How does the concept of 'space' impact upon International Relations? This book examines this interesting subject with reference to the ideas of French sociologist Henri Levebre and applies his theories to the use by NGOs of advances in information communications technologies, particularly the internet.

Live your entrepreneurial dream with no–or little–money down

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Even if you don’t have start-up money in the bank, you can get your new business on its feet with ingenuity and knowledge. Starting on a Shoestring is the key to your success. Now in its Fourth Edition, this perennial bestseller has helped thousands of people live out their dreams; it provides the knowledge and the confidence you need to get your business off the ground and up and running. Authoritative, step-by-step guidance will answer your questions, help you plan your strategy, and get you started. In the new Fourth Edition, an all-new chapter covers everything you need to know about the Internet, from creating an online presence for your business to understanding all the tech jargon.

And there’s more:

• Make sure your business idea is right for you–before you take the risk
• Find sources of capital and approach them confidently
• Six common myths: avoid the traps and misconceptions of starting up
• Should you take on a partner?
• Setting up: bargains on equipment, dealing with suppliers, the advantages of leasing, value of consignments
• Marketing and advertising on a shoestring: free publicity, word-of-mouth, creating a prestige image cheaply
• Examples of businesses like yours that maximized their success on the Internet

Now better than ever, Starting on a Shoestring gives you a wealth of vital information you’ll find in no other book–it’s your first step to entrepreneurial success.

Contents:
Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables and Illustrations
Part I: Introduction and Contexts Cyberspace, Digital Media and the Internet 2 Mapping Cyberspace 3 ICT, Telecommunications and Cyberspace Part II: Using Cyberspace 4 Using the Internet 5 Cyberspace Technologies 6 Webcasting and Digital Broadcasting 7 Games and Entertainment Part III: Reading/Writing Cyberspace 8 Sources, Resources and Research 9 Online News and Journalism 10 E-Zines 11 Online Writing 12 Web Design Part IV: Regulations, Institutions and Ethics 13 Regulation and Cybercrime 14 Cyberspace and the Public Sphere 15 Ethics in Cyberspace
Glossary Web resources Bibliography Index

The Internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context, and the impact of these technologies in Asia. These impacts are inevitably uneven and conditioned by issues of telecommunications infrastructure, government policies, cultural and social values, and economic realities. The combination of original research, theoretical innovation and detailed case studies make this an important book for scholars and students in Asian studies, media studies, communication studies and sociology.

The Internet, Organizational Change and Labor challenges assumptions about the advantages of the virtual workplace, and describes the uses of the Internet that advance organizational performance and economic equality. It incorporates both managerial and employee perspectives and evaluates the impact of the Internet on human resources and the balance of power between labour and management.
The Internet is considered both in terms of how it has allowed a mobilization of the workforce, leading to less cohesive and more vulnerable working conditions, but also how it facilitates the dissemination of information and knowledge and accelerates organizational analysis, innovation and improvement.
This book draws practical conclusions but is grounded in the philosophy of knowledge and organizations. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the fields of human resource management and employee relations, technology management, managing information systems and organization theory.

Need to know how to buy a phone switch for your call center? How to measure the productivity of agents? How to choose from two cities that both want your center? No problem. "The Call Center Handbook" is a complete guide to starting, running, and im Establish and operate an efficient call center with this authoritative guide that covers everything from choosing the best site and buying the right equipment to managing agents, monitoring productivity, and enhancing customer relationships.

Written for: Accountants, Doctors, Lawyers, Realtors, Insurance Brokers, Artists, all MLM Reps, Retail Stores...Any type of small to medium-size business interested in FREE ways to advertise on the internet. Email Marketing - Spam or a viable means of advertising? Classifieds - Quick ways to list your company or business for FREE. Search - Google, Yahoo, Bing and More...Easy Placement and all for FREE. Blogs - Should you or shouldn't you??An effective way to advertise for FREE? MySpace - Set your company on auto-pilot for more sales, and it's FREE! Facebook - Put a FREE face on your business and gain hundreds of new customers. Pay-Per-Click - Okay, it's not FREE, but can be quick and cost-effective! Secrets to Free Advertising on the Internet will help your business grow, whether you are already net-savvy or new to the World Wide Web. Marketing expert Robert Noll gives you helpful hints and clear, easy tips on how to use the wide variety of FREE advertising media available online. Reaching out to a whole new customer base can seem intimidating, but Secrets to Free Advertising on the Internet helps you focus your strategy so you don't feel overwhelmed. No matter what your company does, a strong online advertising campaign can help you do it better.

