Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." I ran another googlefight using the word "tagging" instead of the Folksonomy and tagging won! all you need do is just tag something "NPTECH" and mention "folksonomy." Taxonomy won! No surprise. " my hits have quadrupled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns. There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. How people are making sense of the tag streams. still thinking outloud. Who is tagging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking. Tagging at public sites can give you a sense that you're adding to a shared stream of knowledge. Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. Marnie Webb posted this comment: "I think a critical second step for nonprofits is to use RSS to syndicate the tag stream (for lack of a better phrase) onto their own website." Other bloggers do it, and 2.

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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. The stream of interesting knowledge that comes out of it ??? A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. 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

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. The other aspect of delicious is that I can participate in a tag stream that is of interest to me. That stream of tags that comes through everyday is very rich and a valuable resource. One of the reasons that I tag stuff is that I want to contribute to the knowledge stream.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0 functionality.

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