Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Why are folksonomies useful? As a tangible example, consider the Powerhouse Museum’s collections database.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. Some tools: A tool I hadn't seen was Zniff.com which is a search engine based on spurl tags - lets you do a search on the content of web pages. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. and if I could only search as tags, I wouldn???t People search differently than they 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 t use the word ???folksonomy.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

The fact is, these are powerful tools that are reshaping the way people use the Internet, just as the Search Engine did a few years ago. Eventually, you will be taking this stuff for granted, just like a text search on Google. This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in.

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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 Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

You can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that users have created and saved. s a folksonomy. Use in combination with search. This can make trouble down the road if you want to publish your resources to a web site using an RSS. If you don???t

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 At this point, I use Web 2.0 applications every day. I think Web 2.0, So, what’s on tap?

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