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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. It is not a book with pages, but it is about relationships. . Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Conclusion.

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Tags and Web2.0

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. There's a great deal of esoteric talk about tagging to be found out there - but I'd like to take this space to introduce new users to the technology. social bookmarking.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. s a folksonomy. Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. Here are the examples I showed you in the screencast, using the tag ??? sharpie.??? t get bogged down ???

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. What I’ll do in these posts is first explain a bit about one particular aspect of Web 2.0, Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0 is quite good, so if you want more detail, certainly go there.

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