There have been a number of recent changes to Facebook. In this talk, Matt Merrill covers the following topics: security, managing friends, groups, events and fan pages.

Tired of hearing about "Best Practices"? Rick Keir of Office of Campus Information Security shares stories of some common worst practices in security, along with some advice on what to do instead.

Many times, when credit card information, social security numbers, and other personal information is stolen, it comes from spreadsheets, emails, and other old documents that had been forgotten. Linda Pruss of Office of Campus Information Security and the Badger Incident Response Team (BadgIRT) demonstrate free tools such as Cornell Spider to help you find sensitive data and protect it once you find it. Checking your system for your own credit card and identity information will lower the risk of your identity being stolen.

When you leave your office, does your data go with you? Every week, there's a new story about someone losing a laptop with research data or financial information on it. Allen Monette of the Office of Campus Information Security (OCIS) talks about laptop encryption support at University of Wisconsin-Madison and will demonstrate the use of McAfee Safeboot.

This presentation examines multiple methods of Inbox organization, email tools available on campus and tips for spending less time dealing with email.

You've probably heard about these web tools, but wondered how they might benefit you. Matt Merrill gives an overview and explores possible work and personal uses for each tool. He also shares an example of Google Groups being used in a work project.

Matthew Weinger, MD, provides an overview of 15 years of human factors research on point-of-care work processes in the medical domain, primarily in anesthesiology. Research projects to be discussed include field observations, device evaluations, and controlled studies in both real and simulated care environments. Methods for the conduct of task analysis, workload assessment, and event analysis will be emphasized.

There's a tidal wave of information out there, much of it extremely useful and timely. So how do you stay on top of it all? It used to be about tables of contents or current awareness services, routing slips and unwieldy bookmark lists. Now things are changing, potentially for the better! Learn about some of the new tools available to help you stay on top of whatever kind of information you need. Allan Barclay gives an introduction to iGoogle, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, MyYahoo, as well as toolbars from Google, Yahoo and the Ebling Library.

What are some effective strategies for dealing with the digital mountain created by e-mail? Nancy Kunde provides an overview of categories of records that need special attention, classification strategies, retention requirements and tips for managing your e-mail. Creating or receiving an e-mail message often results in a record. Nancy Kunde shares what qualifies as a record, as well as the implications and legal requirements involving records. She also shares a self-assessment survey tool as a way for university employees and departments to approach managing e-mail as records. Lastly, Nancy discuses e-mail backup, filtering, folders and deletion.

Healthcare is variable, contingent, complex, evanescent work domain. Systems such as information technology (IT) that are intended to support healthcare are often brittle; unable to adapt in the face of such change. Clinicians have developed subtle and well-tuned ways to match resources to variation in demand volume and quality. Their initiatives make it possible for healthcare teams to adapt and survive despite challenges…to be resilient. System developers can learn about how healthcare workers perform in such settings, but need appropriate methods to be effective and efficient. The study of cognitive artifacts can reveal meaningful information about the healthcare setting and how clinicians create resilience. Insights from such research are way to develop resilient systems and to improve healthcare safety.

Haute couture means made to order. Information as in fashion is all about the individual. Why wade through all the "off the shelf" information repositories, when you can have customized information delivery that matches your tastes and interests? Our librarians have discovered some new tools and techniques that can help you sew and patch together your information garbs and make you shine in a ready to wear world. This presentation will show you how using technologies such as RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") will allow you to stay informed of the latest health news or important studies from your favorite journals. RSS is a great tool to help you conquer information overload.

So it looks like Google has won the search engine wars (until the Next Big Thing). The overwhelming majority of users search for information using Google, some even prefer searching it to collecting a list of bookmarks or frequently used websites. Think you're getting the most out of Google already? You might be surprised to know that Google is actually a whole suite of tools which work together, and that even the humble Google search engine itself keeps adding new capabilities. If you'd like to learn more about how Google works this presentation is for you. We'll cover the major features of Google Search and touch on other related products like Google Scholar and Google Books. We'll even cover tools for webmasters (Google Analytics) and tools which allow you to build things to make information you specialize in easier to find (Google Co-op and Google Custom Search). We'll also cover what things you're not likely to find using Google, and why you should always remember that just because Google can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist (well, not yet).

So it looks like Google has won the search engine wars (until the Next Big Thing). The overwhelming majority of users search for information using Google, some even prefer searching it to collecting a list of bookmarks or frequently used websites. Think you're getting the most out of Google already? You might be surprised to know that Google is actually a whole suite of tools which work together, and that even the humble Google search engine itself keeps adding new capabilities. If you'd like to learn more about how Google works this presentation is for you. We'll cover the major features of Google Search and touch on other related products like Google Scholar and Google Books. We'll even cover tools for webmasters (Google Analytics) and tools which allow you to build things to make information you specialize in easier to find (Google Co-op and Google Custom Search). We'll also cover what things you're not likely to find using Google, and why you should always remember that just because Google can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist (well, not yet).