Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 22, 2005
Source: Powerhouse Museum. 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. think flickr and del.icio.us ???
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.
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Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. As you read the story in the next few paragraphs, consider the four-step approach in the image above. Why are folksonomies useful? Projects Core Museum 2.0 What’s missing?
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. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. into their repertoire?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 13, 2007
Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text. s a folksonomy. Tagging in Art Museums. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. But first, some definitions. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined.
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