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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In terms of additional data, perhaps some visualization of the taggers -- how many taggers, how many items tagged, who is the first tagger of a resource, etc. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. There is an interest in a community filtering concept. I found that idea exciting!

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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Vander Wal states that the value of a folksonomy is derived from three key data elements: the person tagging, the object being tagged (as an entity), and the tag being attached to that object. From these three data elements you only need two in order to find the third. keyword to use. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry.