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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The reports suggests that tagging is poised to go mainstream because of more and more sites, like Google and Yahoo, make it easier to tag. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As mentioned in the screencast, Del.icio.us , which was purchased by Yahoo, is a good place to start. A few nonprofits are using socialbookmarking to track resources or follow particular topics for trend analysis for strategic planning. s a folksonomy. It has a critical mass of users, is fairly easy to use, and it is free.