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If I could do the NpTech Tag Over Again.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. At first, tagging (bookmarking) was used for individual use, and then it started being more social and more as a means to broadcast information. The NPTech tag is used on del.icio.us

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. For example, taxonomy. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. Act 1: The Problem. 2) Bookmarks can???t Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources.