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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. Tagging lets us organize the Net our way.

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

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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.