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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via Stephen Downes who points to a very good report capturing some of the main ideas behind Web 2.0 Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education." The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy???

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. I found that idea exciting! Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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