Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

I share a lot of information online, but if it is something I really want to be personal, I take advantage of the settings in different applications and mark things as private or hidden. When you save the bookmark, you add the tags you want associated with it, and those can be new or ones you’ve used before.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. I'm an information addict. I'm constantly looking for information related to work and I a big bookmarker. I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I admit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. At first, tagging (bookmarking) was used for individual use, and then it started being more social and more as a means to broadcast information. The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. Fabulous: Tagging allows you to categorize information without being forced to use a pre-determined vocabulary and allows other to easily contribute content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

is a social bookmarking tool. I had used " Back Flip " back 3-4 years ago when I needed a web-based bookmark tool to publish my bookmarks from the semi-defunct Arts Wire Spiderschool. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. For example, taxonomy. Delicious feels so social to us, we want to know who else has tagged the information, we want to know who they are.??? t come out with a pleasing way to display the information. t be bookmarked.

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