Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

The NpTech Tag discussion continues. asks: "Is there any living, breathing example of a taxonomic approach working (scaling) to keep-up with the hyper-efficiency we see in peer-production systems? " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. 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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Twitter, however, is distinctive in that it reserves its own name for its tagging system; "hashtags." Solutions for Tagging and Archiving a Discussion List. What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy. Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

The first ten minutes were a discussion between Weinberger and Schachter and then the remaining 70 minutes was wide ranging discussion and q/a: Weinberger : ???There You get more out of the system when the motivation is selfish. so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. and folksonomy.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

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). Today, the Wild Apricot blog continued the discussion about " Should Digg Have A Nonprofit Category?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. Step 1: Discuss Tagging Policy. s a folksonomy. Act 1: The Problem. Tagging can get sloppy ??? spelling errors, verbs v.s. nouns, etc. So, come up with a few standard tags.

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