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How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

Museum 2.0

This post explains that project and suggests a process by which you could approach this kind of “virtual-to-real” design. Why are folksonomies useful? Ideas design. Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. Is this a useful process for you? What’s missing?

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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?

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You're Doing That Wrong! Rule of Thumb

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). What does social design look like in these new communities?

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Social Bookmarking Conversation Continues While Inventing New Words

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Well, good interface design helps " geeks-have-nots " more easily use these tools. The holy grail for me (someone who works with nonprofits) would be a well designed interface for del.icio.us. They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Conclusion.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You simply register with a social bookmarking site, typically a free service, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags of your choice, and designate your individual bookmarks as public or private. There are different ways you can design this project, but this is a very simple approach that you can build on later. s a folksonomy.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. So, what’s on tap? Then, I’ll talk about RSS and XML.

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