Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. Taxonomy won!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

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. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. and thus of people???that

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Future of Tagging ??? You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.???

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. But personally, tagging and social bookmarking are an essential part of how I use the web. So sure, let's talk about tagging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Today was a crazy whirlwind of too many conference calls, IMs, emails, and trying to get things done (not as successfully as I'd like.) A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

David G suggested to me that we should be posting our public bloglines subscriptions to delicious, another tool introduced during the NTC Tag You're It Session. 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.

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