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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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??? folksonomy??? By aggregating the results of folksonomy production it is possible to see how additional value can be created. keyword to use. Vander Wal, 2005).

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Twitter, however, is distinctive in that it reserves its own name for its tagging system; "hashtags." Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr.

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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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