Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

The one piece of information that was new to me was this: Folksonomy versus collabulary One outcome from the practice of tagging has been the rise of the ???folksonomy??? folksonomy??? By aggregating the results of folksonomy production it is possible to see how additional value can be created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? Gavin's post does a great job explaining the definitions and the advantages of a taxonomy over a folksonomy. He observes that folksonomies are in the early stages of development. How are they different from taxonomies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

In terms of additional data, perhaps some visualization of the taggers -- how many taggers, how many items tagged, who is the first tagger of a resource, etc. Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. How people are making sense of the tag streams.

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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. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site.

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