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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?
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? But give it time.
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Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Tagging is a term that refers to people assigning keywords (“tags”) to things. In the world of museums, tagging is of great interest to people in the collections world. Why are folksonomies useful? Tags can allow people to search for artifacts via the real words they’d use to describe those things.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 26, 2005
Clearly the people in the room were del.icio.us 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. t describe the content. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. When I took it out, people complained. groupies, including me.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. A number of nonprofit groups use Digg as a way to generate interest and traffic in their content - even it doesn't make to the top of the home page. s announcement of a $28.7
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 13, 2007
How do you create good instructional media in a reasonable amount of time and do a good enough job that helps people learn something by viewing it? Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. People use words that they themselves like to use to categorize things. Maybe it is more like moment capture.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 30, 2007
Are you trying to establish yourself as an up-to-the-minute news source on topics related to your museum’s content? Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Museums need to develop sustainable models for projects that require frequent content updates. Has your tagging system increased overall google hits for the museum?
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