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Investigating Social Networking Sites

  
     
   

The purpose of “Investigating Social Networking Sites” training workshop is to provide regional law enforcement partners (local, state, tribal and federal) with the most up-to date training tools geared to assist with gang, violent crime, missing/endangered persons, human trafficking, narcotic, economic crime, international/domestic security, and hate crimes investigations.

The course will also aid in:

  • Being proactive in investigations
  • Shared intelligence
  • Recognizing changing demographics, trends and activities

Some of the areas that will be covered:

  • Advanced search techniques: Getting the most out of search engines, how search engines work, and what they find. This module is a basic module that has implications for all the following modules.
  • Common social networks (MySpace, Facebook,Bebo, etc): How they work, unique populations, and how to obtain information from them. Uncommon social networks: What they are, where they are, and how to locate them.
  • Social network aggregators: These services act as RSS networks for social networks. In some cases the service will actually help you map a social network.
  • Blogs, microblogs and blog-like programs: Blogs include blogger.com,. livejournal and the classic blogging software, but the explosion of non-blogging software for blogging purposes has been incredible For the past two years. This module explores blogs, microblogs like twitter, tumblr and jaiku, as well as blog-like (lifestreaming) services like flickr, brightkite, dopplr, qik, and utterly. We will explain their unique features and discuss how to obtain information from them.
  • Social bookmarks: These shared resources often give the best peek into the deep web and are great tools for teams working on open source information finding. RSS (Really Simple Syndication): What it is, how it works, why it is essential for monitoring repetitive searches and how to manage the information overload.
  • Internet OPSEC: This module discusses searching safely and as quietly as possible, and identities what traces are left behind, why, and how to avoid them.
  • Virtual Worlds: What is out there, the challenges, and the limitations.
  • Emerging technologies: New analytic tools available now and what is coming around the corner.