CIMS and the Massachusetts Network Communications Council Monthly Workshop Series

The Center for Information Management Studies (CIMS) at Babson College is a consortium of academic leaders and industry professionals working together to promote the effective use of information technology (IT). A valuable connection between the academic and business worlds, CIMS offers its corporate members access to educational programs, ongoing research, and a broad network of IT professionals. As part of this, CIMS offers a monthly workshop series which is a valuable forum for IT management dialog. Their programs are designed for practitioners: IT executives, managers, and senior professionals.

Molecular’s Riccardo LaRosa and Steve Mulder to lead January’s Workshop:

Web 2.0 – What Is It and What Does It Mean?
Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 8:15-11:15 a.m.
Babson College, Olin Hall

The term Web 2.0 has come onto the IT scene over the past few years. Simply stated, it refers to Web-based applications that are made to look like desktop applications, or a new generation of software to take advantage of Ajax. This session will address the definitions and technologies involved in this new wave of Web applications.

The Web has always been about people, but in a Web 2.0 world this is taking on a whole new meaning. Riccardo La Rosa, Principal Consultant, Engineering, and Steve Mulder, Principal Consultant, User Experience, at Molecular, will share how giving users more control and influence over one’s site unveils a new set of opportunities and challenges. How are user ratings and reviews, tagging, editorial control, user-generated content, and social networking changing the way you think about your site? How are sites dealing with negative user contributions, and what does all this mean when designing and building your site?

For more information, visit the CIMS web site.