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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

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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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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

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The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Most recently, Marnie Webb created a Yahoo Pipe of the NpTech Feed and runing it through AideRSS to sort it by popularity. As the volume of information increased, weekly summaries were added to the mix.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In many smaller organizations, where there are not enough resources for a high-end knowledge management system, people end up using their browser favorites or forward links to one another via email. Unfortunately, these methods make sharing and managing information resources difficult. url when they ask for additional resources.