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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Because I'm thinking about tagging from the perspective of online communities of practice, I found this bit in the report interesting. I'm very interested in the how communities form, the behaviors, the ecosystem of the community as well as the practical how tos. folksonomy??? keyword to use. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry.

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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. social network and community sites. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

by Iulian Commanescu The definitions are fluid when it comes to Web 2.0. He selected some definitions from the Internet. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Enterprise can mean one thing in the business community or it can mean Star Trek. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags. 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

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. Act 2: Definitions. But first, some definitions. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. s a folksonomy. That's enough meta for now. Introduction.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

that I will highlight, I’ll give you a short definition of what Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 So, what’s on tap?

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