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Great Summary of Folksonomies and Museums Thread

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. The organization maintains a blog called " Hanging Together ," the name inspired by the Ben Franklin quote above. Technorati Tags: art , museums , net2 , tag , nptech , ict , ngo , folksonomy

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. " Jayne Cravens from Coyote Communications offers advice and commentary for nonprofit organizations about online social networking. " Web 2.0, 20 practices.

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? 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. Do you read the summaries?

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. As the volume of information increased, weekly summaries were added to the mix. The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Digg it here ). And if you???re

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. " that points some good articles on using social networking resources to think beyond your organization's web site.

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