1. Beth Schaefer, assistant director Client Services University Information Technology Services IT's 4 U: Putting social networking tools to work

2. Tools Blogs Wikis Twitter Instant Messaging (IM) LinkedIn - Learn about each of these social networking technologies - Discover how they can be used in the work environment - Watch a practical demonstration of each - Discuss the advantages and pitfalls of using them

3. Who am I? bethschaefer sluggirl Usage and usability of these tools should not be assigned to a generation or be age limited The term "Web 2.0" describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web culture communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies

4. Blogs A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. http://connect.educause.edu/ http://www.ncwit.org/news.blog.php http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/inauguration_watch.ht ml http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/inauguration_watch.ht ml http://bethschaefer.blogspot.com/

5. Wikis A wiki is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.cuwiki.org/Announcements

6. Twitter Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. http://twitter.com/UWM_UITS_Beth http://twitter.com/UWM_CIO http://www.twhirl.org/

7. Instant Messaging (IM) Instant messaging (IM) are technologies that create the possibility of real-time text-based communication between two or more participants over the internet or some form of internal network/intranet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messag ing_clients http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messag ing_clients

8. LinkedIn LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of October 2008, it had more than 30 million registered users, spanning 150 industries. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/467/473