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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You get more out of the system when the motivation is selfish. so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. For example, taxonomy. What are you going to do as the system gets larger???? Features: Schachter watches how people use (and abuse) the system and makes changes based on that.

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was already very interested in automation at this point and built a small content management system for the purpose of publishing those bits. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology. Technorati Tags: nptech.