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

According to the Museum's Web Manager, Sebastion Chan: "The swatchbook has a lot of high resolution public domain (in Aust) fabric swatches available for download. 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. Some tools: A tool I hadn't seen was Zniff.com which is a search engine based on spurl tags - lets you do a search on the content of web pages.

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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. m labeled as the Web 2.0 And, talking about Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is very Web. And, talking about Web 2.0 is Web 2.0 is very Web. re the poster child for Web 2.0 For example, taxonomy. Technorati Use of Delicious Tagged Items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

I had used " Back Flip " back 3-4 years ago when I needed a web-based bookmark tool to publish my bookmarks from the semi-defunct Arts Wire Spiderschool. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The growth of the web and mailing lists was explosive and I was very interested in remaining well informed. Then someone (I really don't remember who) suggested that I go ahead and publish those interesting bits on the web. As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies.

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