Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

via Stephen Downes who points to a very good report capturing some of the main ideas behind Web 2.0 What caught my eye was the title of the report, What Is Web 2.0? Because I'm thinking about tagging from the perspective of online communities of practice, I found this bit in the report interesting. folksonomy???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. The report also includes an interview with David Weinberger who on his blog wonders how many taggers it takes for tagging to become a vital web resources? taxonomies.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

" Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos. " 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. So, the resulting report should be fascinating. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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