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Great Summary of Folksonomies and Museums Thread

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the Museums/Computers list, there has been a vigorous discussion about folksonomies and G??nter Technorati Tags: art , museums , net2 , tag , nptech , ict , ngo , folksonomy Stop in, stay awhile, and hang out. nter Waibel has done an excellent job of summarizing it.

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

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening. You're It!

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Right now Technorati picks up the RSS for a tag. For example, we get 15 million hits a day and only 1 million were hits from Technorati. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. Technorati Tag: nptech. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up. Some tools: A tool I hadn't seen was Zniff.com which is a search engine based on spurl tags - lets you do a search on the content of web pages.

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Social Bookmarking Conversation Continues While Inventing New Words

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. me-toos, that site-independent taggregation (like the technorati tag?) Sometimes these folks also need a method to share their bookmarks with other staff members in the organization or at remote sites.