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? 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. How are they different from taxonomies?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

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. Source: Powerhouse Museum.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Obviously, the biggest change is the ubiquitous nature of Web 2.0, and the ways it’s made itself into the nonprofit sector. I think that a lot of Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What is some of our thinking related to the NpTech Tag and folksonomies,taxonomies, and social search? How do you manage the needed iterative, cycles of divergence and convergence to make folksonomies take off? What are some the "best practices" and what are some of the pitfalls? Want to join in the fun?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

folksonomies??? -- it's a play on the word ???taxonomies.??? Folksonomies reveal how the public is making sense of things, not just how expert cataloguers think we ought to be thinking. More broadly, some worry that folksonomies can be a type of ???tyranny Those patterns are called ???folksonomies??? taxonomies.???

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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. perspectives rather than institutional ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2005

they value the idea of contributing to a collective folksonomy. Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media has written an excellent post on " Why Nonprofits Should Use Tags." " Ruby suggests there are two main reasons why bloggers use tags: 1. Other bloggers do it, and 2. So tags can be a great way to encourage blogging about your issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

You have to be rather anal or committed or a folksonomy addict or ??? I am convinced it is from a relatively small number of individuals (but bless them for being tag-nostic). m not comparing the tagging rate per conference, but realizing that??? very few people tag. I am not convinced that tagging is anywhere close to a tipping point.

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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

MAY 26, 2005

A great example of a folksonomy is ebay - where a laptop is a notebook. " Main reason is if the tag are going to be useful to YOU - the tag should express your way of thinking not the majority. However, the benefit to exposing the popular terms is that a taxonomy emerges from the bottom up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. There is interest is seeing the NpTech Site become a central place to go for information, updates, or whatever is happening with NpTech Tag, not exlusively a place to aggregate nptech tagged items.

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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. NpTech Tag Summary of Conversations: Jan 26, 2006 If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. Sometimes these folks also need a method to share their bookmarks with other staff members in the organization or at remote sites. To illustrate social bookmarking, you have to use a technology-related tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

and folksonomy.??? folksonomy. 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 Schachter jumped in with, ???I t use the word ???folksonomy. Something easy to do that let's you recall the item.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

If visitors can assign their own tags to artifacts, then we can create visitor-generated folksonomies alongside traditional taxonomies—and people who are searching for content can find artifacts of interest via either path. Why are folksonomies useful? Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? Social Bookmarking and Tagging - Listening. Solutions for Tagging and Archiving a Discussion List. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr. Free Flickr Pro Account Through TechSoup. You're It! 40 Hashtags for Social Good. 400+ Twitter Chat Schedule.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Tough Talk About Tagging - Chronicle.com: "A few years ago, it seemed as if everyone was talking about folksonomies — Web projects that let users “tag” items with keywords and create their own collaborative categorization systems. And to be sure, there have been plenty of folksonomic success stories.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. When you bookmark a site, delicious will tell you how many others have also bookmarked that item. If you click on the reference to those others, it will show you all those citations -- anonymously -- and you can see how each person tagged it.

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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. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Difference between amatuer and professional videographer. . Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Conclusion. User generated content - Web 2.0 means involving the user - it's beyond the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s a folksonomy. This can make trouble down the road if you want to publish your resources to a web site using an RSS. So, come up with a few standard tags. t get bogged down ??? re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Also, people can add whatever additional tags they want so they can remember the item as well as a description.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

Ideally, rather than a taxonomy set by me, we could create a folksonomy (in the Web 2.0 Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. Do you want to become a community nexus? Start working the social network sites. Do you want visitors to contribute to the classification and presentation of your artifacts? It’s not acceptable to say “we want to do it all.”

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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. Read David Weinberger's reply (Berkman Fellow and author of an article called " Why Tagging Matters ") to the article here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2005

So, I spent time browsing through nptech tag that Marnie Web set up and looking at all the urls crossreferenced for tag, tagging, and folksonomy. I wondered whether there was a Dummie's Guide available on someone's blog or if so, how the hell I would ever find it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

First up, after this post, will be an investigation tagging and folksonomies. The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Jumping on any technology bandwagon has its pitfalls, and this one is no different. So, what’s on tap? Then, I’ll talk about RSS and XML. These are, I think, the two most important aspects of Web 2.0

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