Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The reports gives us a demographic snap shot of who is tagging now ("Classic early adopters, people under 40" - guess I'm not a classic early adopter). folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny Those patterns are called ???folksonomies???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data. Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. In fact, it reinforces the perception that it's just a geeky tool for early adopters. Sometimes these folks also need a method to share their bookmarks with other staff members in the organization or at remote sites.

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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. Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption." " Web 2.0,

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