Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

via Stephen Downes who points to a very good report capturing some of the main ideas behind Web 2.0 What caught my eye was the title of the report, What Is Web 2.0? Because I'm thinking about tagging from the perspective of online communities of practice, I found this bit in the report interesting. folksonomy???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. The report also includes an interview with David Weinberger who on his blog wonders how many taggers it takes for tagging to become a vital web resources? Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

" Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. " In an earlier summary , a key theme emerged -- the ways that folksonomy and taxonomy can produce best of both worlds results. full report here ) An analysis on the blog is forthcoming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 In many fields, this isn't a big issue since blogs are used to report news--and old news is not as useful as new news. spirit) that is driven by your interests and site use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

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. So, the resulting report should be fascinating. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Keep the overall museum mission in mind and report on the ways your Web 2.0 Do you want to become a community nexus? Start working the social network sites. Do you want visitors to contribute to the classification and presentation of your artifacts? activities support that mission.

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