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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious.

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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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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. The fact is, these are powerful tools that are reshaping the way people use the Internet, just as the Search Engine did a few years ago.

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. " "Internal delicious" would be very useful (earch person on staff has their tagged bookmarks and you could easiliy access it). Shimon showed frassle.net.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Social Bookmarking.