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Social Bookmarking Conversation Continues While Inventing New Words

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"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. " Well, good interface design helps " geeks-have-nots " more easily use these tools. other than a "pretty face."

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

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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. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded. Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening.

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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. either as a category of stuff or as a retrieval tool."

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

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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. tools (like flickr Tag Fight.

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

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David G suggested to me that we should be posting our public bloglines subscriptions to delicious, another tool introduced during the NTC Tag You're It Session. is a social bookmarking tool. So, I was curious to see how bookmarking tools have evolved. For those of you are not ubergeeks ( I'm not ), del.icio.us

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. t be bookmarked.

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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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