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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. How are they different from taxonomies?

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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. perspectives rather than institutional ones.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. 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. 2) Bookmarks can???t Social Bookmarking. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Back in the early days of Web 2.0,

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