Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? 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. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

see what is most useful and compelling content for you. Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read. What tips do you have for organizing this content?

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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. A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? t describe the content. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. For example, taxonomy. Schachter didn???t It doesn???t t use the word ???folksonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s s a folksonomy. Set up everyone with a bookmarklet tool and show them how to use it. The most difficult part will be to switch from your habit of using the browser favorites list to the bookmarklet tool.

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