Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? Or adding another tag that indicates audience as Allan Benamer has suggested for his manseo search engine?

Tag 100

Tag Discussion Folksonomy Taxonomy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

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. The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. Sort of an emergent taxonomy. social network and community sites.

Guidelines 50

Guidelines Nptech Folksonomy Tag 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. We don’t pay attention to them, and yet, they account for a high percentage of our web traffic.

Game 20

Game Tag Fun NSF 20