The IS Blog

Drs. Huber and Piercy lecture about Information Systems at the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia. They hope to use this blog to discuss some of the teaching ideas that they are using in their classes.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

MySpace Example


I found a great example on MySpace to illustrate the low cost of entry for "regular" people to e-commerce markets.

It's a MySpace page for a new, young band, check it out at:
myspace.com/ladyantebellum

I've been discussing it as a segue between Chapter 7 (Business Concepts of E-Commerce) and Chapter 8 (Technology of E-Commerce). You can bring in several different related IS concepts:
  • business use of MySpace (and similar sites)
  • Web 2.0 and social networking trends.
  • technologies behind MySpace.
  • levels of IT knowledge (little needed to use MySpace to lots needed for a more dynamic but more customized site.
On a personal note, one of the members of this band is a former MIS major of ours at UGA!

posted by Dr. P @ 10:20 AM 

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This looks great. Re using example after chapter 7...this puts it in the biz-partner layer. I could also see this in the individual layer. Do you cover MySpace there as well in some way?

1:40 AM  

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