Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

Fabulous: Tagging allows you to categorize information without being forced to use a pre-determined vocabulary and allows other to easily contribute content. If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. The stream of interesting knowledge that comes out of it ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

For example, you as an individual find a page you want to remember. t describe the content. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. The other aspect of delicious is that I can participate in a tag stream that is of interest to me. For example, taxonomy. You get more out of the system when the motivation is selfish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

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. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Here are the examples I showed you in the screencast, using the tag ??? For example, I???ve ve tagged lots of nonprofit tagging examples with ???nptag??? s a folksonomy.

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