EDUCAUSE Live! November 8, 2006 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Facing Facebook and Other Social Networking Technologies

Special Guests

Tracy Mitrano
Director of IT Policy and the Computer Policy and Law Program
Cornell University

Tracy Mitrano is the director of IT policy and computer policy and law programs for the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell. Elected to the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors in 2006, she will take her seat as its treasurer in January 2007. Mitrano is a 2002 graduate of the Frye Institute, and since then a member of its faculty and chair of the Internet 2 InCommon Steering Committee. From 2004 to 2006, she has served as the cochair of the Internet 2/EDUCAUSE Security Task Force Law and Policy Team. A member of the 2005 EDUCAUSE Program Committee, Mitrano is also a faculty member of the EDUCAUSE Leadership Institute and cofacilitator of the Seminars on Academic Computing. In 2003, the University of Iowa named her the Ada Stoflet Lecturer. In spring 2005, Mitrano taught an Internet Law class for the MiNE Program at the Università Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy. At Cornell, Mitrano is an adjunct assistant professor in the Information Science Program.

Anita "Nicky" Rho
Senior
Cornell University

Nicky Rho is currently a senior in the School of Human Ecology at Cornell University. She has a unique perspective on college life, as she is a transfer student from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she had a background in international relations and Web development and technologies. Based on her exposure to Web design and development through various internship positions, as well as an avid interest in technology as a driving force behind social change and progression, Nicky is currently in the process of applying to law school in hopes of pursuing a JD in intellectual property law.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Tracy Mitrano and Nicky Rho, and the topic will be "Facing Facebook and Other Social Networking Technologies."

It's been said that if a campus wants to know what its students are doing, Facebook is the place to go. While some campuses have banned Facebook due to real or potential abuses, others are focusing on the positive and constructive promise of social networking not only for social life but also for institutional communications and teaching and learning missions. If you’re starting a capital campaign at your institution, why not use social networking technologies for your alumni too, so they can create communities, post video and photos past and present, and "poke" old friends? In this session, the speakers will discuss the power, policies, and potential for social networking technologies, particularly Facebook.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Social Software/Social Computing
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars

Additional Resources

• "Thoughts on Facebook" by Tracy Mitrano