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Ebook of the Week: Socialnomics

Socialnomics : How Social Media Transforms The Way We Live and Do Business

We no longer have a choice on whether we do social media; the question is how well we do it.

Welcome to the world of socialnomics, where consumers and the societies they create online have profound effects on our economy and the businesses that operate within it. Online word of mouth, social search, social commerce, and the influence of peer groups are making traditional marketing strategies obsolete.



Get this ebook at Dal!

Note: Access is restricted to Dal users only.

LibVine Find: The Good Sex(anomics) Guide Blog

Your library blog editor, in an idle moment, decided to visit blogs.dal.ca to scope out the competition–I mean, the latest campus blogs. Turns out that Economics prof Marina Adshade has started a cool Dal blog to support her second-year course The Economics of Sex and Love. And wow, her tags are sure more fun than ours: “aphrodisiacs, Alcohol, Brothels, Pornography, prostitution, Risky sex”…

Expect the unexpected at Dal these days….Read Marina’s blog

Alternative Press Index (Trial)

Trial access to Alternative Press Index is available on the Dal Libraries’ trial resources site. Access is by authorization number and password which are provided on the trial resources page. The trial will end April 19, 2008.

Alternative Press Index indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines, covering cultural, economic, political, and social change from 1991 to the present. Subjects covered include anarchism, indigenous peoples, democracy, labor, ecology, national liberation, feminism, theory and practice of socialism, gay and lesbian issues.

Blackwell Reference Online (Trial)

Until March 1, 2008, the Dalhousie Libraries are hosting a trial of Blackwell Reference Online, the new online reference collection from Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Nearly 300 reference volumes are currently available in BRO, making it the largest academic reference collection of its kind available online.

Subject coverage includes Business & Economics, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature & Cultural Studies, Philosophy & Religion, Sociology & Psychology, and Classics. The interface incorporates sophisticated functionalities such as: search options and innovative classification – by subject, person, period, key topic and place; ‘quick search’ on every page allows searching of individual titles or the whole database; numerous illustrations enhance and illuminate the content.

Access during the trial period is available on campus only.