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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! 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. Tagging can get sloppy ???