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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The reports gives us a demographic snap shot of who is tagging now ("Classic early adopters, people under 40" - guess I'm not a classic early adopter). folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Tagging at public sites can give you a sense that you're adding to a shared stream of knowledge.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. " making the point that nonprofit news on Digg gets lost because a) demographics and b) site structure (no specific category.) The question was also discussed over at Social Actions.

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