"Is this legit?" Often, it isn't. Rick Keir of the Office of Campus Information Security talks about how the scammers work, how big the underground economy really is, how to recognize a phishing attack, and what you can do to protect yourself, your friends and family from rip-offs.

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.

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.

In this session Allan Barclay, a health sciences librarian, will cover Google Personalized (a way to add information management "widgets" to create your own portal page) and Google Reader (an RSS reader/aggregator - don't know what RSS is? You should!). He will also cover a few related Google products and relate them to other information management sites or tools you might be familiar with, such as uConnect, MyUW, your web browser's bookmarks and news features. This session should give you some ideas for exciting ways to cut down on the clutter and time wasted trying to keep current in your field (and maybe even your personal life).

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).

Ever wondered about the effectiveness of your presentations? What are methods for increasing student engagement during a lecture? This presentation focuses on teaching well with presentation software. Jeff Bohrer, a learning technologist with DoIT Academic Technology, will discuss best practices, common pitfalls, and digital copyright issues related to teaching with presentation technologies.