Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 6, 2007
via Stephen Downes who points to a very good report capturing some of the main ideas behind Web 2.0 Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education." 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???
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? 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
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
That 1% will add a layer of meaning (or "semantics," if you prefer the way that sounds) that will seed enough innovation and connectedness of ideas???and folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny and thus of people???that
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
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.
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,
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