Building Electronic Commerce: With Web Database Constructions

Provides an overview of the topics that readers must understand in order to create e-commerce sites that can display, insert, update, and delete data from a database. Set up as a tutorial rather than a theoretical reference, offering pedagogy more suitable for study. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

Dr. Anne Nelson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, but grew up in the states of Virginia and North Carolina. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a Master's degree in Business Administration and a doctorate in Business Management with concentration in Information Systems. She has completed post-doctoral work in telecommunications and electronic business at Stanford University. Dr. Nelson is Microsoft certified, is a Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW), and is a graduate of the Executives Institute of the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Nelson has taught at High Point University, Wake Forest University, and been a Professor at École Superieure de Commerce - Pau, France, where she taught in their global MBA partnerships with National School of Business (NSB) Graduate School of Business in Bangalore, India and Stockholm University School of Business in Stockholm, Sweden. Since the 1990s, until recently, she lived in France about 3-4 months out of each year.

Nelson is also a retired managing partner with NMA, Inc., an international consulting firm specializing in executive learning platforms and collaborative technologies and continues to consult for them from time to time. Nelson has been President of the Board of Trustees of a community hospital and the President of the local Chamber of Commerce. She has also been a past member of a community bank Board of Directors and past President of the local chapter of Rotary. Currently, she is on the Board of Adivsors for the National School of Business in Bangalore, India, a member of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development, United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs, and a member of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM).