Ch 15: Social Networking Flashcards
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What is web content that is created and updated by many users for many users?
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User-contributed content
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What is an online journal that allows users to post their own opinions, comments, graphics, and video?
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Blog or web log
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Which system supports the capture, organization, and dissemination of knowledge throughout an organization?
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Knowledge management system
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Which of the following best describes Web 2.0?
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Social media and user-generated web content
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What is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new product or service?
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Mashup
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What is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous communication?
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Asynchronous is communication that does not occur at the same time. Synchronous communication occurs at the same time.
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Using the collective power of a community to identify and classify content significantly _________ content categorization costs.
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lowers
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What is Mozilla Firefox?
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A competitor to Internet Explorer.
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Cell phone manufacturers often refer to their products as mobile devices. Which of the below would not be included in the folksonomy for a cell phone?
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Technology platform
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Which of the following are challenges of Business 2.0?
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All of these: Information vandalism Technology dependence Violations of copyright and plagiarism
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What is the practice of expanding your business and social contacts by constructing a personal network?
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Social networking
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Which of the below focuses on user-generated content?
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All of these: YouTube Wikipedia Netflix
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Which of the below is not a characteristic of Business 2.0?
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Web browser
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What is one simplification that has occurred with Business 2.0?
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Improving access to information.
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Many social media websites use _________, or specific keywords or phrases incorporated into website content for means of classification or taxonomy.
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tags
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What is a potential problem or impact of technology dependence?
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All of these: -How do people or businesses function if the connection is down? -Many have a need to be continuously connected for every activity, which potentially eliminates crucial in-person social skills and could stunt psychological growth. -Outages create potentially great havoc for people, businesses, and educational institutions that rely heavily on technology.
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Which of the following demonstrates potential issues with Business 2.0 and information vandalism?
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Open source allows anyone to be able to edit, damage, or destroy content.
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Which social media site works by allowing content to find the users, instead of the users having to search for the content?
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StumbleUpon
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Which of the following identifies Business 2.0 communication and collaboration tools?
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Blogs, wikis, mashups
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The government has taken an active role online. Which of the following is the term that describes the use of strategies and technologies to transform government(s) by improving the delivery of services and enhancing the quality of interaction between government and the citizen-consumer within all the branches of government?
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Egovernment
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What maps group contacts, identifying who knows each other and who works together?
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Social networking analysis
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What is the primary way that social networks work?
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Connecting people by matching profile information.
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What are the two basic functions that social networking sites provide?
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- create and maintain a profile - create connections
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Which of the following is not a topic or feature that is included in Web 3.0?
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Social networking
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What describes how products in a network increase in value to users as the number of users increase?
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Network effect
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Large wikis, such as Wikipedia, can protect the quality and accuracy of their information by assigning users roles such as __________.
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all of these - editor - reader - subject matter expert
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Unlike traditional HTML, which of the following lets writers communicate and readers respond on a regular basis through a simple online journal?
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Blog
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Which of the following is the example of consumer-to-government (C2G) highlighted in the figure Extended Ebusiness Models?
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egov.com
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Which statement below is incorrect?
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The semantic web captures, organizes, and disseminates knowledge (i.e., know-how) throughout an organization.
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What is a component of Web 3.0 that describes things in a way that computers can understand?
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Semantic web
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Which of the following is not an example of explicit knowledge?
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Employee opinion
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What is the type of knowledge that is contained in people's heads?
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Tacit knowledge
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What are the four most common Business 2.0 characteristics?
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Content sharing through open source user-contributed content collaboration inside the organization and collaboration outside the organization.
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What is software whose source code is available free for any third party to review and modify?
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Open source
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What does API stand for?
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Application Programming Interface
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What is one reason that Fortune 500 companies engage in blogging?
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To share ideas.
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Many websites use _______ to constantly feed news to consumers instead of having the consumer search for the news.
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RSS
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Which of the below is not an example of a social bookmarking website?
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Facebook
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What does RSS stand for?
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Real Simple Syndication
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A social bookmarking site is dedicated to providing all of the following except ________.
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to reconnect with colleagues for business progress
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Erik is the president and owner of Watch Out, a local website development company that helps clients create and build unique websites. Many of his daily tasks are heavily technical in nature and require a high level of computer programming and Internet knowledge. Which of the below would Erik primarily use when performing his daily tasks?
