Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 I’m hoping that will provide some very interesting things to blog about over then next few weeks, as I regain my footing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The meat of the report is an interview with David Weinberger on why Tagging Matters.David Weinberger has thought through the many ways tagging changes people???s folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Why are folksonomies useful? Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Features: Schachter watches how people use (and abuse) the system and makes changes based on that. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.??? Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re re the poster child for Web 2.0 t use the word ???folksonomy.

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