E-Commerce Podcasts

E-Commerce Podcasts - Spring 2006

Podcast Index for Prof. John Gallaugher's Spring 2006 Undergraduate E-Commerce Course at Boston College.

Podcasts are available free to all (faculty, students, and the broader Net community). If you listen, please let me know! If feedback remains positive, I'll be sure to podcast more courses. Also note there is more free course content available at gallaugher.com, including chapters, syllabi, and the Week in Geek.

This is my very first experiment with podcasting, so I apologize that the experience is so rough around the edges. If you have iTunes installed on your computer, you can subscribe to the podcast by clicking this icon

(iTunes will launch when you click it). The index at the bottom of this page contains direct links with richer descriptions of each podcast. Sound quality is terrible, but my hope is that the podcasts are a useful tool for helping my students review. I'm also very interested in hearing from other folks (faculty, students, practitioners or the curious) outside Boston College who have sampled these podcasts. Please drop me an e-mail & let me know what you think! Cheers, jeers, corrections and suggestions are all welcome. If this proves useful/interesting, I will continue offering podcasts. Course readings and PowerPoint slides for the course are also online (please note that the database license to some links on the 'Course Readings' page is limited to the BC community, and I cannot forward inaccessible copyrighted material). Also, consider subscribing to the Week in Geek newsletter on my website.

A brief answer to the most asked question:

Q: How has podcasting impacted student attendance?

A: I've noticed no difference. We've had a nearly full classes for each lecture, but my students have been warned that classroom attendance is a minimum expectation and grades will drop significantly if they do not attend lectures.

Thanks for your interest!
John ([email protected])

BC's page listing the e-commerce course podcasts is: http://iml2.bc.edu/gallaugher/, but the links below are a bit more descriptive.

Lecture 1 (1-23-06) – discussion of FreshDirect, an Internet grocer that seems to be succeeding in a segment where so many have failed.

Lecture 2 (1-25-06) – summary of FreshDirect + intro to Disintermediation

Lecture 3 (1-27-06) – technical error – no podcast - would have been on the online travel industry.

Lecture 4 (2-1-06) – technical error – no podcast - would have been on BlueNile and the online jewelry industry.

Lecture 5 (2-6-06)– NetFlix Discussion – how a dot-com beat back Blockbuster & Wal-Mart.

Lecture 6 (2-8-06)– NetFlix summary + beginning discussion of ING Direct and Internet banking.

Lecture 7 (2-13-06) – ING Direct and the online retail banking market + discussion of McKinsey's "What's Working Online" article.

Lecture 8 (2-15-06) – further discussion of "What's Working Online" + "Steering Customers to the Right Channel"

Lecture 9 (2-20-06) – Channel Pressure & Channel Conflict lecture + start of discussion on the online music industry.

Lecture 10 (2-22-06) – Continued discussion of the online music industry including Sony's rootkit fiasco, Yahoo Music, Amazon's rumored music offerings + speculation on the evolution of digital media.

Lecture 11 - (not podcast)

Lecture 12 (3.15.06) - Infomediaries - channel extending intermediaries, plus Priceline and online liquidation auctions.

Lecture 13 (3.20.06) - eBay and Market Efficiency Auctions – 3.20.06

Lecture 14 (3.22.06) - Second lecture on eBay, plus the IPO process and W.R. Hambrecht's OpenIPO auction system

Lecture 15 (3.27.06) – Strategy fundamentals, plus comments & critique of Porter's "Strategy and the Internet" article

Lecture 16 (3.29.06) – First lecture on Amazon.com – covers growth, float, operations issues, and personalization.

Lecture 17 (4.03.06) – Second lecture on Amazon.com, plus first lecture on Google

Lecture 18 (4.05.06) - Second lecture on Google

Lecture 19 (4.10.06) – Summary of Google, plus start of Web 2.0 lecture

Lecture 20 (guest speaker - not podcast)

Lecture 21 - Web 2.0 lecture, includes discussion of Facebook, MySpace, and blogs (note: Lecture 20 not podcasted)

Lecture 22 - End of Wikis and How the Net Works Part 1

Lecture 23 - How the Net Works Part 2 (last class of the semester).

E-mail: [email protected] [gallaugher.com]
last modified: Aug. 25, 2006 - © Copyright 1994-2006, John M. Gallaugher, Ph.D.