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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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The reports suggests that tagging is poised to go mainstream because of more and more sites, like Google and Yahoo, make it easier to tag. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

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nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

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As mentioned in the screencast, Del.icio.us , which was purchased by Yahoo, is a good place to start. s a folksonomy. Browse the NpTech tag. If you want to find out who else uses what social bookmarking service in the nonprofit tech sector, check out Social Source Commons. ll want to read the Del.icio.us t get bogged down ???