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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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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. Source: Powerhouse Museum. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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Life, Times, and Context of the NpTech Tag: An Informal Discussion/Reflection Online at CpSquared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. To translate into your time zone, use the World Time Clock.

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Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com

AFP Blog

Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com: "A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about folksonomies — Web projects that let users “tag” items with keywords and create their own collaborative categorization systems. Tags: NPTagging NPtech.

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0

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How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

Museum 2.0

Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. This post explains that project and suggests a process by which you could approach this kind of “virtual-to-real” design. First, some background on tagging. Why are folksonomies useful?