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Source code
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What is the difference between a wiki and a blog?
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A wiki user can alter the original content of an article, but a blog user can only add information as a comment.
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A company's internal wiki can be a great tool for all of the following except:
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Building software applications.
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Which of the following best describes Web 3.0?
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Based on the "intelligent" web, where applications use natural language processing
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How would a company like Flickr use social tagging on its website?
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By allowing users to upload images and tag the images with their own keywords.
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Which of the below is not a characteristic of Business 2.0?
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Technical skills are required.
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Which of the below is not a characteristic associated with Mozilla's Firefox?
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Mozilla's Firefox is a prime example of a reputation system.
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What is an SNA?
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Social networking analysis
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What is the type of knowledge that consists of anything that can be documented, archived, and codified, often with the help of an MIS department?
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Explicit knowledge
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What are the two categories that include intellectual and knowledge-based assets?
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Explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge
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What is a system that consists of nonproprietary hardware and software based on publicly known standards that allows third parties to create add-on products to plug into or interoperate with the system?
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Open system
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What is an open system?
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A broad, general term that describes nonproprietary IT hardware and software made available by the standards and procedures by which their products work, making it easier to integrate them
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What is the practice of sending brief posts, only 140-200 characters long, to a personal blog, either publicly or to a private group of subscribers?
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Microblogging
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Twitter is an example of a __________.
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microblogging website
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Ebusiness was characterized by a few companies or users posting content for the masses. What characterizes Business 2.0?
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The masses posting content for the masses.
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How would you categorize mobile entertainment, mobile sales, mobile ticketing, and mobile banking?
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All of these: Mobile business Mbusiness Mcommerce
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How do the majority of potential customers find business websites?
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Through search terms that match the content.
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Social tagging describes the collaborative activity of marking shared online content with keywords or tags as a way to ______________.
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All of these: Organize it for future navigation Organize it for future filtering Organize it for future search
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What is the ability to purchase goods and services through a wireless Internet-enabled device?
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Mobile business
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eBay buyers voluntarily comment to other users and sellers on the quality of service, promptness of shipping, and their general satisfaction with the product. This is one of the most popular examples of user-generated content and is called a(n) ____________.
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reputation system
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What is the most common form of collective intelligence found inside the organization?
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Knowledge management
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Which of the following is one of the largest wikis on the web and one of the 10 most popular web destinations?
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Wikipedia
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What are websites that rely on user participation and user-contributed content, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube?
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Social media
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An API is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for ______________.
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building software applications
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Lisa loves her job as an executive recruiter for a large hospital located in Dallas, Texas. Part of Lisa's job requires her to gather industry information, collaborate with partners, compare competitors, and tap into the knowledge of prospective employees, partners, and customers. Which of the below would Lisa use to perform her job?
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Collective intelligence
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Which of the below represents an example of why an employer would use social media?
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All of these: - To find potential job candidates via LinkedIn. - To review potential job candidates by viewing their Facebook page. - To attract new job candidates via YouTube.
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What do Netflix and Amazon use to drive their recommendation tools?
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User-generated content
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What statement below describes Web 3.0's feature that ensures the "integration of legacy devices"?
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The ability to use current devices such as iPhones and laptops as credit cards or tickets.
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Which of the following best describes Web 1.0?
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Static text-based information websites
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What website was the primary catalyst for growing electronic government and is the official U.S. gateway to all government information?
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FirstGov.gov
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What is the role of a mashup editor?
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All of these: WYSIWYG Often it allows the user to drag and drop data points into a web application. To provide a visual interface to build up a mashup.
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What is a locally stored URL or the address of a file or Internet page saved as a shortcut?
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Website bookmark
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Which statement below is inaccurate?
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Web 2.0 is a simple static website without any interaction with its users.
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What is the term that is similar to taxonomy except that crowdsourcing determines the tag or keyword-based classification system?
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Folksonomy
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One of the most famous examples of wiki vandalism occurred when a false biography entry stated which of the following?
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John Seigenthaler Sr. was assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in the early 1960s and was involved in Kennedy's assassination as well as JFK's.
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Which of the following is a set of tools that supports the work of teams or groups by facilitating the sharing and flow of information?
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Collaboration system
