Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy??? folksonomy??? The act of tagging is done by the person consuming the information.' VanderWal , 2005, blog entry. keyword to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? How are they different from taxonomies? He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? How do you manage the needed iterative, cycles of divergence and convergence to make folksonomies take off? Want to join in the fun?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. The report also includes an interview with David Weinberger who on his blog wonders how many taggers it takes for tagging to become a vital web resources? taxonomies.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. Niche content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

More importantly, have that filtered product available easily to those without API programming skills or a low-tolerance to information overload. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. The proposed call agenda is here.

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