Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy??? folksonomy??? By aggregating the results of folksonomy production it is possible to see how additional value can be created. keyword to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

asks: "Is there any living, breathing example of a taxonomic approach working (scaling) to keep-up with the hyper-efficiency we see in peer-production systems? " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. I'm being quite serious here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Twitter, however, is distinctive in that it reserves its own name for its tagging system; "hashtags." Use tags to not only find content but to identify individuals or organizations who are creating or sharing useful information and, in the case of Twitter, to engage in actual real time conversations or tweetchats.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com: "A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about folksonomies — Web projects that let users “tag” items with keywords and create their own collaborative categorization systems. And to be sure, there have been plenty of folksonomic success stories.

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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? The library created a book drop for every tag. Sounds complicated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. And Jonathon Colman created the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. s a folksonomy.

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