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?

Tag 100

Tag Discussion Folksonomy Taxonomy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

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. Source: Powerhouse Museum.

Museum 50

Museum Tag Folksonomy Technorati 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. and if I could only search as tags, I wouldn???t People search differently than they tag. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman

Tag 50

Tag Bookmarking Delicious Folksonomy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. Some tools: A tool I hadn't seen was Zniff.com which is a search engine based on spurl tags - lets you do a search on the content of web pages. Technorati Tag: nptech. Shimon showed frassle.net.

Tag 50

Tag Taxonomy Folksonomy Delicious 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

The fact is, these are powerful tools that are reshaping the way people use the Internet, just as the Search Engine did a few years ago. Eventually, you will be taking this stuff for granted, just like a text search on Google. This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. tags: tagging , nptech , web2.0

Tag 40

Tag Bookmarking Delicious Folksonomy 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us And, I think that there is a lot that the nptech field can get from using Web 2.0 At this point, I use Web 2.0

Web 100

Web Folksonomy AJAX Hype 100