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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. How are they different from taxonomies?

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Social Bookmarking Conversation Continues While Inventing New Words

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

to some nonprofit staff people who are struggling with information overload and managing personal collections of web-based resources they need to do their work. They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. You described JOTS urls-to-tags ratio as impressive (2:1).

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! Unfortunately, these methods make sharing and managing information resources difficult. url when they ask for additional resources. 2) Bookmarks can???