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Monday, September 27, 2010
Gabi
Sunday, September 26, 2010
××× 24 Invasion in Literature Festival
Saturday, September 25, 2010
I'm inspired! I was revitalized. I feel renewed, and I feel blessed with all the new things happening right now. :)
Problem Areas
Problem 1: Difficulty in Tracking Inventory
MACHINES
They do not use their valve machine to aid in counting the withdrawn raw materials
- valve machine requires constant maintenance
- cost-cutting
They lack an Information System that consistently provides and manages their information needs (old)
- Rainchem is a small company so they cannot afford the subscription costs/inapplicable to them
- NetSuite, an "ideal" system for the company, costs millions per year for maintenance/service cost
- Focus on administration (Finance/Human Resources/Purchasing) rather than Inventory system.
-- inventory monitoring is still manageable (manual checking)
-- it is done by one personnel, doing multiple tasks
---Lack of manpower
---- Cost-cutting
MATERIALS
There are too many raw materials
Their base raw materials are oils/liquids (difficult to measure/count)
METHODS
Inventory records are on separate files/records
Recording and updating of records is difficult
- Production staff withdraws raw materials from the warehouse without informing the warehouse officer
-- warehouse officer is not present
--- flexible workload
---- lack of manpower
----- cost-cutting
- They use one central logbook (cannot be updated by multiple users at the same time)
They cannot consistently update their excel files (inventory records/logbook)
Their excel file (inventory records) isn't systematic/organized yet
- No-one can update it consistently
-- lack of manpower
--- cost-cutting
-- lack of defined system for inventory
MANPOWER
Disorganized task assignments/flexible workload
- lack of manpower (to update and monitor the inventory)
-- cost-cutting
Problem 2: Reliability of their New Information System
They bought an Information System, however, it is difficult to use because it is a generic information system
- There are many unnecessary fields to be filled up / not customized to RAINCHEM's business processes/req'ts
- The information system is, on estimate, 10-years old
Information System is susceptible to malfunction during brownouts
- instance where all database records were deleted at a brownout
- they were doing data conversion and it happened midway
- user accounts were inaccessible
- functionality of the system is dependent on local database
SOCCOMP Notes last term
SOCCOMP
Miss Pineda Blog: ideasonsocialcomputing.blogspot.com
FACEBOOK LESSONS
The Facebook Data Torrent Debacle: Q&A
news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100729/tc_pcworld/thefacebookdatatorrentdebacleqa
Facebook Panic Button: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/8555221.stm
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (COP)
- communities of practice (COP)
-> concept derived from online/virtual communities
-> communities extended online
-> sustain online practices
-> look into the level of COP
-> technology intervention is always present
- digital ethnography
DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY/TEACHING BEST PRACTICES
What is Digital Ethnography?
- give a short introduction on "digital ethnography'
- introduce professor as subject of experiment
- recommend include a short profile of your professor
- move on to your interview with him/her
- transcript of interview will appear on the blog (word for word, verbatim), include date and time (at the header)
- use several medium
- full interview two forms: podcast, transcript
- video into different parts: a portion of teaching delivery
- digital ethnography:
- include CONCLUSION
- interview/podcast
- video -> teaching style
1. use of social media in capturing the teaching style/knowledge of professor
- relevance/implication of using social media to capture of CCS teaching history
- try to encapsulate what we're doing and put it in a podcast/social media
2. it would be interesting to hear what your professor has to say in your interview
- several aspects
a. data gathering
- basic things to consider when it comes to an interview
- was it easy/difficult?
b. what are the things/tools you have to use
c. what have you learned from/about your professor?
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Tadhana (Fate) - Up Dharma Down (my own english translation)
Friday, September 10, 2010
Pwede Ba Minsan?
What is your most liberating moment/situation in your life?
I can't tell for sure... I guess I don't remember the exact situation, but I can still feel the experience. It's probably when I faced a big storm in my life, took a big leap, and succeeded. I wish I had more such experiences, though.
At some point, did you ever doubt your talent/skills/judgement?
Yes. There was a point in time that I felt really useless and ineffective. I took a lot of time for myself and for soul-searching. It wasn't easy.... it took a long time for me to accept all the changes in life that made me feel inferior.
Lesson: never doubt yourself. :)