This morning, I attended the "Social Networking and Operations Research" panel discussion, moderated by Laura McLay.  It was interesting and informative to hear the panel's thoughts on the use of social networking and blogging to further knowledge of operations research techniques and applications.  I found their thoughts on LinkedIn (it's a good idea, but not necessarily the best implementation) and twitter (it's useful primarily to promote other things, including blog posts) to be pretty informative.

Panelists (l to r in the pictures):

Dr. McLay has already posted about the panel, as have Dr. Nagurney and Dr. Thiele, so I'll keep this short.