Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

For example, taxonomy. 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 The goal isn???t t to classify, it???s s to remember.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

A message can derive from any of the following: an updated web site, a newsletter, a mailing list, an RSS item, a recommendation form, some personal email, newsgroups, and web based discussion groups. As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies. Technorati Tags: nptech.

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