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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 6, 2007
The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy??? folksonomy??? By aggregating the results of folksonomy production it is possible to see how additional value can be created. Vander Wal, 2005).
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! all you need do is just tag something "NPTECH" and mention "folksonomy." Taxonomy won! No surprise. " my hits have quadrupled.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2005
On the Museums/Computers list, there has been a vigorous discussion about folksonomies and G??nter Technorati Tags: art , museums , net2 , tag , nptech , ict , ngo , folksonomy Stop in, stay awhile, and hang out. nter Waibel has done an excellent job of summarizing it.
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?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
Taxonomy Folksonomy Cook Ebook View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: dowjones folksonomy ). That's the powerpoint version - hard to read, so download the PDF - it's more than just eye candy. Here's an interview with her on Read/Write Talk.
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? 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. How are they different from taxonomies?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2007
" Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. " In an earlier summary , a key theme emerged -- the ways that folksonomy and taxonomy can produce best of both worlds results.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? How do you manage the needed iterative, cycles of divergence and convergence to make folksonomies take off? What are some the "best practices" and what are some of the pitfalls? Want to join in the fun?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 22, 2005
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. Source: Powerhouse Museum.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
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. More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny Those patterns are called ???folksonomies??? taxonomies.???
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 24, 2006
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. perspectives rather than institutional ones.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2006
You have to be rather anal or committed or a folksonomy addict or ??? I am convinced it is from a relatively small number of individuals (but bless them for being tag-nostic). m not comparing the tagging rate per conference, but realizing that??? very few people tag. I am not convinced that tagging is anywhere close to a tipping point.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 9, 2006
First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Jumping on any technology bandwagon has its pitfalls, and this one is no different. So, what’s on tap? Then, I’ll talk about RSS and XML. These are, I think, the two most important aspects of Web 2.0
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 7, 2005
they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media has written an excellent post on " Why Nonprofits Should Use Tags." " Ruby suggests there are two main reasons why bloggers use tags: 1. Other bloggers do it, and 2. So tags can be a great way to encourage blogging about your issues.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 1, 2006
particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, and the ways it’s made itself into the nonprofit sector. I think that a lot of Web 2.0,
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
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. NpTech Tag Summary of Conversations: Jan 26, 2006 If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 24, 2007
Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. There is interest is seeing the NpTech Site become a central place to go for information, updates, or whatever is happening with NpTech Tag, not exlusively a place to aggregate nptech tagged items.
AFP Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2007
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. And to be sure, there have been plenty of folksonomic success stories.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Why are folksonomies useful? Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object.
Tech Soup Blog
MAY 26, 2011
What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening. Solutions for Tagging and Archiving a Discussion List. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr. Free Flickr Pro Account Through TechSoup. You're It! 40 Hashtags for Social Good. 400+ Twitter Chat Schedule.
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. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 26, 2005
A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. " Main reason is if the tag are going to be useful to YOU - the tag should express your way of thinking not the majority. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 9, 2005
They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. Sometimes these folks also need a method to share their bookmarks with other staff members in the organization or at remote sites. To illustrate social bookmarking, you have to use a technology-related tag.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 26, 2005
and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.??? Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re re the poster child for Web 2.0 Schachter jumped in with, ???I t use the word ???folksonomy. Something easy to do that let's you recall the item.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 1, 2005
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. I wondered whether there was a Dummie's Guide available on someone's blog or if so, how the hell I would ever find it.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 7, 2008
Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2005
This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. When you bookmark a site, delicious will tell you how many others have also bookmarked that item. If you click on the reference to those others, it will show you all those citations -- anonymously -- and you can see how each person tagged it.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Conclusion. User generated content - Web 2.0 means involving the user - it's beyond the platform.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 26, 2007
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. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
NOVEMBER 15, 2006
What you are describing are the pros/cons and differences between taxonomies and folksonomies, centralized versus decentralized, controlled vocabularies versus tags versus search. With the CSE, there are NO artificial distinctions between a taxonomy and a folksonomy. 48) { this.width = 48; this.height = 48; } ; if (this.width On 11.15.06
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 13, 2007
s a folksonomy. This can make trouble down the road if you want to publish your resources to a web site using an RSS. So, come up with a few standard tags. t get bogged down ??? re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Also, people can add whatever additional tags they want so they can remember the item as well as a description.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 30, 2007
Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Do you want to become a community nexus? Start working the social network sites. Do you want visitors to contribute to the classification and presentation of your artifacts? It’s not acceptable to say “we want to do it all.”
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 24, 2006
Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. Read David Weinberger's reply (Berkman Fellow and author of an article called " Why Tagging Matters ") to the article here.
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