LIBR 246-12: Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools (Fall 2008)

Most libraries have policies in place to carry out the patterns of service and use. Polices that rule the online environment are as important as those that govern the physical environment. Global networks are already part of our social, educational, and professional lives. In order to protect the rights of users and institutions, libraries should explicitly recognize the responsibilities individuals have when interacting in online environments. Through the adoption of regulations libraries will be able to protect the rights of users, staff, and institutions.

How Cisco Tried to Make Routers Sexy Using Social Media
(there title not mine)

I find this interesting for two reasons. This server was designed specifically for social software functions. That means that social software has such a foothold that it has made the number one company for internet technology design a hardware product specifically for it.

I work for a youth development non-profit and we have begun to use Facebook and Myspace to reach out to the graduates of our programs (over 200 programs and thousands of grads in the US). We had tried previously to build our own "graduate portal" but soon realized everyone was already on either Facebook or MySpace and that we didn't need to build something that already existed. It's been a bit of a learning curve, but we have an active Alumni network on those sites now.