Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." Taxonomy won! I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams. still thinking outloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking. Tagging at public sites can give you a sense that you're adding to a shared stream of knowledge. robotics???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. The stream of interesting knowledge that comes out of it ??? However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up. A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. 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. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. The other aspect of delicious is that I can participate in a tag stream that is of interest to me. For example, taxonomy. That stream of tags that comes through everyday is very rich and a valuable resource. What irks you????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. You probably noticed that about my tag stream. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s s a folksonomy. Browse the NpTech tag. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN !

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