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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. NpTech Tag Summary of Conversations: Jan 26, 2006 If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. I found that idea exciting!

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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.