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Great Summary of Folksonomies and Museums Thread

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the Museums/Computers list, there has been a vigorous discussion about folksonomies and G??nter Technorati Tags: art , museums , net2 , tag , nptech , ict , ngo , folksonomy Stop in, stay awhile, and hang out. nter Waibel has done an excellent job of summarizing it.

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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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?

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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Right now Technorati picks up the RSS for a tag. For example, we get 15 million hits a day and only 1 million were hits from Technorati. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. Technorati Tag: nptech. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up. Shimon showed frassle.net.

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy. Technorati Tag: nptech I wondered whether there was a Dummie's Guide available on someone's blog or if so, how the hell I would ever find it.

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Tags and Web2.0

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. When you look at how others have tagged it, you will see the tag nptech commonly used. Now you know that lots of folks tag articles about non-profits and technology as nptech. tags: tagging , nptech , web2.0 But wait, there's more. Online event.

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