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 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? How do we see a tagging project fitting into other events, projects, or developments? How long did the NPtech thing take to get going?

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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 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. 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. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Last night I attended Berkman special evening event titled ??? He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. For example, taxonomy. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman Download schachter.wmv. Future of Tagging ??? The room was packed and it wasn??? What irks you????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s s a folksonomy. Browse the NpTech tag. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Here are the examples I showed you in the screencast, using the tag ??? sharpie.??? For an excellent primer on tagging, see Andy Carvin???s s PBS LearningNow essay.

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