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Great Summary of Folksonomies and Museums Thread

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It's described as: HangingTogether is a place where some of the staff at RLG, a membership organization of libraries, archives, and museums, can talk about the intersections we see happening between these three different types of institutions. On the Museums/Computers list, there has been a vigorous discussion about folksonomies and G??nter

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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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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. A tag is a user???s

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Catching up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, and the ways it’s made itself into the nonprofit sector. I think that a lot of Web 2.0,

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

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 Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

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To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place. used Microsoft tags placed on supermarket staples such as milk and water and prompted shoppers to donate the value of the items they were shopping for to UNICEF. The campaign. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr.

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

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s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. As mentioned in the screencast, Del.icio.us , which was purchased by Yahoo, is a good place to start. The information is one place. s a folksonomy. Findability.