Associate Professor - UNC Chapel Hill - School of Information and Library Science
INLS 285 -- Information Use for Organizational Effectiveness - Spring 2009 - Organizational Portfolio Project Due April 23 (Last Day of Class) What is the organizational portfolio? The organizational portfolio is an analysis of an organization that interests you. It is a collection of information about that organization along with your analysis of that organization's effective use of information. The purpose of the portfolio is to encourage you to think about the issues, topics, theories, and themes of this course and relate them to practice. Your portfolio should demonstrate your skills to communicate information about the organization, so you may be creative in your presentation. How is it organized? The portfolio must be organized in a logical manner. This can be by course themes or topics, by your professional goals and objectives, or by any other organization of your choosing. The structure that you choose will give the reader an idea of what is important to you. One example of organization might be:
What goes into a portfolio? You choose the things that go into the portfolio, but nothing should be included that you have not commented upon in some way. For example, you may submit a link to the organization's home page or to its annual report, mbut you should explain why you chose it and why you think it is worth including and what you learned from it. the only requirement is that anything that you choose to include fits your overall design and that you have commented upon it in some way - to say why it is meaningful or how it relates to the organization. Other things that go into the portfolio are things that you may find throughout the semester. For example, a newspaper article that describes how an organization has used a new technology in an innovative way, a promotional brochure that may be used to help someone find what they are looking for, or even a copy of an email message that demonstrates a point you wish to make. You may do additional reading (several books and articles will be suggested throughout the course) and comment on those as well if you would like. If you choose a sports team as your organization, you might analyze statistics that demonstrate its effectiveness. Or you may demonstrate the profitability of a company or illustrate the rate of participation in a social organization, for example. To demonstrate how this organization uses information to improve products and/or services is particularly important. If you think that you mgith like to work in this organization some day, you might include an example of a job description from that organization - or prepare your resume to appeal to this organization's human resources staff. What is the format for the portfolio? The portfolio must be in digital form such as a Web page, a wiki, a blog. [If you prefer to submit a hard copy report, that will be accepted]. It should be attractive, well-organized, and it should demonstrate your knowledge as well as be descriptive of the organization. You should approach the assignment as if you were doing an in-depth analysis of an organization in order to determine whether you would like to work there, invest in the organization, or assess its potential for becoming a supplier (or client) for your own business. You should provide both a brief introduction or overview to the portfolio and a brief summary or conclusion. How will the portfolio be graded? There are three standards that will be applied when grading the portfolio, using the information quality measures from Katerattanakul & Siau (2008), "Factors affecting the information quality of personal web portfolios", Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59 (1):63-76. 1. Presentation Information Quality
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