Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I’ll agree with Gavin, that folksonomies sure are less efficient, and a lot more messy than taxonomies. And, there is one really big thing that using taxonomies miss, that folksonomies get: who is doing the categorizing? Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

grab a fabric patch, write a post, and stitch it together with a technorati tag like "digital.quilt" This project is one of several where museums experimenting with folksonomies. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2005

If you wanted to sell this inside a corporation, show the tag stream for the tag taxonomy. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up. Technorati Tag: nptech. The social processes of tagging - the way the name becomes useful to the group and is one of the benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

He was pleased again to hear about the nptech, too. For example, taxonomy. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items. Right now Technorati picks up the RSS for a tag. For example, we get 15 million hits a day and only 1 million were hits from Technorati. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 berkman

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

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. He writes: I'm talking about taxonomies and tagging, and at the moment I'm planning on ending with three conclusions about the potential significance of tagging: 1. Technorati Tag: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies. Technorati Tags: nptech. My main concern with social bookmarking right now is that there is really only one player -- del.icio.us -- and I don't like a collective resource like that being in private hands.

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