Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? 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. social network and community sites. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Guidelines Nptech Folksonomy Tag 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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Nptech Conference Taxonomy Folksonomy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking. More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy?

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Tag Internet Report Folksonomy 56