The growth in social networking and collaborative learning since the advent of Web 2.0 has been phenomenal and these U & I projects have delivered real value through social networks. Awesome have created a tool to help and support students through the writing of their dissertations while SkillClouds have been examining how to make students more aware of the skills they do possess through the use of social bookmarking software and tagging. Gold Dust and ticTOCs are delivering relevant tables of contents from 18,000 academic journals through a dynamic, user-aware service which has the power to transform current research practice, while alongside this, Streamline have developed tools to integrate repository functions. HeLMET is supporting online consultation and brainstorming in distributed communities of practice in Medical Education via the use of social software, and Content Integration Project have been tackling the problem of information integration in large organisations.