Get full paper here: BlogBloggerAndTheFirm

Abstract

Consumer generated media, particularly blogs, can help companies in increasing the visibility of their products without spending millions of dollars in advertising. While a number of companies realize the potential of blogs and encourage their employees to blog; a good chunk of them are skeptical about losing control over to this new media. Companies fear that employees may write negative things about them and this may bring significant reputation loss. Overall, companies show mixed response towards negative posts on employee blogs- some companies show complete aversion, while others show resilience towards negative posts. Such mixed reactions towards negative posts motivated us to probe for any positive aspects of negative posts. In particular, we investigate the relationship between negative posts and readership of an employee blog.
In contrast to the popular perception, our results reveal a potential positive aspect of negative posts. Our analysis suggests that negative posts act as catalyst and can exponentially increase the readership to employee blogs, and suggests that there is some merit to thinking of resilience towards negative posts. Since employees typically write few negative posts and largely write positive posts, the increase in readership to employee blogs generally should be enough to offset the negative effect of few negative posts on employee blogs. Therefore, not restraining few negative posts to increase readership should be a good strategy for the start. This raises a logical question, what should be a firm’s policy regarding employee blogging? For exposition, we suggest an analytical framework using our empirical model to answer this question.

Rohit Aggarwal

“Pay with  and your full purchase price is covered |See terms“

You see the above assurance on ebay and felt safe to purchase an item. You wait for many days but your item never arrives. Getting apprehensive you try reaching out to the seller. He never responds to your messages. After getting frustrated you test the above statement and later gets pointed to the following policy.

What if PayPal makes a final decision in my favor?
If PayPal makes a final decision in your favor, we will collect any available funds in the seller’s PayPal balance at that time. However, recovery is not guaranteed and is limited only to the amounts that PayPal can recover from the seller’s Account. Any amounts collected from the seller will be placed in your Account.

The point is that in case a seller commits fraud and never sends you the item, you can not do much about it. Fraudulent sellers are not going to leave any money in their Paypal account. So ebay and Paypal will only apologize to you and you will not get any dime back.

I don’t recommend using debit card for paying an eBay purchase. With credit card hopefully you can still file a chargeback against Paypal and get your money back.

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I have tested it on IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera, and it works on all.  For trying this awesome date-time picker click here. 

Here is the picture of this picker:

jQuery date time picker

Rohit Aggarwal

function getrequired($iugl,$csn,$csen){
        if ($csn!=”){
                if (preg_match(“/$csn/”,$iugl)){
                        list($r,$iulast)=explode($csn,$iugl);
                        if ($csen!=”){
                                list($iulast,$r)=explode($csen,$iulast);      
                        }
                        return trim($iulast);
                }else {return “XX”;}
        }else{
                if ($csen!=”){
                        list($iulast)=explode($csen,$iugl);
                        return trim($iulast);
                }else {return “XX”;}
        }
}

The VPN client software is available at no cost for the following operating systems:

• Windows 2000/XP
• Windows Vista – beta client
• Mac OS X
• Linux
• Solaris

Pick the client according to your system and enjoy the online books at Safari. You will need your university ID and password to download the client.  I would have liked to download the clients and give direct links to my students; but that would have violated University policy because even the download is password protected.

An alternative solution to access library’s databases are:

https://tproxy01.lib.utah.edu/login

UNID ID and password.

Assistant Professor
Operations and Information Systems
David Eccles School of Business
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT-84112
Off. No.-  +1-…
http://rohitaggarwal.wordpress.com

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Rohit Aggarwal

You can find the Course Syllabus here. Please try to keep up with the reading and work out examples regularly. If you will not work regularly then it will be hard to catchup with the class later. 

I will make sure that at the end of the class you are comfortable in making web applications such as a simple online review site. 

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Rohit Aggarwal