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

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. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

You get more out of the system when the motivation is selfish. so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. For example, taxonomy. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. read_later,???

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

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