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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

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Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. The campaign.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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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. 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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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

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photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. functionality. " Web 2.0,

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

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Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. It is important to use video, photos, and audio. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. Niche content. Blogs are connected - we're talking about a blogosphere. Personality is important.

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

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Photo by 3E by found via FlickrLeech Britt Bravo encourages us to step away from the computer this Thanksgiving. Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities.

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