Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. Taxonomy won!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

both Nancy White (via the for: option in delicious) and Michele Martin (via email) sent me the link to the recent Pew Internet report on tagging. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. Tagging lets us organize the Net our way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media has written an excellent post on " Why Nonprofits Should Use Tags." " Ruby suggests there are two main reasons why bloggers use tags: 1. they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. So tags can be a great way to encourage blogging about your issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

The session begain with an overview of some of the familiar services that are using tagging. There was also a look at the differences between spurl, furl, and delicious in terms of clusters, related tags, bookmarking widgets, private tags, etc. Tagging from the point of view of taggers. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Future of Tagging ??? You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. Who is tagging? There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. 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. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. or more like web 1.0?)

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