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You're Doing That Wrong! Rule of Thumb

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report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree. Can you even design it?

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Why nonprofits should use tags

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they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. since I use it as a teaching tool.) 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. Other bloggers do it, and 2.

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Dummie's Guide To Delicious and Knowledge Beginning With Misc.

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So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy. " His introduction made me feel better and now I can learn and teach this tool too. "Delicious is easy to use, but it lacks any kind of serious documentation.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

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s a folksonomy. Step 3: Teach people how to start bookmarking! This can make trouble down the road if you want to publish your resources to a web site using an RSS. So, come up with a few standard tags. t get bogged down ??? re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s