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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

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So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy. Rather than knowledge ending where the miscellaneous begins, now it's beginning with the miscellaneous. (In He emailed a link where they will be available for a few days.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. His reasons why tagging matters: First, tagging lets us organize the vastness of the Web -- and even our email, as Gmail has shown -- using the categories that matter to us as individuals.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. One of the reasons that I tag stuff is that I want to contribute to the knowledge stream.??? We get 40 emails a day telling us what should go in ???politics??? You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.??? re the poster child for Web 2.0 Schachter, ???Exactly,

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

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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. socially and technically accessible in emerging knowledge societies? NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

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In many smaller organizations, where there are not enough resources for a high-end knowledge management system, people end up using their browser favorites or forward links to one another via email. 3) Links can get lost in email. (4) 4) Knowledge management is a solitary endeavor, not a social one. s a folksonomy.