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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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." It's kind of fun! Taxonomy won! No surprise.

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Life, Times, and Context of the NpTech Tag: An Informal Discussion/Reflection Online at CpSquared

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. It's an opportunity for some reflection about what the story means. Want to join in the fun? What do we see happening beforehand or afterwards?).

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Virtual Worlds and Video Games Ian Bogost takes some of the fun out of video games -- and replaces it with opinion with his "playable editorial cartoons."

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. s a folksonomy. So, come up with a few standard tags. t get bogged down ???