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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This can then potentially lead to finding another person who has similar interests or shares a similar vocabulary, and this is one of Vander Wal's key points concerning what he considers to be the value of folksonomy over taxonomy: that groups of people with a similar vocabulary can function as a kind of 'human filter' for each other.