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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr. Free Flickr Pro Account Through TechSoup. What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection?

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking. Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Museum Collections and Tagging

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Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ??? Source: Powerhouse Museum.

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

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The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. tools (like flickr Tag Fight.

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

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Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit. 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. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site.

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Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com

AFP Blog

Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com: "A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about folksonomies — Web projects that let users “tag” items with keywords and create their own collaborative categorization systems. Sites like Flickr (which lets users post and tag images) and del.icio.us (which does the same.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. 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. photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing.

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