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 following point makes we wonder about the difference in terms of behaviors and values in tagging communities versus crowd filtering communities (e.g
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2007
Do some searches (say "family playing without dad") - it's truely an amazingly effective tool, geared towards people who need to find exact and effective things quickly. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. Expensive to maintain?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
and thus of people???that The reports gives us a demographic snap shot of who is tagging now ("Classic early adopters, people under 40" - guess I'm not a classic early adopter). folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 24, 2006
The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. perspectives rather than institutional ones.
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. Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit.
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