Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. This post explains that project and suggests a process by which you could approach this kind of “virtual-to-real” design. Why are folksonomies useful?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging can be a great activity for volunteers, as it provides an opportunity to volunteer virtually by adding tags to the digital content your organization has on photo or video sharing sites such as Flickr and YouTube. " UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. 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. session during the Legal Services Conference Technology Initiative Grant Conference. Michael Hoffman from See3 is worried.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

And this year it may very well be virtual volunteering. Jayne Cravens has a great piece on the topic here and you find an excellent how-to article for using SKYPE with virtual volunteers here. The article offers some clear explanations of taxonomies and folksonomies, but goes on to give many reasons why you should dislike folksonomies.

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