Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. In the world of museums, tagging is of great interest to people in the collections world. Why are folksonomies useful? Projects Core Museum 2.0 What’s missing?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Do you want to become a community nexus? into their repertoire?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

The ones most often mentioned by members of the nonprofit technology community include this short list: Del.icio.us. Tagging and social bookmarking make it easy to share what you know with others or a community by simply exposing your delicious url. s a folksonomy. Tagging in Art Museums. For example, I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Tagging " Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy " has been making the rounds on various nonprofit technology lists, particularly in the library and museum communities. Jon Stahl, of OneNorthWest, enjoys 15 minutes of Web video fame in an interview about plone.

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