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MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place.

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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. social network and community sites. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development.

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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

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. Sometimes these folks also need a method to share their bookmarks with other staff members in the organization or at remote sites. I've introduced del.icio.us

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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. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0

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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. ll make so that site can???t Bookmarking for a site. 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

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