Possible Social Networking Tools to Include:

• IM
• Facebook - MnObe Reference/Instruction Group
  • Should we have everyone planning to be at the meeting create an account, if they haven't already?  This would be for the purpose of getting people familiar with at least one social networking site.  We could ask people to join a group, such as The Library.
  • It's pretty easy to get data on numbers of our students who have facebook accounts (you can search by class year within your network).  Might this kind of data be useful to present?  I know for us at MAC, we knew use was widespread, but we had no idea it was in the 85-90% range.
  • We did some awareness campaigns along the lines of "be careful what you post online" last fall in coordination with career dev, and other student services people.
  • Tracy Mitrano (Cornell) just spoke on social networking and privacy at the ELI conference in January:  I could share some of her highlights--perhaps most notable was her praise of FB's privacy policy as a model.  My impression is this may fly in the face of "popular wisdom" impressions of FB held my many library staff.  She also noted that now she is seeing places like Purdue moving beyond "cautioning" to working with students to better market themselves in FB. 
  • The example of the way the FB community "rebelled" against the new feature that would track each member's actions by default seems a great example of the self-organizing aspects of Web 2.0
  • Here is an example of library advocacy issue using FB:  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210729106 This is something we are attempting to push on our campus...
• MySpace
• Blogosphere
• Social bookmarking
• Blogs/wikis
• Collaborative word processing/spreadsheets
• Flickr

Possible ways to group/frame some of the tools:

• Curricular uses
  •     assignments
  •     support research
  •     working with students
• Collaboration
• Professional Development
• Marketing

Other ideas for presentation

The  following video may be a useful starting point, or middle point, b/c it is shows the development, uses, and implications of the social web, (as well as having some academic uses highlighted within it.) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&mode=related&search=

What are the assumptions here?  What does this mean for how we think about teaching our students?  What does it mean for the higher education, libraries, generally? 

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117106531769704150-9Nm8yUeFF0MRKefWmwRyqKS9rRY_20080210.html?mod=rss_free