Introduction of a Taskforce member

Dear EAHIL Colleagues,

As a new Taskforce Web 2.0 member I would like to introduce myself and tell about my points of view to web 2.0 issues.

I work as an information specialist at the National Library of Health Sciences Terkko. My main duties are helping customers with their information searches, giving user education and working with the Finnish medical and health sciences database Medic.

My acquaintance with web 2.0 tools began while I was working in the marketing team of EAHIL 2008 Helsinki Conference. Our team noticed that we needed some low threshold tools in order to be able to communicate and work with each other more often, than just in local organizing committee meetings. I did not have that much experience with e.g. wikis, blogs or web based videoconferencing tools. Starting to use these tools proofed to be surprisingly easy, uncomplicated and fun, and most of all these tools proofed to be extremely useful. I cannot imagine how we could have organized everything without them. I also had the good luck to have many web 2.0 knowledgeable colleagues near me, to help me with the basics, such as “How do I establish a web based videoconferencing session?” (Our team has a poster about all of this in EAHIL 2009 Dublin Workshop "Online collaboration tools enabling efficient conference marketing and smooth teamworking", so if you find this interesting, please come and see the poster.)

So my standpoint to web 2.0 tools is that of an enthusiastic grassroot level user, who has noticed that you don’t have to be an it-expert to utilize these tools – and that these tools really are useful and also a fun way to work and communicate interactively. I hope that together we can find within EAHIL nice ways to make good use of web 2.0 tools.

Best Regards,
Katri