W3P2 Tasks - Copy (some students asked me to repost them on the blog)

I am posting the tasks a bit early so that it will be easier for you to plan the time.
T3.5. Start with reading chapter 5 and its Summary with proper thinking and attention.
Do the self-assessment test at the end of the chapter preparing for the next Tuesday's quiz and for more adequate forum posts.
T3.6: Deadline: 7/30 @ 23:55. Up to 8 points. Do a Web-based research on one of two topics or any form of their mixes: Electronic Business and/or Enterprise 2.0. Choose any one interesting aspect and explore it. Size: min 400 words not counting min 3 used references. Use same criteria for the post as in Research posts last half-week (show the focus of the post and the conclusion of the research on that focus with bold text that was borrowed/modified to show your OWN research contribution). Do ALL the following task parts:
a) Publish your article in the W3 E-Business discussion.
b) Post the same article into your blog.
c) Write meaningful replies, extending or detailing the main post to at least two articles in the W3 E-Business forum.
Note: I will grade this post with 5 points for a normal research, 7 for advanced and 9 points for a very good research.
T3.7. Choice of Apps and Services for productivity and communications.
Deadline: 7/30 @ 23:55. Up to 7 points.
Since you worked with Zoho with the purpose of familiarizing yourself with forms of cloud computing and SaaS - do the research on various cloud computing applications and web apps phenomenon. Find 8 application software services (or Apps) useful and recommended by you for business use or personal productivity/communications enhancement (no games and mere fun applications please!). They should be used right off the Web without the need to download and install on your computer (like Zoho services). Show the link for each service. Advice: once it is done – copy from the forum the links of the most interesting for you apps for the future use (do not need to report this copying part).
Create a table in zoho database (zoho reports) where you describe these services/apps in the following format (see example):

App/service name	Link	Type	What is good
Gmail	gmail.com	communications	Free email, social sharing, phone calls, storage
…	…	…	…

Try not to repeat each other.
Create a post in the Apps and Services forum where you present each of your apps with more explanations of its essence and important features as a numbered list of applications with a public link to the table (where no login should be required – remember W2P2 tasks). The shown Apps/Web services could be for computers, smart phones, or tablets.

Week 3, Task 8 (T3.8) is gradable (up to 8 points with deadline 7/30 11:55pm
For this task you might want to see the video that you started before to the end

http://www.zoho.com/reports/detailed-overview/Video-Demo-Detailed-Overview.html

1. Log into zoho reports ( http://reports.zoho.com/ ) with your account.
2. In the tab on the bottom of the screen in "existing Databases" - click on Featured Samples and then on SUper Store Sales.
3. Once in Super Store Sales database - click on Copy this database on the top menu (might need to scroll to the right)
4. When you see the database copied to your account (you will see extra entities on your left-side nav bar) - poke around, explore it. Pay main attention to the tables (yellow without arrows), views (reddish), reports (blue), and charts (chart icon).
5. Make some structural changes in the sales table including:
a) add a new column and at least one row to the sales table;
b) add a custom formula column with a different from theirs calculation formula, which still should make some business sense along with the column name for it;
c) modify the type of any chart (and what it shows if you want to go for higher quality work) from the database, or create one of your own for higher work quality (although this is not required to consider the task done). Make sure that it works (you might want to watch the video (the link is in task T2.8 point (e)) to the end.
6. Describe the changes that you made in the exact sequence that you used - in the W3 DB discussion. Also, go to the element view (table, chart), click on Publish on the top menu bar and when the drop-down box opens choose the url (make sure it is public, as you did before) that you should copy and paste in the same discussion as an illustration of how your changes look like. Post such links in the same forum to all elements that you created (tables, charts).