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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels.

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

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Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's an example of "social search" in action. The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? Those patterns are called ???folksonomies??? folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.???

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. That can make it difficult to navigate.

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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

Museum 2.0

Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. With good reason. It’s all about who has the authority to identify things.

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