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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.??? taxonomies.??? More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? 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. There is an interest in a community filtering concept.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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