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How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

Museum 2.0

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? Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

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. What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Virtual Worlds and Video Games Ian Bogost takes some of the fun out of video games -- and replaces it with opinion with his "playable editorial cartoons." 20 practices.

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New Feature! and the Taxonomy of the Museum 2.0 Collection

Museum 2.0

Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 Otherwise this becomes just another collection gathering (virtual) dust. 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.

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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