Beth Schaefer, assistant director

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IT's 4 U Putting social networking tools to work

• Beth Schaefer, assistant director
• Client Services
• University Information Technology Services
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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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

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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

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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_wa
  tch.html
• http//bethschaefer.blogspot.com/

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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

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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/

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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
  _messaging_clients

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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