The Internet, Organizational Change and Labor challenges assumptions about the advantages of the virtual workplace, and describes the uses of the Internet that advance organizational performance and economic equality. It incorporates both managerial and employee perspectives and evaluates the impact of the Internet on human resources and the balance of power between labour and management.
The Internet is considered both in terms of how it has allowed a mobilization of the workforce, leading to less cohesive and more vulnerable working conditions, but also how it facilitates the dissemination of information and knowledge and accelerates organizational analysis, innovation and improvement.
This book draws practical conclusions but is grounded in the philosophy of knowledge and organizations. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the fields of human resource management and employee relations, technology management, managing information systems and organization theory.

From the Sloan Management Review comes a remarkable collection of articles written by highly regarded experts in the field of e-business. This second book in the MIT SMR series is aimed at those seeking to integrate e-business into their enterprises as a way of maintaining -- or establishing -- competitive advantage. Strategies for E-Business Success offers a roadmap of the fundamental principles and tools executives need.

Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet use.

It examines the crucial questions:
* how the Japanese are using the Internet: from the prevalence of access via portable devices, to the fashion culture of mobile phones
* how Japan's "cute culture" has colonized cyberspace
* the role of the Internet in different musical subcultures
* how different men's and women's groups have embraced technology to highlight problems of harassment and bullying
* the social, cultural and political impacts of the Internet on Japanese society
* how marginalized groups in Japanese society - gay men, those living with AIDS, members of new religious groups and Japan's hereditary sub-caste, the Burakumin - are challenging the mainstream by using the Internet.

Examined from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, using a broad range of case-studies, this is an exciting and genuinely cutting-edge book which breaks new ground in Japanese studies and will be of value to anyone interested in Japanese culture, the Internet and cyberculture.

Contents:
1. Introduction, Paul Jackson and Peter Eckersley 2. The Business Environment for e-Commerce, Fintan Clear, Brunel University and Leslie Budd, Open University 3. e-Commerce Technology, Nandish Patel, Brunel University 4. Organisational Considerations for e-Business, Lisa Harris, Brunel University and Nelarine Cornelius, Brunel University 5. Using Marketing Databases in e-Business, Michael Collins, chartered Marketer 6. The Ethics Environment for e-Business, Laura Spence, Brunel University 7. e-Business and the Law, Dave Wadsworth, Brunel University 8. e-Commerce: A Global Overview, Geraldine Cohen, Brunel University 9. e-Government, Noah Curthoys, Brunel University Peter Eckersley and Paul Jackson, e-Government Forum, IPF

Electronic commerce has overcome the tech-wrecks of recent times and is now accepted as the future of business, yet a major barrier to its more widespread and successful implementation remains - the continuing uncertainty among organizations of how best to put e-commerce principles into practice.

Based on research in six economies - the UK, USA, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong (China) and Australia - the book addresses the documented uncertainties of business and consumers with Internet retailing by presenting the experiences of leading examples of B2C electronic commerce in each economy.

Demonstrating 'best practice' by examining and comparing these international examples of success, the book provides entrepreneurs and senior managers with insights that will help them plan and implement strategy for successful internet-based business innovation.

With future competitive landscape shifting from competition between companies themselves to trading partner networks, understanding and mastering process design and change is becoming more critical than ever. In order to succeed, companies are starting to weave their key business processes into hard-to-imitate strategic capabilities that distinguish them from their competitors. Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation: Advanced Strategies and Best Practices will help you "connect the dots" by offering insights on how to achieve greater integration within your supply chain networks and realize the performance possible with today's interaction economics.

Based on exhaustive research of supply chains and newly successful networked corporations in the US and Europe, the authors demonstrate how your company can be successful in building an effective supply chain network. Prescriptive benchmarking models illustrate proven strategies, tactics, and methods for achieving a superior level of supply chain performance.

World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations. From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities twelve thousand years ago, through the denser, more interactive metropolitan webs that surrounded ancient Sumer, Athens, and Timbuktu, to the electrified global web that today envelops virtually the entire world in a maelstrom of cooperation and competition, J. R. McNeill and William H. McNeill show human webs to be a key component of world history and a revealing framework of analysis. Avoiding any determinism, environmental or cultural, the McNeills give us a synthesizing picture of the big patterns of world history in a rich, open-ended, concise account.

Intellectual property owners must continually exploit new ways of reproducing, distributing, and marketing their products. However, the threat of piracy looms as a major problem with digital distribution and storage technologies. Multimedia Watermarking Techniques and Applications covers all current and future trends in the design of modern systems that use watermarking to protect multimedia content. Containing the works of contributing authors who are worldwide experts in the field, this volume is intended for researchers and practitioners, as well as for those who want a broad understanding of multimedia security. In the wake of the explosive growth of digital entertainment and Internet applications, this book is the definitive resource on the subject for scientists, researchers, programmers, engineers, business managers, entrepreneurs, and investors.

Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet use.

