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NpTech Tag Discussion: Analysis of Tags Used With NpTech - Thank you Chris!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. I'm being quite serious here.

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's an example of "social search" in action. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? when we search for tagged items.

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Guest Post by Laura Norvig: Friendfeed As Nonprofit Technology Water Cooler

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. Every aspect of Friendfeed is realtime, including the powerful search. for the last five years or so).

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

Museum 2.0

Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. With good reason.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It That's enough meta for now.