tutorial: information search tools 9.200 - information systems for management
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Tutorial:Information Search
Tools
9.200 - Information Systemsfor Management
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Claim Your Accounts
Accessing Computer Accounts– LAN: ID is student #, password is BD (yymmdd)
• If in doubt, ask Lab Supervisor• If not in Asper School of Business, see Lab Assistant
– UNIX: See “CLAIMID” on Web• If you have problems, ask Lab Supervisor or someone at Academic
Computing & Networking To use claimid, students must login to Unix using:
– login: claimid – password: claimid
More details can be found at:– http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/accounts– or by entering the Unix command: special
You may use a non-University account for your e-mail and Web page if you wish
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Internet Functions
Email -- mailto: (ListServs, too; push technology) News Groups -- from browser File Transfer Protocol -- FTP:// Telnet -- TELNET:// (logon from remote site) Gopher -- GOPHER:// (menu-based info. retrieval)
– Veronica, Archie, & WAIS (search mechanisms for Gopher, FTP) World Wide Web (WWW) -- HTTP://
– HTML (hypertext links)– Web browsers– Information retrieval (search engines)
Chat -- interactive discussions Videoconferencing -- desktop v/c with
camera/videocam
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Sending E-mail Using Internet Explorer On the Menu Options, Select Tools, then either Read Mail
or New Message. Internet Explorer should bring up whatever mail program has been chosen in its “Options” (under Tools)
Learn how to use a mail program other than Pine (you may choose to learn Pegasus, Eudora, MS Outlook, or MS Outlook Express)
Play with the mail program until you can send, receive, reply, forward, attach, etc. with ease
Email to marker: subject line:– Name, Student ID#, Section#, Time
Fill in Mail Server & Groups preferences, too
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Information Retrieval
Surfing & Searching the World Wide Web– Intuitive addressing (e.g., “www.IBM.com”)– Search engines (multi-search example aj.com)– Bookmarks
Other searches– AltaVista news groups
What search engines have you found useful?– Try google.com
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Local Searches & Misc.
Searching Bison and ABI Powerpages– Bison: http://bison.umanitoba.ca– ABI/Proquest: from Library
Other topics you might wish to explore:– FTP data transfer; interactive chat; videoconferencing;
electronic banking; …
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Off-Campus Logon
For info on how to log in from home:http://www.umanitoba.ca/campus/computing_and_network/remote
For U/M site-licensed software:http://www.umanitoba.ca/software
ACN at 474-8600 for computer support.
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Internet Explorer News Groups
Will bring up your chosen News Reader program Or you can choose View/GoTo/News in MS
Outlook 2000 Example: MS Outlook 2000 News Reader
– You may need to set up a “New Account”– news.ms.umanitoba.ca is the UM News (NNTP) server– Subscribe to Newsgroups– Use Search for keyword search for news groups– Use GoTo to go into a news group’s messages– Then Print, Reply, Reply Group, Forward, or New
Message– You can follow “threads” of conversations as well
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Your account If you have questions concerning your account,
please contact: – Shirley Hares, Accounts Administrator, 474-9788,– Room 629 Engineering Bldg, Fort Garry campus,– e-mail: [email protected]
For assistance, please contact:– ACN Support Desk, 474-8600, – Room 629 Engineering Bldg, Fort Garry campus,– e-mail: [email protected]
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