Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 6, 2007
" There is a section about tagging. 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.
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. social network and community sites. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 22, 2005
Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 24, 2006
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. A tag is a user???s
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. To translate into your time zone, use the World Time Clock.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 26, 2005
Future of Tagging ??? You might tag it with ???read_later,??? 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. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.???
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