The document provides an overview of a tutorial on knowledge acquisition from social networking sites. It discusses using social networking sites as a potential source of data for research ideas, understanding the role of social networks in realizing research ideas, and learning about knowledge acquisition through content retrieval and altering, information extraction (IE) and natural language processing (NLP) tools for performing knowledge acquisition. The tutorial aims to understand the potential of using data from social networking sites for knowledge management research and applications in various fields.