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. keyword to use.

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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? How are they different from taxonomies? 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

report led me to post on the concept of 'collabuary' raised in the report, which prompted Stephen Downes to comment in reply , trying to distinguish between folksonomies and collabuaries (which he thinks isn't a useful term; it just means 'vocabulary' or 'taxonomy'). A link to a Web 2.0 Some others disagree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 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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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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