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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won! all you need do is just tag something "NPTECH" and mention "folksonomy." Taxonomy won! No surprise. " my hits have quadrupled.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. t be bookmarked. Bookmarking for a site.

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Tags and Web2.0

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. Eventually, you will be taking this stuff for granted, just like a text search on Google. social bookmarking. Look it up.

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