Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

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. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

The session begain with an overview of some of the familiar services that are using tagging. There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. Tagging from the point of view of taggers. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Future of Tagging ??? You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

David G suggested to me that we should be posting our public bloglines subscriptions to delicious, another tool introduced during the NTC Tag You're It Session. So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy.

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