Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. 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.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 Some of the suggestions I've been considering: --reader-generated tags (right now I set the topic tags for each post, not sure how to do this with Blogger but it could be possible) pumping up the "What is Museum 2.0?"

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. In the world of museums, tagging is of great interest to people in the collections world. Why are folksonomies useful? In this case, book drops were the key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

You can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that users have created and saved. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s s a folksonomy. Tagging in Art Museums. Use in combination with search. t get bogged down ???

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