Laika’s MedLibLog and EAHIL 2009
June 9, 2009
My colleague in the Netherlands has an excellent blog where she was kind enough to write a post about the course I taught last week in Dublin at the EAHIL Workshop on Web 2.0 and health information. It is a great summary of the course. I highly recommend subscribing to her blog if you are interested in anything related to medical librarianship, Web 2.0 and health information and many other topics.
I will do as she has done and embed my two Slidecasts below. Thanks, Jacqueline for the summary of my course and great finally meeting you in real life! (we originally only knew each other on Twitter)
Web 2.0 course at EAHIL Dublin
June 5, 2009
Right now, I’m at the EAHIL (European Association of Health Information Libraries) Workshop in Dublin. On Tuesday, I taught a Web 2.0 course here – it was held in one of the libraries at Trinity College Dublin – very cool 
I think it went well. I might have rambled a bit, but it’s easy to do when talking about web 2.0 tools and apps, especially Twitter which I have a particular fondness for as of late. Some of the issues raised by people in my course that I thought were of interest:
- How does one have time to use all of this web 2.o stuff? – good point. I say use as much as little as you like and ONLY what benefits you.
- What about security? – good point, not everyone should “tweet” everything their org or company is doing!
- What if you are behind an annoying firewall or intranet that won’t even LET you use these tools? – I have no answer there. Become friends with the IT folks!
The presentations are here if you’re interested.