It examines the crucial questions:
* how the Japanese are using the Internet: from the prevalence of access via portable devices, to the fashion culture of mobile phones
* how Japan's "cute culture" has colonized cyberspace
* the role of the Internet in different musical subcultures
* how different men's and women's groups have embraced technology to highlight problems of harassment and bullying
* the social, cultural and political impacts of the Internet on Japanese society
* how marginalized groups in Japanese society - gay men, those living with AIDS, members of new religious groups and Japan's hereditary sub-caste, the Burakumin - are challenging the mainstream by using the Internet.

Examined from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, using a broad range of case-studies, this is an exciting and genuinely cutting-edge book which breaks new ground in Japanese studies and will be of value to anyone interested in Japanese culture, the Internet and cyberculture.

Blog with the best of 'em! If you're looking for a complete guide to creating and solidifying your place in the blogosphere, you've come to the right place! With 8 books in one, Blogging All-in-One For Dummies is the only resource you'll need to get started or to improve your existing blog. Learn about the most popular blogging platforms, creating content worth reading, and methods for driving traffic to your blog. Cut through the confusion and find the facts about monetizing your blog, using the best blogging tools for you, and increasing reader engagement to become an active, successful member of the blogging community. You're ready to start blogging, so let Dummies show you the way! Perfect your blog idea and choose the best platform for you Get people to read your blog through search engine optimization and social media promotion Learn about the latest trends in the blogosphere Make money from your blog with creative monetization ideas Bloggers of all skill and experience levels will find valuable information in Blogging All-in-One For Dummies.

This is a comprehensive textbook that considers all of the key business, management and technical issues of
e-business. It examines and explains how new technologies provide organizations in both the public and private sector with new ways of doing things. Accessible, jargon free and written by experts, this book uses case studies to illustrate to readers the issues at hand and equipping them with the skills to analyze the changing world in which we work.

Contents:
Introduction 1. Health and the Net - an Overview 2. Getting Online 3. The World Wide Web 4. Finding Health Information on the Internet 5. Communicating with Other Health Professionals by E-Mail 6. Joining Health Discussion Groups, Mailing Lists Etc. 7. The Gateway to Free Health and Medical Resources 8. Publishing on the World Wide Web 9. Online Help with your Health Studies and Job Search Questions and Answers Appendices Worksheets

Enabling eBusiness describes the architecture and components for a comprehensive and robust eBusiness infrastructure. W.S. Whyte introduces the technical possibilities and issues in and around eBusiness and relates them to established business theory.

Looking at the entire supply chain - from supplier to customer - the book includes logistics, customer service, B2B operations, marketing and a lot more.

Enabling eBusiness helps technical and functional team leaders and strategists to get to grips with the requirements for distributed systems and on-line retailing. It is recommended reading for final year and postgraduate students in telecommunications, computer science, electrical engineering and business school courses.

Here you'll find the answers to these questions - and more:

• How can you "seduce" customers into buying on-line?
• How do you get customers to trust you?
• What is database marketing?
• How do you make payment secure?

The advent of the era of "e-Service," the provision of services over electronic networks like the internet, is one of the dominant business themes of the new millennium. It reflects the fundamental shift in the economy from goods to services and the explosive expansion of information technology. This book provides a collection of different perspectives on e-Service and a unified framework to understand it, even as the business community grapples with the concept. It features contributions from key researchers and practitioners from both the private and public sectors, as well leading scholars from the fields of marketing, information systems, and computer science. They focus on three key areas: the customer-technology interface; e-Service business opportunities and strategies; and public sector e-Service opportunities. The insights they offer will be equally useful to students, scholars, and practitioners.

The advent of the era of "e-Service," the provision of services over electronic networks like the internet, is one of the dominant business themes of the new millennium. It reflects the fundamental shift in the economy from goods to services and the explosive expansion of information technology. This book provides a collection of different perspectives on e-Service and a unified framework to understand it, even as the business community grapples with the concept. It features contributions from key researchers and practitioners from both the private and public sectors, as well leading scholars from the fields of marketing, information systems, and computer science. They focus on three key areas: the customer-technology interface; e-Service business opportunities and strategies; and public sector e-Service opportunities. The insights they offer will be equally useful to students, scholars, and practitioners.

Cybertypes looks at the impact of the web and its discourses upon our ideas about race, and vice versa. Examining internet advertising, role-playing games, chat rooms, cyberpunk fiction from Neuromancer to The Matrix and web design, Nakamura traces the real-life consequences that follow when we attempt to push issues of race and identity on-line.

To improve the cost effectiveness and sustainability of e-learning, many national and international initiatives are pioneering new ways in which educators can share their curricula with teachers and learners around the world. To enable this global sharing, educators must learn to design, manage and implement reusable electronic educational resources. This unique book outlines approaches to sharing and reusing resources for e-learning.
Drawing upon research by 30 prominent scholars from seven countries, the authors offer multiple perspectives from school, continuing and higher education as well as industry. It is essential reading for those implementing e-learning in education and corporate training, including teachers, trainers, academics, educational developers and support staff as well as senior managers.