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? How are they different from taxonomies? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. social network and community sites. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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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. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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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 spirit) that is driven by your interests and site use. I'm painfully aware of the fact that 60% of you are coming here for the first time and may not be getting what you want. What would you be thrilled to find here?

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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

MAY 1, 2005

Or waste time hunting through all those thousands of resources that you bookmarked and were locked in hierachical structure. So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy. " Thank you John whoever you are!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. For example, taxonomy. 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.??? re the poster child for Web 2.0

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