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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. Help others find this object???

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place. A helpful question to ask is, "who is this content intended for?"

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How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

Museum 2.0

If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Why are folksonomies useful? Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. From there, you do math to make connections to what other people are using with the help of statistics.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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New Feature! and the Taxonomy of the Museum 2.0 Collection

Museum 2.0

Please consider rating posts to help your fellow readers (and me!) If you are reasonably active with this, I will integrate a "posts by rating" option in the various ways to view posts on the right column, along with "Past Posts by Topic" and by date. see what is most useful and compelling content for you.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Been active since 1995, working in the northern part fo Romania to help mentally challenged people overturn the stigma. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Conclusion.

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