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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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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Source: Powerhouse Museum.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening.

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. and if I could only search as tags, I wouldn???t People search differently than they tag. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Right now Technorati picks up the RSS for a tag. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman

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Tagging is Fabulous! Tagging is Crap!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Technorati Tag: nptech. Shimon showed frassle.net.

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Tags and Web2.0

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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