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 Did you ever wonder how senior editors of top journals got started in this important academic endeavor? The odds are good the first review they wrote was for a conference. Yes, you too can follow in the footsteps of the greats of our field! With a goal of at least three reviews per conference submission,there are ample opportunities . . . →Read More:Call for Reviewers 2009 is a short 3 years away. Only 26 1/2 months and it’ll be upon us. Any guesses on what projects you’ll be busy with the first two weeks of January 2009? How about February 2009? Any idea where you’ll be on August 11,2009? Surprisingly,I can already answer these questions with a high . . . →Read More:Planning (Far) Ahead This week the OCIS Executive Council held a post-annual meeting conference call. One topic discussed at length was what it means to division activities to be both “OC”(organizational communications) and “IS”(information systems) . [My understanding is perhaps there was once two divisions,merged together many years ago (?).] As a gross over-simplification,one way to . . . →Read More:What is OCIS? Google found us. It thinks highly of the site,too. Do you have a question about Introducing yourself to the outside world? Or do you want to know more about publishing in top journals? Then this is a place to check out. It’s the 3rd week of September,another semester is now underway. How . . . →Read More:We've been googled The Information Systems Society,the INFORMS division affiliated with one of “biggee”Information Systems journals,Information Systems Research (ISR),just published an online newsletter. The interview with Samba (V. Sambamurthy),Editor of ISR includes a question of particular relevance to doctoral students. As an editor,what advice would you give to doctoral students and people who . . . →Read More:Publishing in Top Journals Are you wondering how our interactions here are enabled yet constrained by the technology infrastructure of WordPress? Of course. Who isn’t? Okay,that isn’t the exact wording of emails in my Inbox. By popular demand,in this post,I relate user privileges for key features and functions of WordPress. [There,that's closer to the wording . . . →Read More:On Being a WordPress Site One of the challenges of an academic career is the lack of immediate feedback. The knowledge work we are training for–publishing research papers,teaching students–requires long periods of effort with little concrete feedback. Outside of coursework,a doctoral program is similar. And,even then,progress in completing courses is only a small part of progress . . . →Read More:Progress as a Doctoral Student Hi fellow students (uh,um,researchers? candidates? professors in training?) I don’t know if this is a problem for you,but I have great difficulty introducing myself to people in the outside world,i.e. non-academic situations. Its not that I’m an introvert,its that I don’t know exactly what it is I do. I have . . . →Read More:Introducing Yourself in the Outside World Welcome to the Student Networking Site for the Organizational Communication and Information System (OCIS) division of the Academy of Management. Wow,that was a mouthfull! Let’s just call it the OCIS Student blog. Or,even:ocis.wordpress.com. This forum is created expressely for OCIS student members (or other interested students) with three primary objectives: (a) to . . . →Read More:Welcome! |
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