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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is a social bookmarking tool. I had used " Back Flip " back 3-4 years ago when I needed a web-based bookmark tool to publish my bookmarks from the semi-defunct Arts Wire Spiderschool. For those of you are not ubergeeks ( I'm not ), del.icio.us So, I was curious to see how bookmarking tools have evolved.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is huge excitement around the social aspect of del.icio.us and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. folksonomy.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. 4) Knowledge management is a solitary endeavor, not a social one. Social Bookmarking. Act 1: The Problem.