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How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

Museum 2.0

I’ll come back to it at the end to demonstrate how it maps to the example. If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Why are folksonomies useful?

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's an example of "social search" in action. 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. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content. Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Niche content. Described the features and content. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. User generated content - Web 2.0 For example, Daily Kos created a wiki.

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fabulous: Tagging allows you to categorize information without being forced to use a pre-determined vocabulary and allows other to easily contribute content. A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. User has control to select a "tag" or "name" that is meaningful to the user.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, you as an individual find a page you want to remember. t describe the content. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. For example, taxonomy. Reilly now has a link that lets people bookmark an article into delicious ( see here for example ). You get more out of the system when the motivation is selfish.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. Alan Levine, CogdogBlog, invented the term and also has some excellent examples here.

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