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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By aggregating the results of folksonomy production it is possible to see how additional value can be created. Another key feature of folksonomy is that tags are generated again and again, so that it is possible to make sense of emerging trends of interest. keyword to use. Vander Wal, 2005). 2006), a wisdom of crowds-type scenario.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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“Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. With good reason. Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us Tagging is useful. But is it fun?

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What are the best Twitter measurement tools and how are you using them?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alistair suggested a taxonomy. Aggregate (a Twitter user's followers or friends). Trends over time Seasonality, Outside influences, Building up/ Wearing Away of relationships So what tools are out there? A disclaimer. Ranking: Follower, following, message volume Behavior: When do they Tweet? What can they measure w/Twitter?

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