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

JANUARY 24, 2007

Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The reports suggests that tagging is poised to go mainstream because of more and more sites, like Google and Yahoo, make it easier to tag. The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? taxonomies.??? robotics???

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

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. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 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. NpTech Conference Call Notes.

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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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