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!

Information Literacy

Moira Bent and Ruth Stubbings were here in Helsinki, they had a very good presentation about information literacy in STKS's seminar. And to remember it here are the links:
Moira's blog
Information Literacy Landscape

Reading tips :)

Found some interesting reading from "Library related people" group in fb.

10 Simple Truths Smart People Forget

Becoming "Librarian 2.0": The Skills, Knowledge, and Attributes Required by Library and Information Science Professionals in a Web 2.0 World (and Beyond)

12th EAHIL Conference! DISCOVERING NEW SEAS OF KNOWLEDGE Technologies, environments and users in the future of health libraries

EAHIL2010 was organised in Lissabon and Estoril 14-18th June 2010 - what a wonderful happening :D!
We had the opprtunity to meet colleagues all over Europe plus also outside. The venue location Estoril was just lovely, by the Atlantic Ocean!
The hotel Sana Estoril was located on a hill and we had a great view to the ocean and also the hills - just beautiful :DD.

About the presentations
The conference had a great start: professor Alexandre Quintanilha had a very interesting presentation: "The evolution of knowledge and its impact on bioethics". It was very encouriging and motivating also, because:
"Without Curiosity and Imagination there is no Knowledge" => big part of our work consists of questions -somebody wants to find answers to her/his questions, and we are working just along the path to the 'answers' :D.

Interesting presentations

Leena Lodenius gave me some hints about interesting presentations :).

here they are:
Andrew Booth: "Supporting The Health Researcher Of The Future"

Chris Mavergames: "Web 2.0 and Health Information"

Have you some more?

Kaunas 2008

Web 2.0. is interesting -yes, that's something we must admit. I used to have a blog, but never wrote in it... Now I have a blog in blogger, so I'll change my habits, and start writing in it.

Karin from Trondheim had a good presentation, and so now it's time to work.

One of the most important things here is to meet Baltic, Nordic and Russian colleagues - it has been really fascinating, how smoothly we all can work together! It's not the traditional teacher-student -relationship, it's sharing experience, sharing knowledge.