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Cross Blog Discussion: NpTech Tag

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Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. I'm constantly looking for information related to work and I a big bookmarker. Post 2 : Facilitating Blog Discussions. I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I admit it.

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

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The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

If you are using Delicious, for example, you don’t need to create a list of tags or a taxonomy you have to stick to before you actually start saving bookmarks. When you save the bookmark, you add the tags you want associated with it, and those can be new or ones you’ve used before.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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The first ten minutes were a discussion between Weinberger and Schachter and then the remaining 70 minutes was wide ranging discussion and q/a: Weinberger : ???There The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. For example, taxonomy. t be bookmarked. is Web 2.0

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A message can derive from any of the following: an updated web site, a newsletter, a mailing list, an RSS item, a recommendation form, some personal email, newsgroups, and web based discussion groups. that really deepen my own understanding of social bookmarking. The messages work their way through a series of filters.

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

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s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Social Bookmarking.