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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

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Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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Here's an example of "social search" in action. The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Museum Collections and Tagging

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Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ??? Source: Powerhouse Museum.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

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Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. 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. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

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Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It Here are the examples I showed you in the screencast, using the tag ??? For example, I???ve