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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. social network and community sites. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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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. Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Described the features and content. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. User generated content - Web 2.0 Personality is important. Conclusion.

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

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Backwards Interview: My Advice for Incorporation of Web 2.0 into Museums

Museum 2.0

Are you trying to establish yourself as an up-to-the-minute news source on topics related to your museum’s content? Start working the social network sites. Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Museums need to develop sustainable models for projects that require frequent content updates. Pod or Vodcast.

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