Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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RIP: del.icio.us

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I met Joshua Schacter in 2005 at the Berkman Center and heard him speak shortly before delicious was acquired by Yahoo. I was hoping this was just a rumor.

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Alexandra Says Delicious puts the social in social bookmarking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's the visual that I did on gnomz.com after I read Alexandra Samuel's post about how to select tags for delicious. I really wanted to know why she stuck with delicious. Her answer: Delicious puts the social in social bookmarking. You see, I was having a few sleepless nights of my own. What do you think Marnie?

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Reflection on Action Learning at CP2 Workshop: Tagging and Delicious

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Particularly the tagging discussion which included an action learning exercise as well as lot of sharing of resources and information about tagging. What I liked about the experience was the combination of people who were somewhat new to tagging and others who have been doing it for a while. In your my del.icio.us

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Delicious Bird Tags and Technology Integration

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of tags to organize and bookmark Internet Resources related to subjects. for Educators. Put it on the list to explore.

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Apple Picking with Tags

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But the fruits of my labor has gotten so much richer with the integration of social networking tools, particularly social bookmarking services. I've added wandering through delicious. Look at the bookmarks of folks who first tagged an item that is popular. I used to just google it, but not any longer.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Future of Tagging ??? with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger , Berkman Fellow, who moderated. You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.???

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NpTag Tag and Nonprofit Collaborative Tag Project Types

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use? Emily's post ).

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