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???

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. So tags can be a great way to encourage blogging about your issues. " Ruby suggests there are two main reasons why bloggers use tags: 1. Other bloggers do it, and 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Well, at least I started off the morning with some vigorous cardio exercise at the gym -- a killer spin class before I logged onto a conference call to talk about the NpTechTag issues with NpTechers today. The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. I found that idea exciting!

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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. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. He got in touch with me last week to discuss some ideas for the article and asked me to respond to a few questions. Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Most of the time this blog focuses on individual aspects of 2.0

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