Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

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. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

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? Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.???

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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'). Resources included in the wiki with podcast. A link to a Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Another good use of social bookmarking sites is to create group resource lists for collaborative bookmarking. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

In terms of additional data, perhaps some visualization of the taggers -- how many taggers, how many items tagged, who is the first tagger of a resource, etc. Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. What they tag as important and why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

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. I've introduced del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. That stream of tags that comes through everyday is very rich and a valuable resource. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.??? Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re re the poster child for Web 2.0 Schachter jumped in with, ???I

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