Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy??? folksonomy??? The act of tagging is done by the person consuming the information.' keyword to use. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry. Vander Wal, 2005).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

In terms of additional data, perhaps some visualization of the taggers -- how many taggers, how many items tagged, who is the first tagger of a resource, etc. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I'm summarizing the parts I found interesting: The give us some numbers of tagging, although since it is the first time they have asked about tagging there is not data to determine whether tagging is increasing or not. The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. taxonomies.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. So, Allan takes us through a few options and explains here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. For example, taxonomy. Delicious feels so social to us, we want to know who else has tagged the information, we want to know who they are.??? t come out with a pleasing way to display the information. Clustering the data. Ownership of Data. re the poster child for Web 2.0

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