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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." Taxonomy won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. Anyone can tag it and add it to their social bookmarking account and get it into the tag stream. No surprise.

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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. It also offers group text messaging and video chat."

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Building Blocks of Social Media - Webinar slides and notes

Amy Sample Ward

What’s the difference between Netvibes and Google Reader? You may have a weather widget next to an RSS feed of your organization’s blog, a calendar widget and a feed of Google Alerts, and so on. Netvibes is a lot like an iGoogle home page and is designed to have many different widgets or boxes that are customizable.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. For example, taxonomy. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags.

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