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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing?

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NpTechTag MetaFeed: 2007 Version 1 - Feed Fixed, Tag Still Broken?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. What purpose do folksonomies serve? How are they different from taxonomies? How are they different from taxonomies? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy."

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. For example, taxonomy. Right now Technorati picks up the RSS for a tag. 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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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I mentioned in the screencast, you can use RSS and javascript to publish your del.icio.us This can make trouble down the road if you want to publish your resources to a web site using an RSS. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s s a folksonomy. Publishing an RSS Feed of Your Bookmarks onto Your Web Site.