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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Second, Tagging also allows social groups to form around similarities of interests and points of view. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ??? -- 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.

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits. If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. The stream of interesting knowledge that comes out of it ??? A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and yet as you say the tool is also for an individual to help remember where something is, as a business going forward how will you balance the individual versus the social/group? t feel there was necessarily tension between individual and the group. ???You and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Schachter didn???t Schachter, ???Exactly,

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. A number of nonprofit groups use Digg as a way to generate interest and traffic in their content - even it doesn't make to the top of the home page. To get a zeitgeist of nptech. Digg it here ).

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. You probably noticed that about my tag stream. s a folksonomy. Act 1: The Problem.