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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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Great reads from around the web on July 18th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Today, I’ll start with a basic taxonomy of these trends, and unpack each one over time. To keep posted, share ideas and promote through your networks:Twitter #tag for this upcoming visit will be #incgen11 or Email cy@hkcss.org.hk

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. social network and community sites.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. to Web 4.0. ghost story???

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to the Museum's Web Manager, Sebastion Chan: "The swatchbook has a lot of high resolution public domain (in Aust) fabric swatches available for download. The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project is another experiment of how social tagging of art may make it more accessible to the general public.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Future of Tagging ??? m labeled as the Web 2.0 And, talking about Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is very Web. 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.

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