to...
The origin of queueing theory and its application traces back to Erlang’s historical
work for telephony networks as recently celebrated by the Erlang Centennial, 100
Years of Queueing, Copenhagen, recalling his first paper in 1909. Ever since, the
simplicity and fundamental flavour of Erlang’s famous expressions, such as his...
This book is the outcome the 19th International Conference on Information Systems
Development (ISD 2010), hosted by the faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles
University in Prague during 25–27 August 2010.
The ISD conference evolved from the first Polish-Scandinavian Seminar on Current
Trends in Information Systems...
Thirty years ago, when the first edition of this book was published, little had
been written about the management of libraries and information centers.
Those seeking advice, examples, and information about how to manage libraries
were forced to search for answers in the literature of public administration
or business management. Since...
There is probably no invention in the history of mankind that had such a profound
impact on our lives in such a short time as the World Wide Web. Twenty years ago,
Tim Berners-Lee has developed the first versions of HTML which allowed to weave
documents into the large hypertext document that we know today. It was soon realized
that...
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