Deb Franke and Jim Cahill review eight favorite ways to feed our inner geeks. We will share with you our personal stories not to impress you but to impress upon you what is possible.

1. Feeding That Inner Geek While Sharing Your Expertise and Interests Jim Cahill – Chief Blogger Deb Franke – Social Media Evangelist

2. Presenters Jim Cahill Deb Franke

3. Introduction

4. Geeks come in various flavors

5. They have an attitude of curiosity, interest in discovery and a willingness to share

6. The rise of the geeks – you won’t be alone

7. Google Reader

8. You don’t need a blog to share your thoughts and interests—Google Reader

9. A Google Reader example

10. You can share your Google Reader Shared Items page with others www.google.com/reader/shared/06690453844856516695

11. A toolbar bookmarklet lets you easily comment on any page you’re on

12. Delicious.com

13. Easily tag, save and share what interests you — Delicious.com example http://delicious.com

14. Be more productive and effective in your presentation development

15. LinkedIn

16. Keep your professional accomplishments and network up-to-date with LinkedIn

17. Ask your network questions, answer them, keep up as changes occur

18. Your LinkedIn profile can become highly visible in the search engines.

19. Mobile Broadband

20. New Generation Broadband keeps you connected to Your Network – Always!

21. Twitter

22. Twitter extends your instant messages to your network of “followers”

23. We’re growing a DeltaV Twitter community—come join us! Wiki at: sites.google.com/site/deltav-twitterers

24. The intent is a public place to ask questions, get answers, link to things 140 characters means brief Q&A and TinyURL links for more info Question Answers

25. Examples of how you can use Twitter this week at Emerson Exchange Tag Twitter “tweets” with #EmEx and use search.twitter.com to see what others are saying and doing Announce impromptu meet ups Provide session feedback in real time with phone text messaging

26. Flickr

27. Share “How To” examples with Flickr photo sharing http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevewall/1095860966/

28. Share tutorials with Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/larajade/353212395/

29. You can create and use of private groups

30. Join the fun with Duncan@Play

31. YouTube

32. YouTube offers more than entertainment

33. Businesses are creating educational videos Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwXMa8MAgFA

34. Professors share their classroom lectures Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnunzdvezto

35. Step-by-step tutorials created by user communities help others learn Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWYi4_COZMU

36. Guitar hero to guitar lessons – personal development for free Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flk8BpFIOSs&feature=related

37. FriendFeed

38. Pulling together and sharing your external presence—FriendFeed.com Friendfeed.com/JimCahill

39. Some examples of what’s possible when you share your interests and expertise