Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2007

Gavin's Digital Diner gave us a thoughtful post about the pros/cons of taxonomy versus folksonomy, and the quality (or lack of) in user-generated content. What purpose do folksonomies serve? Some philosophical problems with Folksonomy." " article published in D-Lib in November by Elaine Peterson.

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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. Can you even design it?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. As the article Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging suggests, "be a lemming" and follow what others are doing which can also help you discover more specialized, niche tags. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. Reilly now has a link that lets people bookmark an article into delicious ( see here for example ). You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.??? Weinberger started the next question off with ???You???re re the poster child for Web 2.0 t use the word ???folksonomy.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. Del.icio.us , as the article points out, is the mother of all social bookmarking sites. This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. social bookmarking. Look it up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I like the article and diagram so much, I included it in the screencast. This article will give you a more detailed description of the benefits: Tagging Gives Web Human Meaning. s a folksonomy. You can read more about how tagging makes knowledge management a more social experience in this paper by Rahmi Sinha , researcher.

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