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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy??? folksonomy??? By aggregating the results of folksonomy production it is possible to see how additional value can be created. Vander Wal, 2005).

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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

To translate into your time zone, use the World Time Clock. What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? What about the time dimension? How do you manage the needed iterative, cycles of divergence and convergence to make folksonomies take off?

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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. But give it time. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm summarizing the parts I found interesting: The give us some numbers of tagging, although since it is the first time they have asked about tagging there is not data to determine whether tagging is increasing or not. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Here's an example of "social search" in action.

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You're Doing That Wrong! Rule of Thumb

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree.

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Catching up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 I’m hoping that will provide some very interesting things to blog about over then next few weeks, as I regain my footing. Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, and the ways it’s made itself into the nonprofit sector. I think that a lot of Web 2.0,

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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 Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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