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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More importantly, have that filtered product available easily to those without API programming skills or a low-tolerance to information overload. 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.

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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Social Bookmarking Conversation Continues While Inventing New Words

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People who are on the other side of the digital divide in terms of technical skill and access to using computers regularly and are confused and turned off by uber-geek interfaces like del.icio.us). They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies.