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

Museum 2.0

Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. I’ll come back to it at the end to demonstrate how it maps to the example. Why are folksonomies useful? The library created a book drop for every tag. Sounds complicated? They installed more book drops.

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. The See3 Blog points us to a video on YouTube that demonstrates the power of online video and will put your heart in throat!

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