MIST4620: Systems Analsys and Design

A Brief Analysis of SACWIS: difficulty implementing social systems information systems.

Submitted by dthoma7 on Fri, 2009-11-20 18:56
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State-wide Automated Social Welfare IS (SACWIS)

I have been following various government efforts to organize and improve. Family services prove particularly difficult. The SACWIS effort is one in a long string of failures by the US government, including the Compliance Monitoring System (1971) and the HDS Information Systems Strategy (1979). Jay Silerman lead the SACWIS effort- $2B federal project under HHS to get states up and running. Money was up and out to the field in 1994.  All states expected to be up and running by 1996.  As of 2005, no state was up and running fully on this system.  At best, states were in the opeartional stage.  By 2009, many are now operational.  See status: click here

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Facebook Application Design Favorites

Submitted by dthoma7 on Fri, 2009-06-26 18:30
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How might one take advantage of the many potential help pages and information sources available concerning building a Facebook application?

 

This page is dedicated to answering this question.

First, join the Facebook Developer community and add the developer app within your Facebook account. You will gain a login to the URL http://developers.facebook.com/

 

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Open Source Tools

Submitted by dthoma7 on Thu, 2008-10-16 14:56
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I frequently try out and contribute to a variety of open-source online community-type tools including Mambo, Tiki-wiki, Drupal (a commercial version of Drupal = Acquia ), and Moodle. I have several currently installed and use some of them for testing out comparative features.

Several guides on the Web provide discussions of the various tools available. Wikipedia provides one of my favorite general lists here.

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Systems Analysis and Design @ UGA MIS

Submitted by dthoma7 on Thu, 2006-10-05 03:43
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This is a cap-stone course in the MIS major at the University of Georgia. It involves integrating programming and database design skills with organizational design understanding and change and project management techniques in a hands-on project with a real business.

 

I built an interactive, dynamic course management system in Microsoft ASP to manage this course back in 2001. Years later, I translated this framework to PHP for my effort in the 2090 Intro course. Here is a shell of the site I used for 4620. It no longer has the dynamic elements since the server cannot process ASP pages.

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