Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

The NpTech Tag discussion continues. " Laura Quinn points to Getty Images and says the have an incredibly successful taxonomy,"working against a collection of at least several hundred thousand photos. " Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Holly at NTEN has a post titled " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy." Taxonomy won! Holly also posted a response to the How Are You Using the NpTech Tag with " Taxonomies are for Chumps " post. all you need do is just tag something "NPTECH" and mention "folksonomy." No surprise.

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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. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not? A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. Obviously, it ain't no taxonomy and it shouldn't substitute for one. I admit it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

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. A traditional rigorous taxonomy scheme includes "synoynm ring" - basically, just a bunch of synonyms mapped together - why not use that to standardize the tags(i.e.

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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. Deborah Finn's thoughts on the NpTech Tag Mashup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

taxonomies.??? Hmm.how is a tag thesaurus different a taxonomy? This is interesting to me because of the analysis of the NPTECH tag. And, by looking over the public field of tags, we can see which tags are most frequently used and how they relate. Those patterns are called ???folksonomies??? in some circumstances.

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