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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

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?

Guidelines

Guidelines Nptech Folksonomy Tag

How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. I’ll come back to it at the end to demonstrate how it maps to the example. First, some background on tagging. Tagging is a term that refers to people assigning keywords (“tags”) to things.

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Examples Design Folksonomy Virtual

NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

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