Forwarded to Stacy at Librarianchick.com. She collects and catalogs free textbooks.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:44, <joyce.mckni...@esc.edu> wrote: > Hi all: My husband who teaches non-profit management found a wonderful > free site sponsored by the University of Minnesota that offers all kinds of > free resources...the link is www.managementhelp.org and the site name is > the > Free Management Library. His students use it all the time. Perhaps just > putting links to this somewhere (or many somewheres) in our wikieducator > world would be helpful. J. > > > > From: Randy Fisher <wikira...@gmail.com> > To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com > Date: 10/07/2010 09:42 AM > Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Open Business Resources > Sent by: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com > > > > Hi All, > > Valerie - your raise a very important issue - and I believe that our > community ought to support an initiative like this. > > I recall trying to get my hands on a Volunteer Handbooks - to support in > the business operations of a nonprofit - How difficult it was to find! > Contacting local businesses - they were loathe to part with any of their > cherished manuals (which are usually out of date by the time they're > printed, anyways - <smile>. > > Eventually, community radio open source pioneer KRUU FM has shared its > Handbook, which I have added the the > http://www.wikieducator.org/Community_Engagement page. Also, over time, I > have been collecting resources related to Human Resources - > http://wikieducator.org/Category:Human_Resources > > My thought is, that it would be great if we could get a school that has a > business program, to develop some of its material on WE, and also start > leveraging that to get more resources, to support "Open Business". The > other part to this, is about the nature of changing business models in the > open space. Red Hat Linux comes to mind, and also the work we're doing in > WikiPublishing - www.wikieducator.org/WikiPublishing. > > Great idea - let's get a cluster of folks together....and why reinvent the > wheel - use WikiEducator as a production environment, and other > communications technologies for rallying folks too! > > - Randy > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Wong Leo <leolao...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://ibmpcd.com/ > this is a wiki written by IBM employee , which mainly to do with > bussiness and how to survive in a bussiness world , very good writing , > but of course it is written mostly in Chinese and English too > > 2010/10/7 Wong Leo <leolao...@gmail.com> > > Hey Vaylor , > > I am working in a business cooperate college in China , > http://gem-group.com , our CEO was working as CEO for INTEL before , one > time I was chatting with him about Google decision to step out of > China , and right now , in China , google.com is being blocked for some > months now > > Google is trying to do things OPEN here , and many google services like > GMAIL I am using now are really popular now in China , however , what > google is doing now really put the customers of google in a awakard > situation , which many people don't agree > > I agree with what you said about to create the OBR to benefit everyone , > however , we also need to consider the local situation , I think OER or > OBR need to think GLOBALLY BUT also ACT locally , something called > glocally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glocalisation > > > Supply chain management is a good topic , but maybe it is more realistic > to start something both of parties are all intersted , like some real > projects and things we can use into our bussiness strategy or even > marketing . > If you are interested ,I am willing at my side to push some of small > ways to do something , but it need to be win win > > but to start with some of questions > > 1 does bussiness OBR canot use what educator's thinking model ? I am > from academic background , but I found the bussiness world is even > simpler than academic world > > 2 When I am facing a bussiness problem , I like to use google sometimes, > but right now after working in bussiness world for around 2 years ( I > was teaching at the college for 3 years ) , I found google doesnot give > me the info I need most of time , I tried to find answers from people I > know , or from people we know , so ,maybe we should try to see how many > people are intersted in doing this > > 3 Supply Chain management > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_management > What resources you are talking about different from above link ?? > > 2010/10/7 Vtaylor <vtay...@gmail.com> > > In her PLENK session, Janet Clarey mentioned that businesses don't do > "open". I'm working with a business software service provider. We have > been thinking about putting the non-proprietary training / information > someplace as open resources but haven't come up with an appropriate > place to put it. The primary subject is best practices in supply chain > management - a function that every business does at some level. > > The thinking so far - WikiEducator and Wikiversity are too academic. > Wikibooks - it isn't a book. Some place associated with the business - > not as open and collaborative as we would like. > > Is anyone else doing something like this? Is there a Wiki... for > business? Any repositories of Open Business Resources? 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