IFLA & Satellites 2012

IFLA 2012 was great, never before participated.

Also just before IFLA, there were two very good Satellite Meetings:
IFLA Information Literacy Satellite Meeting "The Road to Information Literacy: Librarians as Facilitators of Learning"  in Tampere on Thursday 9th Aug 2012
The program & presentations

and we organized at Terkko
IFLA Biomedical Section's Satellite Meeting "The Future of Health Information" on Friday 10th Aug 2012
The program & presentations

Social Media & Web 2.0

Social media: "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content." Social media: social interaction as a super set beyond social communication. Enabled by ubiquitously accessible and scalable communication techniques, social media has substantially changed the way organizations, communities, and individuals communicate.
It's important that workers in information field have access to social media - and web 2.0 -tools ("EAHIL statement to support institutional access to Web 2.0 tools" under construction).

In information field web 2.0 -technologies enable to create new services based on common 'fundamental' information resources, like PubMed, Scopus etc.:
FeedNavigator
ScholarChart
Top Cited Articles

MyTerkko
Otto - student's Terkko

It can be seen as a possibility: everybody can be involved in developing, creating ideas; usually even the tools are available on the net! And it's easy to spread news and user experiences in social media!