Procrastination

Is anyone struggling like I am with procrastination while working on the dissertation? If so, are there ways in which you sometimes overcome it? How?

Nominate an OCIS Student Representative

The nominating committee is asking for nominations for the next At-Large Student Representative on the OCIS Executive Committee. OCIS members can nominate a fellow student (or yourself) via this nifty online nomination system. Based on the nominations provided, the nominating committee will prepare a slate of 2-3 members for voting during the upcoming division elections. [...]

Funny Video – Restart WWW – Follow Up

A while ago, I posted a funny video from The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/content/index) about Internet Crash. I found related (sort of) articles from cio.com and computerworld.com, so I wanted to share them with you guys…enjoy!
Lynn Greiner. Jan. 15, 2008. “What if the Internet Went Down…And Didn’t Come Back Up?”
Gary Anthes. Jan. 21, 2008. “The Internet is Down…Now [...]

New to OCIS – what’s AOM meeting like?

I’m new to OCIS, and I’ve never been to OCIS or AOM. I didn’t get anything ready in time for the papers deadline, but I’m thinking of attending anyway. I looked around for doctoral consortium info on the OCIS website and didn’t see anything for this year. Does anyone know if there will be one [...]

Dissertation Committee

So my latest dissertation-related task is putting together a dissertation committee. I’m doing a survey-based field study with a post-positivist research model (“traditional” North American stuff). My specific questions are, What do you look for in a dissertation committee member (assuming you can pick your members, or at least have a say in the process)? [...]